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Tough Love Can Be Deadly
Researchers have repeatedly shown the efficacy of harm-reduction approaches, like SIFs, to addiction. As Dr. Thomas Kerr, Associate Director of the British Columbia Centre on Substance Abuse argues, the scientific evidence surrounding safe injections sites is clear: “There’s no real serious academic debate.” So why isn’t the United States, currently facing…
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Injection Sites Provide Safe Spots To Shoot Up
In about one hundred locations across Canada, Europe and Australia, supervised drug injection facilities allow visitors to inject heroin and other drugs in a clean, well-lighted space under the watchful eye of trained personnel who can rescue them if they overdose. […]
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IRELAND: Legislation to decriminalise drugs could come in ‘early 2019’
Legislation to decriminalise drugs, including heroin, cocaine and cannabis, for personal use could be enacted in early 2019, Minister of State for the National Drugs Strategy Catherine Byrne has indicated. On Thursday, she appointed a working group to look at “alternative approaches to the possession of drugs for personal use”. It will…
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Philippines: Reinstating police to anti-drug operations risks ‘catastrophic wave of violence’
Responding to news that Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the police to resume their role in supporting his administration’s controversial ‘war on drugs’, James Gomez, Amnesty International’s Southeast Asia and the Pacific Director, said: “In returning police to his anti-drug operations yet again, President Duterte has consigned the poorest…
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Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it?
The law was merely a reflection of transformations that were already happening in clinics, in pharmacies and around kitchen tables across the country. The official policy of decriminalisation made it far easier for a broad range of services (health, psychiatry, employment, housing etc) that had been struggling to pool their…
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Amnesty International urges ICC to start probe into PH drug war killings
It is time for international justice mechanisms to step in and end the carnage on Philippine streets by bringing the perpetrators to justice,” said James Gomez, AI’s regional director for Southeast Asia and the Pacific. […]
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Greens launch bid to legalise pill testing in Victoria
The Victorian Greens are defying the Labor Government’s opposition to pill testing with a new plan to reduce overdoses and save lives at festivals. On Wednesday morning the Greens first read a bill that would give medical and forensic experts an exemption from criminal charges to conduct lab-grade pill testing at major events. […]
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Drug checking – how people use and what do they learn
With its origins going back 25 years in countries like the Netherlands, Switzerland and Austria (and even back to San Francisco in the late 1960s!), drug checking in all its guises is sweeping both hemispheres. […]
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Advocates want pill testing at Groovin the Moo as research launched
Advocates are still keen to bring pill testing to Groovin the Moo in Canberra next year, saying their plan to trial testing at Saturday’s Spilt Milk festival was “vandalised” by the Liberal Party. […]
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On eve of ASEAN summit, more than 270 groups, individuals renew calls for UN-led probe of drug war killings
Ahead of the Philippines’ hosting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit, more than 270 nongovernment organizations and individuals renewed calls for a United Nations-led investigation into the thousands of deaths associated with President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs. […]
