Items tagged with denmark and drug consumption rooms
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How a man with a van is challenging UK drug policy [21.11.2020] | Every Friday for the past two months, Peter Krykant has parked his white van on Parnie Street in central Glasgow and waited for people to come by and ... |
How 'fixing rooms' are saving the lives of drug addicts [21.11.2018] | All over Europe, every day, many thousands of people will inject heroin in drug consumption rooms. But none of these will be in the UK, where drug ad ... |
Sweden's zero-tolerance drug policy should be reviewed: narcotics officer [14.06.2018] | Sweden's current policy is based on the goal of a "drug-free society" and makes no distinction between "hard" and "soft" drugs. Those found guilty of ... |
Is Sweden's zero-tolerance approach to drugs a failing model? [17.05.2018] | Sweden is accustomed to being praised for its forward-thinking approach, but there's one area where many feel it lies behind the curve. The country's ... |
Copenhagen’s drug injection rooms a success story, mayor says [14.06.2017] | The lives of drug addicts who overdose can often be saved, provided they are using a drug injection room, figures show. Since two fixerums were opene ... |
Why addicts take drugs in 'fix rooms' [09.01.2017] | Britain could soon see its first "fix room" for drug users - a safe space where addicts can take illegal narcotics under medical supervision. But who ... |
Scandinavia’s largest drug injection room opens in Copenhagen [13.08.2016] | H17, a new drug consumption room (fixerum), officially opens in Copenhagen. H17 was designed and decorated to specially suit the needs of drug users, ... |
Drug injection rooms a resounding success [26.05.2015] | The 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 ... |
Drug-related deaths down [24.11.2013] | "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 Minist ... |
Drug rooms: Admirers eye Copenhagen model [29.10.2013] | As a senior police official in northern England calls for safe rooms for the injection of hard drugs, attention has focused on similar projects aroun ... |
Inside Denmark's 'fixing rooms', where nurses watch as addicts inject in safety [04.05.2013] | Since the launch of the room, the quantity of drug paraphernalia collected from gutters, playgrounds, stairwells and doorways in the area has halved. ... |
Injection room saves 30 lives [03.04.2013] | Staff at Copenhagen’s first legal drug injection room have saved 30 lives since it opened last autumn, according to metroXpress newspaper.The deputy ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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