Action for Safer Supply empower Canadian communities to address the toxic drug overdose crisis through key steps, including staying informed, demanding access, policy level advocacy and information sharing.
Youth Rise underscore key challenges for young people who use opioids, including a lack of access to youth-tailored health and harm reduction, enduring stigma, and marginalisation.
Kalicum et al. find that enrolling in an unsanctioned compassion club reduced all non-fatal overdose, pointing to the importance of this community-led intervention.
Rammohan et. al. report decreased overdose mortality rates in areas with a supervised consumption services, underscoring the need and value of these interventions.
As the presence of nitazenes, powerful synthetic opioids, increase in the UK drug supply, the 'Stayin' Alive' campaign strongly advises people who use heroin, oxycodone, and benzodiazepines to adopt additional safety measures, including testing, reducing dosage, and carrying naloxone.
The shift towards synthetic drugs, coupled with prohibition-led unpredictable and toxic drug supplies, has sparked a harrowing overdose crisis in North America, demanding policy reforms that advance harm reduction and learn from the pitfalls of the 'war on drugs'.
Harm Reduction International presents an update to key data in their flagship report - The Global State of Harm Reduction, including the launch of a new drug consumption room in Colombia.
Participants of this scheme facilitated by the Drug User Liberation Front reported improved health and life outcomes, including in relation to reliance on street drugs, harmful police interactions and exposure to violence.
