Items tagged with crack
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| Changing drug use forces cities to come up with new solutions [04.10.2023] | Swiss cities are adapting their drug policies in the face of new forms of drug use. Thirty years after the open drug scene in Zurich, experts say it ... |
| Could crack cocaine vapes be harm reduction tools of the future? [17.11.2021] | There is a glut of research surrounding safer alternatives for people who use opioids. Less well researched are safer alternatives for crack cocaine ... |
| ‘Wall of shame’ built to block crack users sparks fury in Paris suburb [30.09.2021] | Paris authorities have bricked up a tunnel that connects Paris and the northeastern suburb of Pantin in the département of Seine-Saint-Denis, after m ... |
| The forgotten history of European drug-dealer activism [30.04.2021] | Today, the contributions of drug suppliers towards harm reduction efforts remain mostly neglected by history, although some within the grassroots end ... |
| 'The capital of crack' - Why can't Paris deal with its drug problem? [17.12.2020] | For 30 years, crack has been the bane of this part of the capital, near Place Stalingrad, in the less glamorous northeast of the city. Since last yea ... |
| Smokable cocaine markets in Latin America and the Caribbean [01.03.2020] | The smokable cocaine market was established decades ago, and is definitely not a new phenomenon. Rather than disappear, it is undergoing a slow expan ... |
| Deputy Mayor wants pilot for safe consumption room in new drug strategy [27.01.2020] | In Bristol, there were 49 drug related deaths in 2017/18 – the highest ever recorded. There are almost 5,000 heroin and crack users in the city and, ... |
| Daily cannabis use could delay at-risk youth from moving to higher risk drug use: study [29.03.2018] | Consuming cannabis every day could delay at-risk youth from moving on to injecting more dangerous drugs, according to a new study that casts doubt up ... |
| Inside Crackland: the open-air drug market that São Paulo just can’t kick [27.11.2017] | The brazen drug scene of Cracolândia is unlike nearly anything in any city in the world – hundreds and sometimes thousands of addicts, congregating o ... |
| Why João Doria’s war on drugs is doomed [12.07.2017] | When São Paulo Mayor João Doria set out to fulfil a campaign promise and rid the city of its cracolândia (crackland), an area that was home to a grou ... |
| Wrecking to ‘revitalise’: São Paulo expels drug users and razes buildings, claiming public safety [16.06.2017] | On May 21, 500 civil and military police descended on the downtown neighbourhood where, since the late 1990s, hundreds to thousands of crack-cocaine ... |
| São Paulo’s drug policies are working – will the new mayor kill them? [20.10.2016] | A harm-reduction approach, De Braços Abertos (“With Open Arms”), to homeless crack use in São Paulo’s city centre hangs in the balance. For over two ... |
| The interplay between drug-use behaviors, settings, and access to care [14.08.2015] | Despite the growing attention surrounding crack cocaine use in Brazil, little is understood about crack users’ histories, use patterns and the interp ... |
| Four of the major fear campaigns that helped create America's insane war on drugs [08.02.2015] | If moral entrepreneurs and interest groups manage to whip up enough fear and anxiety, they can create a full-blown moral panic, the widespread sense ... |
| Is São Paulo's drug treatment program working? [21.01.2015] | Authorities say crack use has dropped 80 percent in São Paulo's notorious "Crackland" district since the implementation of With Open Arms ("De Braços ... |
| Controversial São Paulo project offers jobs to crack addicts in Cracolândia [28.10.2014] | On a mild winter morning in São Paulo, two dozen people pick up brooms and rubbish bins from a warehouse. They wear blue jumpsuits with a De Braços A ... |
| Crack cocaine is king in Brazil: What Sao Paulo is doing about it [25.04.2014] | São Paulo's Cracolândia has been here for 15 years. Its population hovered around 1,500. The city recently took over a collection of flophouses aroun ... |
| The battle against 'pasta base' [05.03.2014] | In December, Uruguay became the first nation in the world to legislate for the production, sale and state regulation of marijuana. Many hope that whe ... |
| Crack cocaine users: New data from Brazil [15.10.2013] | Last September, the Brazilian Ministries of Health and Justice presented data of two key surveys – “Estimated number of crack and similar drug users ... |
| Brazil state launches crack rehabilitation program [08.05.2013] | Sao Paulo State expanded its attack on crack cocaine by unveiling a program that will provide about $650 a month in subsidies for the rehabilitation ... |
| Cracolândia: the crack capital of Brazil where addicts are forced to seek help [08.05.2013] | With Brazil gripped by a crack epidemic, the authorities have launched a series of controversial initiatives. Since the start of last year, São Paulo ... |
| Colombia’s capital banks on marijuana cure for hard drug addicts [07.05.2013] | Marijuana has long been accused of being a gateway to deadlier vices. But could cannabis be a swinging door that might also lead people away from har ... |
| Cannabis to substitute crack [22.04.2013] | The mayor of Bogota has recently proposed a pilot scheme with crack cocaine addicts to explore the substitution of crack made of cocaine base paste ( ... |
| Brighton plans safe rooms for addicts to inject drugs [13.04.2013] | Brighton is set to be the first British city to offer official "drug consumption rooms" where addicts can use heroin, crack and cocaine under supervi ... |
| Daniel Vaillant pense à une «salle de crack» [13.04.2013] | 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 ... |
| Drugs in Brazil: Cracking up [05.04.2013] | São Paulo’s Cracolândia was Brazil’s first and is still its biggest. It is home to 2,000 addicts. But most Brazilian cities now have similar district ... |
| Marijuana to fight drug addiction [01.04.2013] | BBC Mundo reports that Bogotá is planning a system of "controlled consumption centers," where addicts could be weaned off more hard-core drugs, such ... |
| UN concerned by arbitrary arrests in Brazil [27.03.2013] | The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention voiced concern about the rising number of arbitrary arrests in Brazil, which has one of the h ... |
| Forced treatment for Brazil crack addicts [25.02.2013] | The city of Rio de Janeiro has begun a program of involuntary hospitalization for crack users, one month after Brazil’s biggest city São Paulo began ... |
| Drug users to have secure site in Paris [11.02.2013] | Drug users in France will soon have a state-sanctioned place where they can use heroin, crack and other intravenous drugs, after the government appro ... |
| Anti-Crack Efforts Miss Targets: Daily [14.01.2013] | The government’s campaign to curb crack cocaine use that was launched late last year is failing to deliver on its targets, reports O Globo. As of the ... |
| Brazil debates treatment options in crack epidemic [30.12.2012] | With a boom in crack use over the past decade, Brazilian authorities are struggling to stop the drug's spread, sparking a debate over the legality an ... |
| Legalise ganja to treat HIV, cancer, doctors tell gov't [22.12.2012] | Marcus Day of the Caribbean Drug and Alcohol Research Institute believes the time has come for regional governments to legalise marijuana to countera ... |
| Cannabis as a substitute for alcohol and other drugs [19.11.2012] | This article examines the subjective impact of medical cannabis on the use of both licit and illicit substances via self-report from 404 medical cann ... |
| Brazil: Drug dealers say no to crack in Rio [18.08.2012] | Once crack was introduced about six years ago, Mandela and the surrounding complex of shantytowns became Rio's main outdoor drug market, a "cracoland ... |
| Bring back the free crack pipes [05.09.2011] | When you hear that your government is helping addicts shoot up or smoke crack, it's normal to wonder: how can this possibly be good? Until recently, ... |
| Free crack cocaine pipes enable the saving of lives [21.08.2011] | In 2008, Safeworks, an outreach program of Alberta Health Services, began a harm reduction program aimed at mitigating the effects of sharing crack p ... |
| Free crack pipe service discontinued in Calgary [19.08.2011] | A decision to stop a clean crack-pipe distribution program has disappointed those working to rehabilitate street addicts. Since 2008, Alberta Health ... |
| Cocaine addiction treatments to improve control and reduce harm (CATCH) [18.08.2011] | Cocaine, particularly in its base form ('crack'), has become one of the drugs of most concern in the Netherlands, being associated with a wide range ... |
| Drug users to receive crack pipes as part of pilot project [02.08.2011] | Vancouver health officials will distribute new crack pipes to non-injection drug users this fall as part of a pilot project aimed at engaging crack c ... |
| In booming Brazil, crack strikes late but hard [18.07.2011] | About two decades after the U.S. emerged from the worst of its own crack epidemic, Brazilian authorities are watching the cheap drug spread across th ... |
| Uptake, benefits of and barriers to safer crack use kit (SCUK) distribution programmes in Victoria, Canada [30.06.2011] | Crack use is prevalent amongst street drug users in Canadian cities, and associated with severe drug use, health and social problems. Whilst few targ ... |
| Insite’s next battle: supervised inhalation [14.05.2011] | Insite’s operators have twice applied for a federal health exemption to allow crack cocaine smokers to use the room – the request was rejected in 200 ... |
| Do crack smoking practices change with the introduction of safer crack kits? [30.04.2011] | Crack smoking has increased in Vancouver despite the harms associated with its use. Many people who smoke crack share their equipment, thereby increa ... |
| The Safer Crack Use Program [01.06.2010] | This fact sheet explains the Safer Crack Use Program of the Public Health Department of Toronto (Canada). In Toronto, a range of community-based, gov ... |
| Crack untamed: treat users, kill the market [07.05.2010] | Brazil will soon have a special police task force targeting crack-cocaine. Meanwhile, the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais proposes its own drug fight ... |
| Smoking of crack cocaine as a risk factor for HIV infection among people who use injection drugs [27.10.2009] | This paper examined whether use of crack cocaine has become a risk factor for HIV infection. Smoking of crack cocaine was found to be an independent ... |
| Distributing safer crack use kits in Canada [01.09.2008] | A number of public health departments and community organizations in Canada distribute safer crack use kits to people who use crack cocaine. The kits ... |
| Characterization of the crack cocaine culture in the city of São Paulo: a controlled pattern of use [01.07.2008] | In the city of São Paulo, the culture of crack use has undergone considerable changes over these 11 years since it was first described. The sociodemo ... |
| Cocaine paste and cannabis in the field of mental health in Chile [26.02.2007] | Clinical observations and scientific evidence - The use of some drugs in Chile remains silenced in official discourses, making it important to clinic ... |
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