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  • ‘We’re making harm reduction cool’: overdose reversal Narcan becomes a rave essential

    Friday, 31 December 2021
    ‘We’re making harm reduction cool’: overdose reversal Narcan becomes a rave essential

    Fentanyl testing strips as well as the opioid-reversal drug naloxone (commonly known as Narcan) are becoming the sine qua non of the party scene, distributed everywhere cultural denizens hang out: ni ...

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  • US saw 100,000 drug overdose deaths in one year amid pandemic, CDC says

    Wednesday, 17 November 2021
    US saw 100,000 drug overdose deaths in one year amid pandemic, CDC says

    The estimated number of drug overdose deaths in the US during a 12-month period ending in April rose by 28.5% compared with the same period the year before, according to new provisional data released ...

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  • 2020 was S.F.’s deadliest year for overdoses, by far

    Friday, 15 January 2021
    2020 was S.F.’s deadliest year for overdoses, by far

    San Francisco lost a total of 699 people to overdoses last year, a 59% rise from 2019, according to new data released by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. That number is more than three times ...

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  • Overdoses are killing more people in Western Canada than COVID-19. B.C. has a bold new plan

    Friday, 25 September 2020
    Overdoses are killing more people in Western Canada than COVID-19. B.C. has a bold new plan

    Canada’s other epidemic, the opioids overdose crisis, is more deadly than ever this year. Deaths in British Columbia hit new highs over the spring, including a monthly record of 181 illicit drug toxi ...

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    safe supply | naloxone | opioids | fentanyl | canada | drug consumption rooms | harm reduction | decriminalization
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  • Secret US drug injection site shows how supervision could save lives

    Wednesday, 08 July 2020
    Secret US drug injection site shows how supervision could save lives

    For five years, a secret supervised drug injection site has operated in the US, allowing drug users to inject more than 10,000 times in a sterile, protected environment. The illegal operation is mode ...

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    scientific research | naloxone | opioids | drug consumption rooms | US drug policy
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  • Why overdose deaths have fallen here - despite more overdose

    Tuesday, 14 January 2020
    Why overdose deaths have fallen here - despite more overdose

    Roughly 66 times every single day in British Columbia, someone calls 911 for a suspected drug overdose. And 66 times every day, an operator answers one of those calls, assesses the situation, and dis ...

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  • Canada’s drug crisis has a solution. Politicians don’t like it

    Sunday, 29 September 2019
    Canada’s drug crisis has a solution. Politicians don’t like it

    A recent study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Addiction, found that a trio of policies adopted to combat the opioid overdose epidemic saved, combined, an estimated 3,030 lives in the Canadia ...

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    safe supply | naloxone | opioids | fentanyl | heroin | law enforcement | canada | heroin assisted treatment | drug consumption rooms | US drug policy | harm reduction | decriminalization
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  • Boom in overdose-reversing drug is tied to fewer drug deaths

    Tuesday, 06 August 2019
    Boom in overdose-reversing drug is tied to fewer drug deaths

    Prescriptions of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone are soaring, and experts say that could be a reason overdose deaths have stopped rising for the first time in nearly three decades. The number of ...

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  • When harm reduction expansion stifles activism: A lesson from Europe

    Tuesday, 23 July 2019
    When harm reduction expansion stifles activism: A lesson from Europe

    Western European harm reduction presents an interesting paradox. On the one hand, the widespread availability of effective harm reduction programs is laudable. Drug-related disease rates are low. Ove ...

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    activism | belgium | naloxone | UK | netherlands | switzerland | heroin assisted treatment | drug consumption rooms | harm reduction
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  • Tens of thousands of Americans die each year from opioid overdoses

    Saturday, 23 February 2019
    Tens of thousands of Americans die each year from opioid overdoses

    Drugs now kill about 70,000 Americans every year—more than car crashes or guns (both 39,000), more than AIDS did at the height of its epidemic (42,000), and more than all the American soldiers killed ...

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  • A promising way to help drug users is ‘severely lacking’ around the world, report says

    Tuesday, 11 December 2018
    A promising way to help drug users is ‘severely lacking’ around the world, report says

    Global funding for harm reduction programs is in “crisis,” according to the latest Global State of Harm Reduction report, potentially threatening the effectiveness of HIV, hepatitis and drug overdose ...

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    naloxone | HIV/AIDS | drug consumption rooms | harm reduction
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  • Is Sweden's zero-tolerance approach to drugs a failing model?

    Thursday, 17 May 2018
    Is Sweden's zero-tolerance approach to drugs a failing model?

    Sweden is accustomed to being praised for its forward-thinking approach, but there's one area where many feel it lies behind the curve. The country's "zero tolerance" policy towards drugs is an incre ...

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    norway | naloxone | heroin | sweden | law enforcement | denmark | prohibition | human rights | cannabis | drug consumption rooms | portugal | harm reduction | decriminalization
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  • A huge step backward on opioids

    Wednesday, 24 January 2018
    A huge step backward on opioids

    The latest statistics on the overdose crisis -- roughly 64,000 deaths in the United States in 2016 -- also reveal that fentanyl and other synthetic opioids are now the driving force behind US overdos ...

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  • Drug injection rooms a resounding success

    Tuesday, 26 May 2015
    Drug injection rooms a resounding success

    The drug injection rooms ('fixerum') that opened for customers some two and a half years ago in Denmark have been hailed as a resounding success. Out of the 355,255 injections that have taken place i ...

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  • Wider use of antidote could lower overdose deaths by nearly 50%

    Monday, 04 February 2013
    Wider use of antidote could lower overdose deaths by nearly 50%

    Around 15,000 people die each year by overdosing on opioid pain relievers such as Oxycontin, a rate that has more than tripled since 1990. The government has tried numerous strategies to reduce the d ...

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Drugs in the News

  • Senate Democrats roll out long-awaited bill to legalize marijuana
    21.07.2022
  • Council of State opposes plan to ban sale of laughing gas
    18.07.2022
  • Brussels Mayor: ‘Police repression does not work, decriminalise cannabis now’
    18.07.2022
  • Luxembourg leads the charge for a new European drug policy
    17.07.2022
  • Results of cultivated cannabis experiment won't be ready in 2024: Ministers
    08.07.2022
  • Hundreds of thousands of Canadians could see their drug possession records disappear
    04.07.2022
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