Over the last year, Chanura Kol has reached out to more than a hundred women who inject drugs, many of whom are HIV positive and all of whom were in need of general and emergency care.
The intervention strategy on drug use is carried out together with Intercambios and includes disclosure, training, and care of drug users both at the individual, institutional and community levels.
The campaign, launched in May 2012 to promote debate on key issues for the reform of the Argentinian narcotics law, is well underway. This is an update on the reach and results achieved so far.
For the first time, the drug czar has supported broadening access to naloxone, the life-saving prescription drug that immediately reverses overdoses of heroin and prescription painkillers.
New Zealand’s Associate Minister of Health Peter Dunne has announced a new system for regulating synthetic highs. Due to come into effect next year, the regime places the onus on the legal high industry to prove their products are safe before they go on sale.