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Heroin dependence treatment reduces HIV infections in Spain

Spain’s provision of methadone maintenance treatment for heroin dependence, combined with the distribution of sterile injecting equipment and access to treatment for AIDS, has led to a turnaround in the country’s HIV epidemic, according to a study published this month in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization.

Published
06 February 2013
From
Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques press release
Injecting drug use
Paris to try first clean drug room

FRANCE’S first legal shooting-gallery for injecting drug users is to be tested out in Paris, probably sited near Gare du Nord. The Prime Minister’s office said that the drug room – where users could inject under clean, supervised, hygienic conditions and without throwing used needles in the streets - would be overseen by the Mission Interministérielle de Lutte Contre les Drogues et Toxicomanies and the Ministry of Health.

Published
06 February 2013
From
The Connexion
Hepatitis C transmission and prevention
Spread of hepatitis C pinpointed

Scientists say they have, for the first time, worked out the pattern of spread of hepatitis C, showing that early diagnosis is key to halting epidemics.

Published
01 February 2013
From
BBC Health
Injecting drug use
Dave Purchase Dies at 73; Led Early Needle Exchange

Dave Purchase, a bearded biker who 24 years ago began handing out sterile syringes to prevent AIDS among drug addicts on the streets of Tacoma, Wash., and went on to become a national leader of the needle-exchange movement, died on Jan. 21 in Tacoma. He was 73.

Published
31 January 2013
From
New York Times
Recreational drug use
Is London’s gay scene self-harming through sex and drug use?

David Stuart of gay men's drug project Antidote discusses increases in the use of methamphetamine and mephedrone in London's gay scene and an increased tendency to inject them.

Published
24 January 2013
From
Pink News
Injecting drug use
Insite - Not Just Injecting, But Connecting

Insite is an injecting site - and so much more. Please watch our movie and learn why the Canadian government should not shut it down!

Published
21 January 2013
From
Drug Reporter
Injecting drug use
Better Syringe Designs Could Nearly Eradicate Global Annual HIV Infections from Syringe Sharing Within Eight Years

Switching the type of syringe used by people who inject drugs could help curb HIV transmission in countries with injection-driven epidemics within eight years, according to a new article which summarizes existing evidence regarding how low dead-space syringes can help reduce HIV transmission and estimates potential impacts on HIV transmission among people who inject drugs.

Published
16 January 2013
From
Newswise (press release)
Recreational drug use
High-risk drug practices tighten grip on London gay scene

The rise in use of crystal methamphetamine, with more men injecting drugs, is creating a perfect storm for transmission of both HIV and HCV, as well as a catalogue of mental health problems.

Published
11 January 2013
From
The Lancet
Policy
Greece HIV Remedies Hit as Crisis Threatens Drug Curbs

Greece’s efforts to control its debt crisis threaten to hobble the fight against an outbreak of HIV that has become the largest among drug users in the European Union.

Published
09 January 2013
From
Bloomberg
Injecting drug users
Rising Death in the Streets of Athens: The Human Toll of the Greek Tragedy

As Greece enters its third year of financial crisis, economic hardship and despair is fraying the country's social fabric. "The economic crisis has affected dramatically the lives of all Greeks, but people who use drugs were the hardest hit", says Charalampos Poulopoulos, director of the Therapy Center for Dependent Individuals (KETHEA).

Published
07 January 2013
From
Huffington Post
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