New Zealand's Housing Minister admits policy of testing housing for traces of methamphetamine is ineffective and calls for more rational and compassionate approaches.
A lack of training and deliberately excessive obstacles to importation and prescription create structural barriers for patients to access palliative care.
According to the study, key interventions to reduce infections are needle and syringe programmes which minimise the use of contaminated equipment, and opioid substitution therapy including methadone, buprenorphine and naloxone.
The war on drugs deployed by Cambodia's authoritarian PM Hun Sen has seen more than 13,000 people jailed since January, including pregnant women and mothers with small infants.
A bill tabled before the Parliament would decriminalise all drugs and establish thresholds for personal use, potentially ending years of State abuse against people who use drugs.
