Coletta A. Youngers, WOLA Senior Fellow, Commentaries about the International Guiding Principles on Alternative Development approved last week at an international meeting in Lima, Peru. She states that this document represents a lost opportunity to promote equitable economic development in some of the world’s poorest regions.
The purpose of this assessment was to collect information on the scale and quality of the existing Medication Assisted Therapy (MAT) services for people who inject drugs (PWID) in the Kyrgyz Republic, and to identify any gaps in such services.
The guide examines therapeutic process, the exchange between client and clinician through which the work happens. It' s focus on the relationship being formed during this therapeutic process.
In Australia, preference for ecstasy has begun to return (32% in 2012 versus 27% in 2011). Alcohol has overtaken cocaine as the third drug of choice. This is one of the conclusions of the Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System (EDRS)-2012, conducted by National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre.
This paper explores in which extent gender perspective is present in the design of the policy guidelines issued by the various agencies involved in the development and implementation of European Union (EU) drug policy.
This report conducted by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare presents data about alcohol and other drug treatment agencies, their clients, drugs of concern and the type of treatment received.
This visit was an opportunity for UHRN representatives to learn more about how these harm reduction services are design and delivered, in order to be able to promote similar initiatives in Uganda.
Despite a decreasing trend of HIV cases among injecting drug users in most of the EU/EEA countries, Greece reported in 2011 a significant increase in the HIV case reports and the HIV prevalence among this group.
Both the gender issue and drugs public politics are a relatively recent reality in Europe. The ambivalent juridical perspective (legal-illegal) to which certain behaviours linked to these kind of substances are subdued, has conditioned the scientific boundary of public politics related to drugs in the EU.
This report provides information based on visits to two methadone maintenance treatment clinics (MMT clinics), and three syringe exchange sites in china.
A recent risk assessment in Romania documented an increased HIV incidence, increased hepatitis C prevalence, recent changes in injecting patterns (with more frequent injecting), and low coverage of effective harm reduction services.
