Last year, a long term Lithuanian drug user activist, Kestutis Butkus, in partnership with the Eurasian Harm Reduction Network (EHRN) and the NGO I Can Live, sued the government of Lithuania for non continuation of OST treatment as well as cruel behavior during the imprisonment.
In Massachusetts, researchers set out to discover the results of a state-supported overdose education and naloxone distribution program on deaths from overdose.
The French government has given the green light to open a 'safe house' for drug addicts in Paris, where they will be able to inject using clean needles and without fear of landing in trouble with the police.
The focus of this Special Issue is to explore and analyse conditions that might create social and other changes that may in turn create different forms of substance use and drug use-related harm.
The availability of syringes through the Portuguese National Program for Needle Exchange was temporarily at risk, despite the country’s reputation for having one of the most progressive European drug policies.
ЕССВ ищет специалиста по правам человека. Фокус работы – адвокация реформы наркополитики и законов через мониторинг нарушений прав человека, и инициирование стратегических судебных процессов.