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26 September 2023

Virtual overdose monitoring services and overdose prevention technologies: Opportunities, limitations, and future directions

Rioux et al. explore the ways in which virtual overdose monitoring services and overdose detection technologies can help to expand the reach of 'traditional' harm reduction interventions whilst highlighting concerns —including related to privacy and surveillance.

26 September 2023

Abolition and harm reduction in the struggle for “Care, Not Cages”

Levenson et al. note how the overdose crisis in the United States is inextricably linked to wider systems of criminalisation and incarceration, calling for the abolition of policing and prisons in order to uproot structural causes of harm.

25 September 2023

Protecting our communities - A toolkit

Drug Policy Alliance underscore how chronic underinvestment in public services and the criminalisation of social issues have fuelled several concurrent crises, calling for increased investment in jobs, education, housing, and health care.

25 September 2023

Peer-to-peer distribution of naloxone

EuroNPUD advocate for peer-led harm reduction delivered by, with and for people who use drugs and provide technical resources that support the delivery of peer-led harm reduction by drug user organisations and peer work projects.

20 September 2023

Principles of non-police response to drug use concerns and emergencies

Drug Policy Alliance proposes principles to guide policymakers in developing person and harm-reduction-centred alternatives to police responses.

19 September 2023

Legal approaches to new psychoactive substances: First empirical findings

Van Amsterdam et al. present the first set of empirical findings relating to generic drug legislation in the UK and Germany, revealing it to be largely ineffective in counteracting NPS use and causing increased public health problems.

19 September 2023

Perspectives and recommendations of opioid overdose survivors experiencing unsheltered homelessness on housing, overdose, and substance use treatment

Paradise et al. underscore the importance of incorporating the voices of people experiencing homelessness into the development of housing and substance use treatment programs, in order to reduce the risk of overdose and protect those most vulnerable to the intersecting housing and opioid overdose crises.

18 September 2023

54th session of the Human Rights Council: Drug policy opportunities

Harm Reduction International identify key moments where drug policy will be addressed in the upcoming 54th Session of the Human Rights Council, presenting significant prospects for reform.

18 September 2023

Aid for the war on drugs

Harm Reduction International expose the large sums of aid being spent on drug prohibition worldwide, calling on governments and donors to divest from punitive policies and invest in health and human rights.

15 September 2023

Moving away from the punitive paradigm: An analysis of the 2023 OHCHR report on drug policy

IDPC highlights the major gains from the 2023 OHCHR report on human rights and drug policy, and provides recommendations to Member States and UN entities for its effective implementation.

12 September 2023

Police seizure of drugs without arrest among people who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada, before provincial ‘decriminalization’ of simple possession: a cohort study

Hayashi et al. reveal that despite the enactment of a depenalisation policy in Vancouver, police continued to seize illicit drugs from people who use drugs, calling for abolition of this harmful discretionary policing practice.

12 September 2023

Human rights challenges in addressing and countering all aspects of the world drug problem - Report of the OHCHR

OHCHR present their report to the Human Rights Council on the impact of the world drug problem on human rights, urging policymakers to shift towards a health and human-rights centred approach to drug policy.