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Items tagged with drug consumption rooms

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Paris drugs shooting gallery given the go-ahead [30-05-13] Drug users in Paris will be able to inject themselves in a secure and monitored environment after a site near the city’s busy Gare du Nord was agreed ...
Report calls for decriminalizing both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ drugs [23-05-13] The personal use of illegal drugs, including heroin and crack cocaine, should be decriminalized as part of a federal-provincial strategy to tackle dru...
Inside Denmark's 'fixing rooms', where nurses watch as addicts inject in safety [05-05-13] Since the launch of the room, the quantity of drug paraphernalia collected from gutters, playgrounds, stairwells and doorways in the area has halved. ...
Brighton plans safe rooms for addicts to inject drugs [14-04-13] Brighton is set to be the first British city to offer official "drug consumption rooms" where addicts can use heroin, crack and cocaine unde...
Daniel Vaillant pense à une «salle de crack» [13-04-13] Daniel Vaillant (PS), a suggéré de réfléchir à la création d’une salle de consommation de crack, une fois que la «salle de shoot» de la gare du Nord a...
Injection room saves 30 lives [04-04-13] Staff at Copenhagen’s first legal drug injection room have saved 30 lives since it opened last autumn, according to metroXpress newspaper.The deputy m...
Marijuana to fight drug addiction [02-04-13] BBC Mundo reports that Bogotá is planning a system of "controlled consumption centers," where addicts could be weaned off more hard-core dru...
Norway mulls decriminalising heroin smoking [01-03-13] The Norwegian government it wants to decriminalise the inhalation of heroin, a method considered less dangerous than injecting it, to reduce the numbe...
Drug users to have secure site in Paris [11-02-13] Drug users in France will soon have a state-sanctioned place where they can use heroin, crack and other intravenous drugs, after the government appr...
Insite - Not Just Injecting, But Connecting [17-01-13] Last year the HCLU’s video advocacy group travelled to Vancouver, to make a film about Insite, the only legally-operating injecting facility i...
City Council planning more injection rooms [10-01-13] The injection room for drug users that opened in Vesterbro last October has been such a success that the City Council is considering opening three mor...
End of the road for the fix on wheels [27-11-12] Mobile injection rooms have been operated for the past year out of two former ambulances. Run by the private organisation Foreningen Fixerum and staff...
Bogotá’s medical care centres for drug addicts (CAMAD) [01-11-12] In September 2012, the mayor of Bogotá, Gustavo Petro, launched the first centre for drug addicts in the Bronx, a marginalised city-centre neighbourho...
Drug ‘shooting galleries’ to be tested by France [22-10-12] France’s health minister, Marisol Touraine, has said trial centres where drug addicts can safely inject their own drugs with sterile needles provided ...
Colombian prosecutor calls for drug legalisation referendum [20-08-12] Colombia's chief public prosecutor has called for a referendum on whether to legalise drug consumption, in response to plans to set up a network ...
The War on Drugs and HIV/AIDS [25-06-12] The global war on drugs is driving the HIV pandemic among people who use drugs and their sexual partners. Throughout the world, research has consist...
Drug consumption rooms [20-06-12] For the past 10 to 20 years, drug consumption rooms (DCRs) have become an integrated part of the drug treatment and harm reduction strategy in a var...
Hollande will not go Dutch on cannabis [17-05-12] The new president of France, François Hollande, is not likely to change cannabis policies. His choice as Minister of the Interior, Manuel Valls, is a ...
Residents prickled over site of injection room [26-04-12] Many residents of Vesterbro have lived alongside the local homeless and drug-addict populations for decades. But for the sake of the drug users’ hea...
Injection room finally finds a home [19-04-12] Some obstacles remain before the injection room, which may cost as much as 18 million kroner to set up, can become a reality - including an expected...
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