The conference was a very important and useful meeting that was attended by professionals, care providers and policy makers from across South East Europe.

This report intends to support anyone wanting to host a harm reduction cafe in their local area.

New Zealand took a remarkable initiative when regulated NPS in April 2014, however things are evolving fast.

Thousands of people die unnecessarily from opioid overdose every year. From this survey IDHDP hopes to understand more about where the life saving drug naloxone is and isn’t available as well as its level of accessibility.

In Ukraine, the adoption of OST is more influenced by ideological biases and prejudices than by existing scientific evidence.

While participants largely continue to use crack, the intensity of their use has dropped significantly. They have also benefited from a drastically increased quality of life as result of the housing and access to health care.

Substance analysis opens a window of opportunity to talk about safer ways to use drugs.

During 2012 the Community Action on Harm Reduction project has been fully operational in 5 project countries providing services to people who inject drugs, their families and partners.

The new EHRN report shows that implementation of criminal laws regulating drug use and drug possession with no intent to supply costs more than double the amount spent on drug treatment, such as opioid substitution treatment in the region of Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

The last of the series of Correlation Conferences, entitled ‘Getting out of the margins – Changing realities and making the difference’, took place from 12th to 14th December 2011 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. This report is an account of the discussions that took place during the final session of the…

This new manual was developed to provide behavioral health care programs offering substance abuse treatment services information to better address the needs of clients who have viral hepatitis.

Welcome to the second edition of the IDPC Drug Policy Guide. The Guide brings together global evidence and examples of best practice to provide guidance on the review, design and implementation of national drug policies.

Recent years have seen a growing unwillingness among increasing numbers of States parties to fully adhere to a strictly prohibitionist reading of the UN drug control conventions. Such behaviour has been driven by a belief that non-punitive and pragmatic health oriented domestic policy approaches…

This briefing paper outlines the international legal drug control obligations, the room for manoeuvre the regime leaves open to national policy makers and the clear limits of latitude that cannot be crossed without violating the treaties.

This internship programme is an opportunity for harm reductionists from around the world to spend a six-week internship with the PHS Community Services Society in Vancouver, Canada.

This EMCDDA Best Practice Portal page refers to the current evidence on the effectiveness of the available harm reduction options for opioid injectors.

This article reviews some common examples of new recreational drugs, and provides a framework for conducting an interview in the primary care setting with people who may have problems with their use.

In October 2010, the Harm Reduction Coalition, a national advocacy and capacity-building organization, surveyed 50 programmes known to distribute naloxone in the United States, to collect data on local programme locations, naloxone distribution, and overdose reversals.

Of 30 European countries, 24 sanction prison OMT, but only eight provide coverage that matches average EU community levels. It is important to challenge negative perceptions of prison OMT and promote equivalence of care and continuity of treatment.