In the small town of Malindi, Kenya, women who use drugs will never receive the services they deserve until the community listens to their needs.
Posts Tagged “drug treatment”
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Posted in: Africa, Education & Youth, Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: citizenship, criminal justice, drug policy, drug treatment, harm reduction, HIV/AIDS, human rights, Kenya, malaria, Malindi, needle exchange, police abuse, pregnancy, public health, sex workers, statelessness, Umra Omar, women
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New York is poised to take further steps to remove young people from the lifelong negative consequences of prosecution and incarceration in the adult criminal justice system.
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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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Over the past decade, governments have increasingly turned to arbitrary detention, cruelty, and even torture in order to combat drug abuse.
Posted in: Asia, Europe, Health, Latin America & the Caribbean, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Cambodia, Campaign to Stop Torture in Health Care, China, drug detention, drug policy, drug treatment, drug users, forced labor, harm reduction, HIV/AIDS, human rights, international justice, Mexico, public health, Roxanne Saucier, Russia, torture, war on drugs
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In Thailand, the drug war has failed to stem the spread of HIV among injection drug users. New video testimony suggests harm reduction services are needed instead.
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Ahead of a visit from Barack Obama, Polish president Bronislaw Komorowski has signed an amendment to his country's drug law.
Posted in: Europe, Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: drug policy, drug treatment, drug users, EU, global drug policy, Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch, Poland, war on drugs
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Governments across the globe increasingly detain people who use drugs against their will in the name of rehabilitation. Two prominent medical organizations are condemning this practice, calling for drug detention facilities to be closed immediately.
Posted in: Asia, Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: Campaign to Stop Torture in Health Care, drug detention, drug policy, drug treatment, harm reduction, Helsinki Declaration, HIV/AIDS, human rights, International Federation of Health and Human Rights Organizations, Sarah Evans, torture, World Medical Association
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Canada's top court heard arguments last week in a case about the future of Insite, North America’s first safe-injection site. But the case should never have gone to court.
Posted in: Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: British Columbia, Canada, drug policy, drug treatment, drug users, human rights, Insite, overdose, Sarah Evans, Stephen Harper, supervised injection, Supreme Court
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In approving a new treatment for heroin addiction, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration relied on a single efficacy trial in Russia. That decision may put patients' health and safety at risk.
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I've just arrived in Lebanon, which has announced it will legalize sales of a safe and effective medicine that reduces dependency on heroin and other opiates. It also helps lower HIV infection rates and saves lives.