Tag: drug consumption rooms
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Norway mulls decriminalising heroin smoking
Thursday, 28 February 2013The Norwegian government it wants to decriminalise the inhalation of heroin, a method considered less dangerous than injecting it, to reduce the number of overdoses in the country. The move would mak ...
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Drug users to have secure site in Paris
Monday, 11 February 2013Drug users in France will soon have a state-sanctioned place where they can use heroin, crack and other intravenous drugs, after the government approved a pilot site in Paris. The City Council had al ...
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Insite - Not Just Injecting, But Connecting
Wednesday, 16 January 2013Last year the HCLU’s video advocacy group travelled to Vancouver, to make a film about Insite, the only legally-operating injecting facility in North America. When we arrived at Hastings Street, in V ...
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City Council planning more injection rooms
Wednesday, 09 January 2013The injection room for drug users that opened in Vesterbro last October has been such a success that the City Council is considering opening three more in other parts of Copenhagen. It took Vesterbro ...
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End of the road for the fix on wheels
Monday, 26 November 2012Mobile injection rooms have been operated for the past year out of two former ambulances. Run by the private organisation Foreningen Fixerum and staffed by volunteer healthcare workers, the rooms-on- ...
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Bogotá’s medical care centres for drug addicts (CAMAD)
Wednesday, 31 October 2012
In September 2012, the mayor of Bogotá, Gustavo Petro, launched the first centre for drug addicts in the Bronx, a marginalised city-centre neighbourhood. Called the Medical Care Centre for Dependent ...
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Drug ‘shooting galleries’ to be tested by France
Monday, 22 October 2012France’s health minister, Marisol Touraine, has said trial centres where drug addicts can safely inject their own drugs with sterile needles provided by medical professionals could open before the en ...
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Colombian prosecutor calls for drug legalisation referendum
Monday, 20 August 2012Colombia's chief public prosecutor has called for a referendum on whether to legalise drug consumption, in response to plans to set up a network of public centres where users can consume illicit drug ...
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The War on Drugs and HIV/AIDS
Sunday, 24 June 2012
The global war on drugs is driving the HIV pandemic among people who use drugs and their sexual partners. Throughout the world, research has consistently shown that repressive drug law enforcement pr ...
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Drug consumption rooms
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
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 variety of countries in Western Europe, North America ...
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Hollande will not go Dutch on cannabis
Thursday, 17 May 2012The new president of France, François Hollande, is not likely to change cannabis policies. His choice as Minister of the Interior, Manuel Valls, is a declared opponent to any reform on cannabis. Duri ...
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Residents prickled over site of injection room
Wednesday, 25 April 2012Many residents of Vesterbro have lived alongside the local homeless and drug-addict populations for decades. But for the sake of the drug users’ health – as well as the hope to reduce crime and avoid ...
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Injection room finally finds a home
Wednesday, 18 April 2012Some 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 law change that will decriminalise the taking of d ...
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The great debate that no one's talking about
Saturday, 03 December 2011Scientists, lawyers, police, social workers, doctors and directors of public prosecution are pleading for change but no political party will touch the issue in Australia. Public debate on the subject ...
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Injection rooms approved, but advocates wonder what’s next
Tuesday, 29 November 2011The thirty-five year fight to establish permanent injection rooms for drug addicts is now over after the government announced last week that such facilities would be up and running by 2013. But long- ...
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The State of Harm Reduction in Europe
Wednesday, 02 November 2011The film crew of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) attended the first meeting of the European Harm Reduction Network (EuroHRN) in Marseille, France. We interviewed professionals and activist ...
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Injection room operator: Political indecision will cost lives
Tuesday, 25 October 2011The government’s indecision over plans to set up a permanent injection room for drug addicts may cost the lives of over 100 users, according to Michael Lodberg Olsen, the organiser of a mobile inject ...
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Opinion | Injection rooms save lives
Thursday, 13 October 2011On Monday September 12 Denmark’s first mobile injection room made its maiden voyage, driving from Victoriagade to Reventlowsgade behind Central Station. The room is actually an outdated German ambula ...
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U.S. wanted Vancouver's supervised injection site closed
Friday, 30 September 2011A diplomatic cable shows U.S. officials opposed the Insite supervised injection site in Vancouver and wanted the federal and municipal governments to shut it down. The reference to Vancouver-based In ...
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B.C. drug injection clinic can stay open, Supreme Court rules
Friday, 30 September 2011The Supreme Court of Canada has opened the door to supervised drug injection clinics across the country in a landmark decision that ordered the federal government to stop interfering with Vancouver’s ...
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Mobile injection room rolls out
Thursday, 15 September 2011Two out-of-service ambulances have been put back into service as mobile injection rooms for drug addicts in Copenhagen (Denmark). The vehicles will be used to transport a team of volunteer doctors an ...
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In booming Brazil, crack strikes late but hard
Monday, 18 July 2011About two decades after the U.S. emerged from the worst of its own crack epidemic, Brazilian authorities are watching the cheap drug spread across this country of 190 million people. They have far fe ...
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Insite’s next battle: supervised inhalation
Saturday, 14 May 2011Insite’s operators have twice applied for a federal health exemption to allow crack cocaine smokers to use the room – the request was rejected in 2006, ignored in 2009. Proponents say the room would ...
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No evidence to contradict studies that supervised drug injections save addicts’ lives
Thursday, 12 May 2011Under tough judicial grilling, the Harper government conceded it had no evidence to counter scientific research showing supervised drug injections save lives and reduce harm to addicts. Federal lawye ...
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Former mayors speak out for Insite
Wednesday, 11 May 2011Divided by politics but united by drug policy, five former Vancouver mayors have issued a last-minute plea to Ottawa to drop its appeal of earlier court decisions approving Insite, the city’s supervi ...
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Globe editorial: Supervised injection for the sake of public health
Wednesday, 11 May 2011Vancouver’s supervised drug-injection clinic, Insite, saves lives and prevents human misery. Providing addicts with a safe, sterile place to inject heroin and other drugs is a pragmatic and effective ...
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The arguments for and against Vancouver’s supervised injection site
Wednesday, 11 May 2011When the Supreme Court of Canada convenes to consider Vancouver’s supervised injection site, it will hear detailed arguments that hinge on the fine print of the Canadian Constitution. But besides bei ...
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Counterpoint: Drug addicts can’t recover if they’re already dead
Wednesday, 20 April 2011InSite does not operate under the assumption that addiction is incurable. We believe in recovery; in fact, the biggest difference between our approach to recovery and the opinion expressed by Barbara ...
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It’s time to inject some Insite into this campaign
Tuesday, 19 April 2011For all the thunderous warnings about Stephen Harper’s hidden agenda, there has been remarkably little talk in this election about one of the few real examples of Conservative social conservatism – n ...
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Dying for a change on safe-injection site
Monday, 18 April 2011A health-care facility that saves lives and prevents the transmission of deadly diseases should be hailed as an innovative advancement in medical care – not a political football to be punted around b ...
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Vancouver's safe injection site cuts overdose deaths
Monday, 18 April 2011The number of drug-overdose deaths on Vancouver’s notorious downtown Eastside fell sharply after the opening of a safe injection site, new research shows. The study, published online Monday in the me ...
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Injection drug facility coming to San Francisco?
Sunday, 06 February 2011A legal, city-funded center where intravenous drug users can get needles and shoot up without consequence is on the agenda in San Francisco. The idea comes from the city's Hepatitis C Task Force, cre ...
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The Dutch treatment and social support system for drug users
Saturday, 15 January 2011
This paper, written in collaboration with the Correlation Network, briefly describes the history and the basic elements of the Dutch drug dependence treatment policy, including recent trends in drug ...
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France mulls opening 'shooting galleries' for drug addicts
Friday, 24 September 2010French officials across the political spectrum have expressed support for "shooting galleries", where addicts could use drugs under medical supervision. Such centres exist in several other European c ...
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Smoking of crack cocaine as a risk factor for HIV infection among people who use injection drugs
Tuesday, 27 October 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 risk factor for HIV seroconversion among injection ...
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Safe injection site still not safe
Friday, 30 May 2008Ignoring all the scientific evidence, Canada Health Minister Tony Clement will move to close Canada's only sanctioned safe-injection site, announcing it will appeal a British Colombia court ruling th ...
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Canada drug law contributes to the harm it seeks to prevent
Wednesday, 28 May 2008In a surprise ruling yesterday, the British Colombia Supreme Court supported Vancouver's experimental supervised injection clinic Insite - North America's first legal supervised injection site - and ...
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“I inject less as I have easier access to pipes”
Monday, 30 April 2007
Among injection drug users (IDUs) in Ottawa, the capital of Canada, prevalence rates of HIV (20.6 percent) and hepatitis C HCV (75.8 percent) are among the highest in Canada. Recent research evidence ...
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European report on drug consumption rooms
Sunday, 01 February 2004
Drug consumption rooms have been established in several countries, where confirmed drug users are allowed to consume their drugs in hygienic conditions and without fear of arrest. These facilities, w ...
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Evaluation of the work of drug consumption rooms in the Federal Republic of Germany
Tuesday, 01 July 2003
Besides the classic approaches (drug counselling centres, therapy for substance abuse) there exist reform and pilot projects to develop alternative ways of helping. These are intended for longtime dr ...
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Drug Consumption Rooms
Tuesday, 01 April 2003
The first drug consumption room for opiate-dependent persons in Germany was opened in Frankfort on the Main in December 1994. In March 2003 there were 19 drug consumption rooms in the Federal Republi ...
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Flexibility of treaty provisions
Monday, 30 September 2002In a confidential and authoritative memorandum to the INCB, UNODC legal experts argue that most harm reduction measures are in fact acceptable under the conventions. According to the Legal Affairs Se ...
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Use of Narcotic Drugs in Public Injection Rooms under Public International Law
Friday, 07 January 2000
State-controlled public injection rooms are not expressly referred to in any of the relevant international conventions. It is thus necessary to determine, by way of a preliminary factual enquiry, t ...
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