Tag: drug consumption rooms
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Health Canada approves supervised consumption of oral and intra-nasal substances at two Surrey sites
Tuesday, 27 June 2017Health Canada approved Fraser Health’s request to provide supervised consumption of oral and intra-nasal substances — the first time such an exemption has been granted in Canada. Two other supervised ...
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Montreal opens first mobile supervised injection clinic in North America
Monday, 19 June 2017Montreal has launched the first mobile supervised injection clinic in North America, as part of a package of services aimed at fighting back against an opioid crisis that has claimed thousands of liv ...
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Copenhagen’s drug injection rooms a success story, mayor says
Wednesday, 14 June 2017The lives of drug addicts who overdose can often be saved, provided they are using a drug injection room, figures show. Since two fixerums were opened by the municipality of Copenhagen in 2012 in the ...
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Support users, don't punish them: Ex-AFP boss' radical ideas to beat the drug trade
Tuesday, 13 June 2017For over half a century governments in Australia have relied heavily on law enforcement to curb the drug trade and reduce drug use. But despite huge funding, ever-increasing levels of police effectiv ...
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Canada’s mayors call for speedy approval of proposals to address overdose crisis
Thursday, 25 May 2017Canada’s big-city mayors are calling for the expedited approval of new supervised drug-consumption sites, improved data collection and the expansion of unconventional therapies, such as heroin-assist ...
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Canada eases steps to open supervised drug injection sites amid opioid crisis
Sunday, 21 May 2017Canada’s government has made it easier to open supervised drug injection sites across the country, offering communities a lifeline as they battle an opioid crisis that has claimed thousands of lives ...
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It’s time to kick our addiction to the war on drugs
Tuesday, 25 April 2017As New Jersey Governor Chris Christie takes the lead in crafting the Trump administration’s response to the opioid crisis, he and his colleagues need to understand that we can’t fix the problem until ...
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Durham police will give addicts heroin to inject in 'shooting galleries'
Sunday, 05 March 2017Heroin addicts will be given supplies to inject in specially designated “shooting galleries” under radical plans to tackle drug-related crime in Durham. The police force is set to become the first in ...
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Plan to open injection facility in Dublin for drug users
Tuesday, 07 February 2017The Government will discuss legislation which would exempt drug users from prosecution if found with certain illegal drugs in a supervised injection facility. Minister for Drugs Catherine Byrne will ...
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Awash in overdoses, Seattle creates safe sites for addicts to inject illegal drugs
Friday, 27 January 2017Officials in Seattle approved the nation’s first “safe-injection” sites for users of heroin and other illegal drugs, calling the move a drastic but necessary response to an epidemic of addiction that ...
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Injecting drugs, under a watchful eye
Wednesday, 18 January 2017It has been nearly 30 years since the first needle exchange program opened in the United States. America has another epidemic now: overdose deaths from opioids, heroin and fentanyl. A thousand people ...
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Why addicts take drugs in 'fix rooms'
Monday, 09 January 2017Britain could soon see its first "fix room" for drug users - a safe space where addicts can take illegal narcotics under medical supervision. But who uses such places and how do they work? Injecting ...
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Make heroin available on prescription, official UK drug advisers say
Sunday, 11 December 2016Heroin on prescription and supervised injecting rooms are among a range of measures that the government’s drug advisers have suggested to reverse the UK’s soaring numbers of drug deaths. Responding t ...
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Ottawa moves to facilitate more injection sites as death toll climbs
Friday, 09 December 2016Ottawa will introduce a bill that is expected to reduce barriers to opening and operating supervised drug-consumption sites in Canada. The move comes after B.C. announced it would open several “over ...
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France's first injection room for addicts opens in Paris
Tuesday, 11 October 2016France's first supervised drug centre or "salle de shoot" opened in Paris near the Gare du Nord train station. The area is a known hotspot for drug addicts, many of whom loiter around the nearby Gare ...
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Vancouver’s safer injection services stalled as overdose death toll mounts
Friday, 30 September 2016On Sept. 30, 2011, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in favour of Vancouver’s Insite, North America’s first legally authorized safer injection site. It was the culmination of a years-long struggle to ...
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Lausanne dit oui à l'expérience du joint légal
Monday, 05 September 2016Sans surprise, les élus lausannois ont donné leur feu vert à la Ville. Celle-ci pourra rejoindre le groupe formé par les grandes villes de Suisse qui souhaitent tester la consommation légale cannabis ...
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Safe injection clinic says 90% of clients' heroin had dangerous drug additive
Thursday, 01 September 2016North America’s only supervised injection site has found that 90% of its clients’ heroin contained the powerful synthetic fentanyl. Vancouver’s Insite, which offers health services including supervis ...
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Seattle’s potential solution for heroin epidemic: Places for legal drug use
Wednesday, 24 August 2016A task force established to combat a heroin epidemic in the Seattle metropolitan area has endorsed a strategy of establishing places where addicts would be allowed to take drugs without fear of being ...
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Scandinavia’s largest drug injection room opens in Copenhagen
Saturday, 13 August 2016H17, a new drug consumption room (fixerum), officially opens in Copenhagen. H17 was designed and decorated to specially suit the needs of drug users, who will find a sterile, supervised and supportiv ...
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Hysteria about drugs and harm minimisation
Thursday, 11 August 2016No matter how impressive the evidence of benefits, or how weak the evidence of serious side effects or how badly a strategy is needed, new harm reduction strategies are always greeted the same way: w ...
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Toronto board of health approves supervised injection sites
Sunday, 03 July 2016The stories of Toronto residents who died of overdoses on Toronto streets were heard for hours by board of health members, told by their friends, family and support workers advocating for supervised ...
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The safe room
Friday, 01 July 2016With Australia struggling to curb its crisis with methamphetamine two leading drug reform campaigners, Dr Alex Wodak and Matt Noffs, embarked on a research mission to Europe. Switzerland and Germany ...
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Plans for UK's first drug injecting centre in Glasgow
Wednesday, 29 June 2016Plans are being drawn up for the UK's first drug injecting facility in Glasgow city centre to tackle rising HIV cases and risk to the public from discarded needles. The Glasgow City Alcohol and Drug ...
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Drug experts plan Australia's first ice smoking room despite Government opposition
Wednesday, 29 June 2016Drug law reformers Matt Noffs and Dr Alex Wodak are pushing ahead with Australia's first supervised ice smoking room, in a move which directly contradicts the NSW Government's stance on such a centre ...
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Street opioids are getting deadlier. Overseeing drug use can reduce deaths
Monday, 25 April 2016As health officials battle increasing mortality associated with heroin and prescription opioids, an even more dangerous group of street drugs has appeared on the scene. From Seattle to Syracuse, auth ...
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Canadian official causes stir with ‘progressive’ speech at UN narcotics conference
Tuesday, 15 March 2016The Liberal government used its first foray into the global anti-narcotics arena this week to signal a clear shift away from the war-on-drugs philosophy, promising more safe-injection sites, promotin ...
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Government approves pilot scheme for drug injection facility in Dublin
Monday, 14 December 2015The cabinet has approved a pilot scheme for a medically supervised drug injection facility in Dublin. The facility was proposed by Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, the Minister in charge of the National Drugs Stra ...
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Safe-injection sites are cost-effective to health system: study
Sunday, 29 November 2015A new Canadian study about safe-injection sites for intravenous drug users concludes that they are cost-effective to the health-care system — an argument that is likely to be advanced as Montreal tak ...
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Heroin addiction: How to smack it down
Friday, 06 November 2015Ireland would establish "medically supervised injecting facilities" where heroin addicts can take their drugs, using clean equipment, under doctors’ supervision. This will reduce the dreadful harm do ...
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Pot legalization looks certain for Canada
Tuesday, 20 October 2015Carrying a torch for marijuana legalization, the Liberal Party of Canada emerged like a phoenix from parliamentary election to an absolute majority in the country’s House of Commons. Supporters and p ...
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Public to have say on legality of drugs
Friday, 03 July 2015The Irish public is being invited to have a say in what is thought to be the country’s first official examination of the decriminalisation of drugs for personal use. The Justice Committee is seeking ...
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Drug injection rooms a resounding success
Tuesday, 26 May 2015The drug injection rooms ('fixerum') that opened for customers some two and a half years ago in Denmark have been hailed as a resounding success. Out of the 355,255 injections that have taken place i ...
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Legalise cannabis in Luxembourg?
Sunday, 10 May 2015Luxembourg's Parliament is to debate the decriminalisation of consumption of cannabis, the health minister said while outlining a new drug prevention programme. The minister said she hoped to raise a ...
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Minister wants to see supervised 'injection centres' for addicts
Thursday, 07 May 2015Drugs Minister Aodhan O'Riordain from Ireland has said he wants to see legislation introducing injection centres for addicts before the next election. The newly-appointment minister says he wants to ...
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France votes to legalize drug 'shooting galleries'
Tuesday, 07 April 2015France's National Assembly voted this week to legalize drug consumption rooms - safe places for addicts to consume drugs - in the hope of keeping users off the street. The move has already proved con ...
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Global State of Harm Reduction 2014
Wednesday, 04 March 2015
In 2008, Harm Reduction International released the Global State of Harm Reduction, a report that mapped responses to drug-related HIV and hepatitis C epidemics around the world for the first time.(1) ...
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Why Canada is no longer a leader in global drug policy
Thursday, 26 February 2015Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s statement about the failures of Canada's drug policy is mostly on point. It’s just the last bit he gets wrong: “I think what everyone believes and agrees with, and to ...
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Give back safe smoking room to Vancouver crack users, study says
Monday, 09 February 2015For three years, the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users’ (VANDU) operated an unsanctioned, peer-run “safer smoking room” for crack users in a small ventilated washroom in its Downtown Eastside faci ...
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Un peu moins de fumée autour des politiques antidrogues
Wednesday, 19 November 2014Il faut changer la loi de 1970 pénalisant l’usage de cannabis : c’est ce que préconisent deux députés, auteurs d’un rapport sur les drogues illicites dans lequel ils actent l’échec de la politique de ...
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Crisis-hit Greece sets up first "drug consumption" centre
Sunday, 24 November 2013Greece has set up its first "drug consumption" room to contain a surge of infectious diseases among drug addicts in the crisis-hit country, Greece's Organization Against Drugs, OKANA, said. Following ...
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Drug-related deaths down
Sunday, 24 November 2013"It is encouraging that we have been able to achieve a drop in numbers in an area where Denmark’s figures are otherwise too high," says Health Minister Astrid Krag. Fixing rooms are said to be one of ...
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Drug rooms: Admirers eye Copenhagen model
Tuesday, 29 October 2013As a senior police official in northern England calls for safe rooms for the injection of hard drugs, attention has focused on similar projects around Europe. They point to an experiment in Copenhage ...
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Paris drugs shooting gallery given the go-ahead
Thursday, 30 May 2013Drug 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 by the city authorities. The drug consumption roo ...
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Report calls for decriminalizing both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ drugs
Thursday, 23 May 2013The personal use of illegal drugs, including heroin and crack cocaine, should be decriminalized as part of a federal-provincial strategy to tackle drug abuse, the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition argue ...
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Inside Denmark's 'fixing rooms', where nurses watch as addicts inject in safety
Saturday, 04 May 2013Since the launch of the room, the quantity of drug paraphernalia collected from gutters, playgrounds, stairwells and doorways in the area has halved. Vesterbro also appears to be a place where the de ...
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Brighton plans safe rooms for addicts to inject drugs
Saturday, 13 April 2013Brighton is set to be the first British city to offer official "drug consumption rooms" where addicts can use heroin, crack and cocaine under supervision without fear of prosecution. The city's publi ...
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Daniel Vaillant pense à une «salle de crack»
Saturday, 13 April 2013Daniel 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 aura été mise en place. «Je pense qu’il faut d’abo ...
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Injection room saves 30 lives
Wednesday, 03 April 2013Staff at Copenhagen’s first legal drug injection room have saved 30 lives since it opened last autumn, according to metroXpress newspaper.The deputy mayor for social affairs, Mikkel Warming (Enhedsli ...
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Marijuana to fight drug addiction
Monday, 01 April 2013BBC Mundo reports that Bogotá is planning a system of "controlled consumption centers," where addicts could be weaned off more hard-core drugs, such as heroin or crack (bazuco), and slowly introduced ...
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