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Una Mullally: It’s ludicrous to hand over drug quality control to criminal gangs
The highest level in Europe of so-called ‘legal high’ drug use was found among young Irish people […]
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AIDS Moncton gives out crack pipes to area drug users
AIDS Moncton has quietly been supplying drug users in southeastern New Brunswick with reusable crack pipes for more than three years. […]
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The new war on drugs: harm reduction, needle exchange used more in fight against heroin
When the War On Drugs proved unsuccessful, researchers, clinicians, and lawmakers were forced to go back to the drawing board. […]
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Synthetic drugs are killing our kids, so let’s take control
Prohibiting recreational drugs hasn’t worked, so it’s time to try regulating them. […]
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Australia’s drug driving laws are grossly unfair
Australia’s drug driving laws criminalise individuals who represent no risk to other drivers, writes Greg Barns. […]
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Why one ex-Chicago prosecutor changed her thinking on the drug war
“Part of what bothers me the most about whole the war on drugs is the sheer intellectual dishonesty of it,” Inge Fryklund says as she rattles off a brief history of prohibition. […]
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Getting tough on crime needs a softer approach
There is a saying in the prison building industry that goes along the lines of: ‘If you build them, they will fill them’. […]
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When addiction has a white face
When crack hit America in the mid-1980s, for African-Americans, to borrow from Ta-Nehisi Coates, civilization fell. […]
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Why harm reduction and drug policy reform need each other
Gloria Lai from the International Drug Policy Consortium briefly discusses policy reform in the run up to the UN General Assembly Special Session on the world drug problem. […]
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Philpott expects more applications for safe injection sites
Canadian federal health minister Jane Philpott says she is expecting more applications for establishing safe injection sites across the country. […]