Unlike the media and many officials, we should worry less about random group activity and more about the crises black youth face in the realms of employment, education, health, and justice.
Archive for August, 2011
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Posted in: Education & Youth, United States
Topics: Black Youth, Campaign for Black Male Achievement, Cathy Cohen, CBMA, Democracy and Power Fund, flash mobs, Voting
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Igor Kuzmenko chronicles how opioid substitution therapy can offer drug users in Ukraine the chance to stabilize their lives and start anew.
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By moving the matter of drug use and personal possession out of the domain of law enforcement and into that of public health, Portugal proves that decriminalization does not increase drug use.
Posted in: Europe, Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: drug decriminalization, drug policy, Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch, Portugal
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Access to naloxone, an antidote to opiate overdose, is not only saving lives around the world but also giving drug users hope for a second chance.
Posted in: Africa, Asia, Europe, Health, Latin America & the Caribbean, Middle East, United States
Topics: #OD11, Azadeh Momenghalibaf, Drug Policy Alliance, drug users, Eurasian Harm Reducation Network, harm reduction, Harm Reduction Coalition, I'm the Evidence Naloxone Works, opiates, Overdose Awareness Day, Roxanne Saucier, video, Xin Deming
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When two-month-old Rosleidi fell ill, her mother, Roxana, counted on the family's health insurance to provide her daughter with the care she needed. Were it only so simple.
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The first-ever Freedom from Fear Awards honored ordinary people who have committed extraordinary acts of courage on behalf of immigrants and refugees.
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The Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, which is marking its 50th anniversary, remains the best international tool we have to help the more than 12 million people around the world who have no nationality anywhere.
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Muammar Qaddafi’s recent offer to talk has raised the question of whether the transition to peace is helped or hampered by a public International Criminal Court arrest warrant. Would keeping indictments confidential facilitate justice?
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Naloxone is a safe, easy-to-use antidote to overdose from heroin or other opioids that can be administered by just about anyone with minimal training, but in many countries, legal and policy barriers are keeping it out of the hands of those who need it most.
Posted in: Africa, Asia, Europe, Health, Latin America & the Caribbean, Middle East, United States
Topics: Amy Winehouse, Azadeh Momenghalibaf, Chicago Recovery Alliance, codein, harm reduction, heroin, hydromorphone, International Overdose Awarness Day, morphine, naloxone, opiate overdose, opioids, oxycodone, vicodin
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Last Thursday felt like time for a toast for America’s largest social movement, the folks fighting for immigrant rights. With the news that the Obama administration would review many of its pending 300,000 deportation cases and allow some of those with no “criminal” record to stay, you could...