Showing 917 news articles about Harm reduction

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Harm reduction programmes and practices aim to reduce the harms associated with drug use. These include needle and syringe programmes, opioid substitution therapy, drug consumption rooms and overdose prevention.

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Interventions for reducing hepatitis C infection in people who inject drugs

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Medical Xpress
27 September 2017
Drug policy & policing

I used to support legalizing all drugs. Then the opioid epidemic happened.

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Vox
25 September 2017
Harm reduction

The Social Life of Opioids

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Scientific American
19 September 2017
Harm reduction

Heroin addiction: Why we took on this 7-day project

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Cincinnati.com
12 September 2017
People who inject drugs

Seven Days of Heroin: This is what an epidemic looks like

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Cincinnati.com
12 September 2017
Harm reduction

Still no harm reduction? A critical review of the UK Government’s new Drug Strategy

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National AIDS Trust
11 September 2017
People who inject drugs

Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs issues stark warning on funding cuts

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Drink & Drug News
7 September 2017
Harm reduction

South Africa: Drug dependence isn’t a crime, it’s a medical condition

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Bhekisisa
6 September 2017
Chemsex & recreational drug use

Something for the weekend: one of the UK's first openly gay soldiers discusses his addiction to sex and drugs

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Independent
5 September 2017
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The First Count of Fentanyl Deaths in 2016: Up 540% in Three Years

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New York Times
2 September 2017
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Acceptability of low dead space syringes and implications for their introduction

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Drug & Alcohol Findings
29 August 2017
Hepatitis C transmission & prevention

Sharing injection paraphernalia does not lead to HCV transmission

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Healio
24 August 2017
Harm reduction

Scotland May Now Have Highest Rate of Drug-Related Deaths in the EU

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Talking Drugs
16 August 2017
Harm reduction

What Trump's National Opioid Emergency Should Look Like

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Vice
15 August 2017
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Responses to the new drug strategy

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Drink & Drug News
17 July 2017
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Why Did the Opioid Epidemic Develop and How Do We Stop It?

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The Body PRO
28 June 2017
HIV prevention policy

Washington DC reports sharp decline in new HIV infections

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Washington Post
28 June 2017
Drug policy & policing

Why opioid deaths are this generation’s Aids crisis

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The Guardian
27 June 2017
People who inject drugs

Covering America's 'testing ground' for responses to drug use, HIV risk

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Columbia Journalism Review
26 June 2017
Drug policy & policing

America's Latest Drug Epidemic Is Weirdly Nonviolent

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Vice
20 June 2017
Harm reduction

The opioid epidemic is making the fight against HIV more difficult

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Washington Post
14 June 2017
Drug policy & policing

Heroin's use rising, costing society more than $51 billion

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Eurekalert Medicine & Health
9 June 2017
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Almost one in three drugs overdoses in Europe recorded in UK

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The Guardian
7 June 2017
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Drug deaths on the rise in Europe for third year: report

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Reuters
7 June 2017