Items tagged with harm reduction
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Questions for Mr. Costa [22.05.2008] | During IHRA's 19th international conference this month the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) recorded a film which poses a series of questions t ... |
Harm Reduction 2008 [12.05.2008] | Monday, 12 May 2008 The International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harms is taking place in Barcelona, May 11-15. UN Special Rapporteu ... |
Human Rights, Health and Harm Reduction [11.05.2008] | ‘Human Rights, Health and Harm Reduction: States’ Amnesia and Parallel Universes’ is the transcript of a keynote speech delivered by Professor Paul H ... |
Latin America needs a new drug policy approach [02.05.2008] | Friday, 2 May 2008 TNI’s Martin Jelsma participated in the inaugural meeting in Rio de Janeiro of the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democrac ... |
The current state of drug policy debate [30.04.2008] | Martin Jelsma, from the Transnational Institute, prepared an analysis for the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy, explaining the drug p ... |
Police, Harm Reduction, and HIV [01.04.2008] | Injecting drug users (IDUs) account for the largest share of HIV infections in China, Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, and much of Southeast Asia. Harm ... |
Decriminalization of cannabis [28.03.2008] | An interesting essay discussing the case for decriminalization of cannabis use appeared in the March 2008 issue of Current Opinion in Psychiatry. The ... |
Commenting Mr. Costa's opening remarks [21.03.2008] | The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) made some interesting video news items on the Commission on Narcotic Drugs. In this one leading civils soc ... |
Statements at 2008 CND [17.03.2008] | Several government and UN officials as well as civil society organisations made interesting statements at the 51st session of the Commission on Narco ... |
The INCB on Harm Reduction [07.03.2008] | As in years past, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) highlights the problem of HIV epidemics fuelled by injection drug use in its 2007 ... |
Closed to Reason [21.02.2008] | A report published in March 2007 by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and the Open Society Institute Public Health Program, strongly criticises the ... |
Unique in International Relations? [21.02.2008] | In a new report released in February 2008 by the International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA), the INCB comes in for some heavy criticism for bein ... |
Flexibility of treaty provisions [20.02.2008] | In a confidential and authoritative memorandum to the INCB, UNODC legal experts argue that most harm reduction measures are in fact acceptable under ... |
Open letter to CND [20.02.2008] | We respectfully urge you to support syringe exchange, opiate substitution treatment and other harm reduction approaches demonstrated to reduce HIV ri ... |
Washington Post Editorial on UN and harm reduction [20.02.2008] | The Bush administration is quietly extending a policy that undermines the global battle against AIDS. The State Department's new leadership needs to e ... |
Resources [01.02.2008] | Other resources on the United Nations and Harm Reduction |
Cocaine paste and cannabis in the field of mental health in Chile [26.02.2007] | Clinical observations and scientific evidence - The use of some drugs in Chile remains silenced in official discourses, making it important to clinic ... |
Beyond Punitive Prohibition [01.03.2006] | The primary objective of this paper is to evaluate whether the drug conventions permit states to experiment with alternatives to the punitive prohibi ... |
Legislating for Health and Human Rights [01.01.2006] | The widespread legal, social and political ramifications of the HIV/AIDS epidemic make it necessary to review and reform a broad range of laws. Some ... |
The UN and Harm Reduction - Revisited [01.04.2005] | The US pressure on the UNODC to withdraw support from needle exchange and other harm reduction approaches backfired at the 48th session of the CND in ... |
The United Nations and Harm Reduction [10.03.2005] | In March 2005 the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) will meet in Vienna. The confrontation between zero-tolerance ideologists and harm reduction ... |
Displacement of Canada’s largest public illicit drug market in response to a police crackdown [10.05.2004] | Law enforcement is often used in an effort to reduce the social, community and health-related harms of illicit drug use by injection drug users (IDUs ... |
Measures to reduce harm [01.03.2004] | The conventions do not contain, refer to or define “harm reduction”. The three conventions refer to measures against drug abuse. Article 38 of the 19 ... |
European report on drug consumption rooms [01.02.2004] | Drug consumption rooms have been established in several countries, where confirmed drug users are allowed to consume their drugs in hygienic conditio ... |
HIV/AIDS and Drugs Misuse in Russia [01.09.2003] | This report breaks new ground in the HIV/AIDS prevention literature by reviewing harm reduction initiatives and programmes in the context of Russian ... |
Evaluation of the work of drug consumption rooms in the Federal Republic of Germany [01.07.2003] | Besides the classic approaches (drug counselling centres, therapy for substance abuse) there exist reform and pilot projects to develop alternative w ... |
Global Trends. Lessons from Vienna [20.06.2003] | Martin Jelsma analysed the 2003 UNGASS mid-term review and drew some important conclusions for the 10-year review in 2008: "Alliances have to be cons ... |
Drug Consumption Rooms [01.04.2003] | The first drug consumption room for opiate-dependent persons in Germany was opened in Frankfort on the Main in December 1994. In March 2003 there wer ... |
Drugs in the UN system [01.04.2003] | The "international community" presented an apparent unanimity in its endorsement of prohibitive drug control at the United Nations General Assembly S ... |
The Erratic Crusade of the INCB [18.02.2003] | In the Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2002 that was released on February 26, the president of the Board, Dr. Philip O. Emafo ... |
Flexibility of treaty provisions [30.09.2002] | In a confidential and authoritative memorandum to the INCB, UNODC legal experts argue that most harm reduction measures are in fact acceptable under ... |
Recent developments regarding drug law and policy in Germany and the European Community [21.03.2002] | Recent developments in drug policy can be regarded as taking place in stages based on certain changeable paradigms: the abstinence paradigm, the medi ... |
Alternative Development and Drug Control [08.01.2002] | What can Alternative Development interventions realistically hope to achieve, given the growing demand for illicit drugs and the continuing prevalenc ... |
Crack Heads and Roots Daughters [01.01.2002] | An ethnographic study of women and drug use in inner city neighborhoods in Kingston, Jamaica, revealed that cannabis is commonly used in conjunction ... |
Reviewing legal aspects of substitution treatment at international level [01.08.2000] | Treatment for drug addiction was seen as a measure to reduce drug abuse as early as 1961 when the UN Single Convention was signed. However, the only ... |
Use of Narcotic Drugs in Public Injection Rooms under Public International Law [07.01.2000] | State-controlled public injection rooms are not expressly referred to in any of the relevant international conventions. It is thus necessary to dete ... |
The impact of heroin prescription on heroin markets in Switzerland [01.01.2000] | A program of heroin prescription was introduced in Switzerland in 1994. This initially targeted 1,000 heavily dependent heroin users, most of whom we ... |
Therapeutic Use of Cannabis by Crack Addicts in Brazil [01.10.1999] | This study ensued from clinical observations based on spontaneous accounts by crack abusers undergoing their first psychiatric assessment, where they ... |
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