With overdoses spiking recently in Vancouver due to a dangerous batch of heroin, it's worth considering the vital role that heroin assisted treatment could play in combating these harms.
In September, the Global Forum on MSM & HIV and INPUD presented a webinar on strategies for addressing harm reduction and human rights in the context of the Global Fund’s New Funding Model.
Following the decisions by Colorado and Washington two years ago to legalise recreational cannabis, Alaska, Oregon and Washington D.C. will be putting similar measures before voters in the coming weeks.
More than 80 social organisations from various regions of the world condemned the enforced disappearance of 43 Mexican students in the context of that country’s “war on drugs”.
