Items tagged with drug consumption rooms
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Norway mulls decriminalising heroin smoking [28.02.2013] | The Norwegian government it wants to decriminalise the inhalation of heroin, a method considered less dangerous than injecting it, to reduce the numb ... |
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 ... |
Insite - Not Just Injecting, But Connecting [16.01.2013] | Last year the HCLU’s video advocacy group travelled to Vancouver, to make a film about Insite, the only legally-operating injecting facility in North ... |
City Council planning more injection rooms [09.01.2013] | 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 mo ... |
End of the road for the fix on wheels [26.11.2012] | Mobile injection rooms have been operated for the past year out of two former ambulances. Run by the private organisation Foreningen Fixerum and staf ... |
Bogotá’s medical care centres for drug addicts (CAMAD) [31.10.2012] | In September 2012, the mayor of Bogotá, Gustavo Petro, launched the first centre for drug addicts in the Bronx, a marginalised city-centre neighbourh ... |
Drug ‘shooting galleries’ to be tested by France [22.10.2012] | 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 [20.08.2012] | 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 of p ... |
The War on Drugs and HIV/AIDS [24.06.2012] | The global war on drugs is driving the HIV pandemic among people who use drugs and their sexual partners. Throughout the world, research has consiste ... |
Drug consumption rooms [19.06.2012] | 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 vari ... |
Hollande will not go Dutch on cannabis [17.05.2012] | 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 [25.04.2012] | Many residents of Vesterbro have lived alongside the local homeless and drug-addict populations for decades. But for the sake of the drug users’ heal ... |
Injection room finally finds a home [18.04.2012] | 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 ... |
The great debate that no one's talking about [03.12.2011] | Scientists, lawyers, police, social workers, doctors and directors of public prosecution are pleading for change but no political party will touch th ... |
Injection rooms approved, but advocates wonder what’s next [29.11.2011] | The thirty-five year fight to establish permanent injection rooms for drug addicts is now over after the government announced last week that such fac ... |
The State of Harm Reduction in Europe [02.11.2011] | The film crew of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) attended the first meeting of the European Harm Reduction Network (EuroHRN) in Marseille, ... |
Injection room operator: Political indecision will cost lives [25.10.2011] | The 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 Micha ... |
Opinion | Injection rooms save lives [13.10.2011] | On Monday September 12 Denmark’s first mobile injection room made its maiden voyage, driving from Victoriagade to Reventlowsgade behind Central Stati ... |
U.S. wanted Vancouver's supervised injection site closed [30.09.2011] | A diplomatic cable shows U.S. officials opposed the Insite supervised injection site in Vancouver and wanted the federal and municipal governments to ... |
B.C. drug injection clinic can stay open, Supreme Court rules [30.09.2011] | The Supreme Court of Canada has opened the door to supervised drug injection clinics across the country in a landmark decision that ordered the feder ... |
Mobile injection room rolls out [15.09.2011] | Two out-of-service ambulances have been put back into service as mobile injection rooms for drug addicts in Copenhagen (Denmark). The vehicles will b ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
No evidence to contradict studies that supervised drug injections save addicts’ lives [12.05.2011] | Under tough judicial grilling, the Harper government conceded it had no evidence to counter scientific research showing supervised drug injections sa ... |
Former mayors speak out for Insite [11.05.2011] | Divided 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 co ... |
Globe editorial: Supervised injection for the sake of public health [11.05.2011] | Vancouver’s supervised drug-injection clinic, Insite, saves lives and prevents human misery. Providing addicts with a safe, sterile place to inject h ... |
The arguments for and against Vancouver’s supervised injection site [11.05.2011] | When the Supreme Court of Canada convenes to consider Vancouver’s supervised injection site, it will hear detailed arguments that hinge on the fine p ... |
Counterpoint: Drug addicts can’t recover if they’re already dead [20.04.2011] | InSite does not operate under the assumption that addiction is incurable. We believe in recovery; in fact, the biggest difference between our approac ... |
It’s time to inject some Insite into this campaign [19.04.2011] | For all the thunderous warnings about Stephen Harper’s hidden agenda, there has been remarkably little talk in this election about one of the few rea ... |
Dying for a change on safe-injection site [18.04.2011] | A health-care facility that saves lives and prevents the transmission of deadly diseases should be hailed as an innovative advancement in medical car ... |
Vancouver's safe injection site cuts overdose deaths [18.04.2011] | The number of drug-overdose deaths on Vancouver’s notorious downtown Eastside fell sharply after the opening of a safe injection site, new research s ... |
Injection drug facility coming to San Francisco? [06.02.2011] | A 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 ... |
The Dutch treatment and social support system for drug users [15.01.2011] | This paper, written in collaboration with the Correlation Network, briefly describes the history and the basic elements of the Dutch drug dependence ... |
France mulls opening 'shooting galleries' for drug addicts [24.09.2010] | French officials across the political spectrum have expressed support for "shooting galleries", where addicts could use drugs under medical supervisi ... |
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 ... |
Safe injection site still not safe [30.05.2008] | Ignoring all the scientific evidence, Canada Health Minister Tony Clement will move to close Canada's only sanctioned safe-injection site, announcing ... |
Canada drug law contributes to the harm it seeks to prevent [28.05.2008] | In a surprise ruling yesterday, the British Colombia Supreme Court supported Vancouver's experimental supervised injection clinic Insite - North Amer ... |
“I inject less as I have easier access to pipes” [30.04.2007] | 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 amo ... |
European report on drug consumption rooms [01.02.2004] | Drug consumption rooms have been established in several countries, where confirmed drug users are allowed to consume their drugs in hygienic conditio ... |
Evaluation of the work of drug consumption rooms in the Federal Republic of Germany [01.07.2003] | Besides the classic approaches (drug counselling centres, therapy for substance abuse) there exist reform and pilot projects to develop alternative w ... |
Drug Consumption Rooms [01.04.2003] | 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 wer ... |
Flexibility of treaty provisions [30.09.2002] | In a confidential and authoritative memorandum to the INCB, UNODC legal experts argue that most harm reduction measures are in fact acceptable under ... |
Use of Narcotic Drugs in Public Injection Rooms under Public International Law [07.01.2000] | State-controlled public injection rooms are not expressly referred to in any of the relevant international conventions. It is thus necessary to dete ... |
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