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Fentanyl: Spate of fatal overdoses in Sydney could be linked to drug blamed for Prince’s death
The chief executive officer of the New South Wales Users & AIDS Association, Dr Mary Harrod, pointed to the need for a much wider roll-out of naloxone, the drug used to treat overdoses. […]
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How Do We Stop Drug Deaths at Music Festivals?
There’s one element of harm reduction that some say works better than all others, but it is also nearly impossible to implement in an official capacity: drug testing kits. […]
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Science Seeks to Unlock Marijuana Secrets
As the once-vilified drug becomes more accepted, researchers around the world are trying to understand how it works and how it might fight disease. […]
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Tasmania: testing festival drugs can stop people dying
Police Minister Rene Hidding did himself and the Tasmanian community no good at all last week with his arrogant, dangerous dismissal of a sensible idea by the Greens for pill testing to be available at music festivals. […]
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Reducing Harms of Harmless Pleasures: The Role of Civil Society
Let’s take ethical responsibility for our guilty pleasures by committing to harm reducing political advocacy at the local, national, regional, and global levels inter alia! […]
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A New Direction on Drugs
“We can’t arrest and incarcerate addiction out of people. Not only do I think it’s really inhumane, but it’s ineffective and it costs us billions upon billions of dollars to keep doing this.” […]
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Kill drug dealers and I’ll give you a medal, says Philippines president
Duterte has been suspected of playing a role in many killings of suspected criminals by motorcycle-riding assassins dubbed the “Davao death squads”. Human rights watchdogs say he has not been criminally charged because nobody has dared to testify against him in court. […]
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Report Accuses Mexico of Crimes Against Humanity in Drug War
The evidence is “overwhelming,” said James A. Goldston, the executive director of the New York-based Justice Initiative, which will release the report on Tuesday. “In case after case, army actors and federal police have been implicated.” […]
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Prince’s death from fentanyl is only the tip of the global overdose iceberg
Approaches such as needle and syringe programs are based on human rights principles. They are inexpensive, easy to implement and have a positive impact on individual and community health. […]
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Can An App Detect A Heroin Overdose?
When I asked the developer, Chris Oelerich, if he thought about the counter-arguments against harm-reduction, that it “enables” drug use, he said, “If people are going to keep using heroin, then making it harder isn’t a great strategy.” […]
