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Naloxone Is Cost-effective Way to Prevent Heroin Overdose Deaths

Distributing naloxone more widely to heroin users would reduce the number of deaths due to overdose and would be a cost-effective intervention, according to a mathematical model described in the January 1, 2013,Annals of Internal Medicine. Providing naloxone to prescription opiate users would prevent even more deaths.

Published
04 January 2013
From
HIVandHepatitis.com
Injecting drug use
Consider drugs decriminalisation system, MPs say

The UK government is being urged by MPs to closely consider a system of drugs decriminalisation used in Portugal.

Published
10 December 2012
From
BBC
Injecting drug use
New EMCDDA report shows heroin use in decline and patterns of drug use shifting

Since the 1970s, heroin has held centre stage in Europe’s drugs scene and is still responsible for the largest share of drug-related diseases and deaths in the EU. But while heroin-related problems continue, they do so at lower levels, says the EU drugs agency (EMCDDA).

Published
05 December 2012
From
European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
Finance and funding
Health officials tell Greece to act fast to control HIV

A spiraling outbreak of HIV in debt-stricken Greece could run out of control unless urgent action is taken, European health officials said on Friday.

Published
01 December 2012
From
Reuters
Injecting drug use
New HIV Epidemic Looms over Romania

New HIV infections among Romanian drug users have grown exponentially over the past couple of years. International and national groups working for HIV prevention expect the emerging epidemic to expand over the next years, despite causes for the rise in cases being relatively easy to pin down.

Published
30 November 2012
From
Inter Press Service
HIV prevention policy
Michel Kazatchkine: Change in attitude needed in eastern Europe and central Asia

Only a change in mindset among the region’s political classes towards a public health policy approach will save the region from a human tragedy.

Published
30 November 2012
From
Financial Times
Injecting drug use
HIV Soars Among Greece's Drug Users While Programs Cut

HIV infections among drug users in Greece jumped more than 20-fold in fewer than two years, fueled by a lack of needle exchange and methadone programs, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.

Published
30 November 2012
From
Bloomberg BusinessWeek
Hepatitis C transmission and prevention
Sharing drug preparation equipment a potential source of hepatitis C transmission

Drug users who share injecting equipment such as water, filters and water containers are potentially putting themselves at risk of infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV), according

Published
27 November 2012
By
Michael Carter
Injecting drug use
Vietnam’s largest, and very successful, harm reduction programme

Since 2004, a large-scale harm reduction programme, supported by UK aid and World Bank, has been providing clean needles and syringes for drug users and condoms to sex workers in 32 of Vietnam’s 64 provinces. This has proven to be successful in reducing the number of new HIV infections among key populations.

Published
26 November 2012
From
International HIV/AIDS Alliance
Injecting drug use
UNAIDS Report: No Love for Drug Users

The UNAIDS annual report released yesterday is a testament to great progress—new HIV infections and AIDS deaths are down sharply in many African countries that have been devastated by the HIV epidemic. But this success stands in stark contrast to the losses in Eastern Europe, where the HIV toll keeps climbing and remains concentrated among people who inject drugs.

Published
26 November 2012
From
Open Society Foundations
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