Country after country a vast array of new psychoactive substances, rapidly spread via online sources, is causing havoc for law and policy makers and are now looking to the example of recent New Zealand legislation.
Participants in the Staying Safe hepatitis C prevention project gave invaluable insight into life-saving protective practices. The findings could be used to make harm reduction messages much more relevant.
On 2 June a nine-year-old boy died at the hands of his parents as a result of their desperation to end his unrelieved pain. The parents then committed suicide.
On Thursday 26th June 2014, hundreds of activists in more than 50 cities around the world will make their voices heard as part of the global Support. Don't punish campaign – funded through the CAHR project.
In February, the Italian Constitutional Court ruled that most of the 2006 drug law norms were unconstitutional and the Court of Cassation decided that people sentenced and incarcerated under the illegitimate norms have the right to be resentenced.
Representatives from Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Ukraine and Tajikistan met in May to launch a regional project seeking to encourage more domestic spending on harm reduction programmes.
The resolution includes calls to use legal flexibilities to lower prices of new effective medicines, and accelerate harm reduction programmes for people who inject drugs.
Uruguay will exempt marijuana production and sales from taxes in a bid to ensure prices remain low enough to undercut competition from black market pot smuggled in from Paraguay.
Guatemala is considering subsidizing alternative crops for poppy farmers in order to curb the production of narcotics and raise funds for social programs.
OST is one of the best ways to prevent HIV transmission among people who inject drugs. Integrating such therapy with HIV treatment and care is key to addressing the HIV epidemic effectively.