Fiscal austerity measures could threaten the future of Portugal’s exemplary harm reduction services. But short-term cost-saving measures could prove costly further down the line.
Posts Tagged “drug treatment”
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For many people living with HIV, the risk of overdose presents a more imminent threat than AIDS-related illness. Despite this fact, donors and governments are slow to adopt overdose prevention measures as part of their AIDS programs. It's time for a wake-up call.
Posted in: Asia, Europe, Health, United States
Topics: Canada, China, drug treatment, drug users, Global Fund, harm reduction, HIV/AIDS, naloxone, overdose, PEPFAR, public health, Roxanne Saucier, Russia, UNAIDS, United States, UNODC, Vietnam, World Health Organization
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In the small town of Malindi, Kenya, women who use drugs will never receive the services they deserve until the community listens to their needs.
Posted in: Africa, Education & Youth, Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: citizenship, criminal justice, drug policy, drug treatment, harm reduction, HIV/AIDS, human rights, Kenya, malaria, Malindi, needle exchange, police abuse, pregnancy, public health, sex workers, statelessness, Umra Omar, women
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New York is poised to take further steps to remove young people from the lifelong negative consequences of prosecution and incarceration in the adult criminal justice system.
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Igor Kuzmenko chronicles how opioid substitution therapy can offer drug users in Ukraine the chance to stabilize their lives and start anew.
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Over the past decade, governments have increasingly turned to arbitrary detention, cruelty, and even torture in order to combat drug abuse.
Posted in: Asia, Europe, Health, Latin America & the Caribbean, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Cambodia, Campaign to Stop Torture in Health Care, China, drug detention, drug policy, drug treatment, drug users, forced labor, harm reduction, HIV/AIDS, human rights, international justice, Mexico, public health, Roxanne Saucier, Russia, torture, war on drugs
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In Thailand, the drug war has failed to stem the spread of HIV among injection drug users. New video testimony suggests harm reduction services are needed instead.
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Ahead of a visit from Barack Obama, Polish president Bronislaw Komorowski has signed an amendment to his country's drug law.
Posted in: Europe, Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: drug policy, drug treatment, drug users, EU, global drug policy, Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch, Poland, war on drugs
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Governments across the globe increasingly detain people who use drugs against their will in the name of rehabilitation. Two prominent medical organizations are condemning this practice, calling for drug detention facilities to be closed immediately.
Posted in: Asia, Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: Campaign to Stop Torture in Health Care, drug detention, drug policy, drug treatment, harm reduction, Helsinki Declaration, HIV/AIDS, human rights, International Federation of Health and Human Rights Organizations, Sarah Evans, torture, World Medical Association
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Canada's top court heard arguments last week in a case about the future of Insite, North America’s first safe-injection site. But the case should never have gone to court.
Posted in: Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: British Columbia, Canada, drug policy, drug treatment, drug users, human rights, Insite, overdose, Sarah Evans, Stephen Harper, supervised injection, Supreme Court
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