Judy Chang (INPUD) believes that women who use drugs need to come together to organise and strengthen networks and communities to prepare for increasing onslaughts on the rights of women worldwide.
The Düsseldorf City Council has taken advice from experts on plans to legalise the sale of cannabis. It hopes to use scientific research to gain the approval it needs from the federal government.
Cannabis production should be regulated by the federal government, with licensing and production controls used to ensure a competitive system that includes small producers, the panel said, suggesting the door was open for new producers to get into the burgeoning sector.
Bluegreen Economics conclude that both the state government and cannabis consumers would realise a significant net benefit under a regulated and taxed recreational cannabis scheme.
Wastewater based epidemiology is a rapidly developing scientific discipline with the potential for monitoring near-real-time, population-level trends in illicit drug use.
The EECA statement argues that the currently alarming epidemiologic situation and an envisioned decrease in funding, might affect the sustainability of the positive results worldwide in combating AIDS, and less effective implementation of the new global target: to end HIV by 2030.
As heroin deaths rise in the UK, the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs has suggested a wide range of measres including opiate substitution therapy and supervised injecting rooms.
