international

Inside the Philippines Prison That Sparked Duterte’s Murderous Drug War

Twenty-three thousand dead. That’s the latest estimate—and maybe a low one—of people killed by President Rodrigo Duterte’s Philippines drug war.…

July 17, 2019

Why No Human Rights Section in 2019 UNODC World Drug Report?

Worldwide, more than half a million of people died from, or in relation to, illicit drug use in 2017, as…

June 27, 2019

The Harm Reductionist Imprisoned by Ukraine Separatists for Carrying Bupe

For 10 months now, a Ukrainian harm reduction activist has been illegally detained by the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), an…

June 26, 2019

Italy’s Rocky Road From Harsh Prohibition to “Cannabis Light”

According to the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction, 10 percent of Italian adults (age 15-64) reported using…

June 24, 2019

Harm Production: Ontario’s Brutal Cuts Add Fuel to the Overdose Fire

Viewed from the United States, Canada’s comparatively liberal social mores and universal healthcare would seem to set the stage for…

June 11, 2019

New Zealand Government Initiative Shows Welcome Support for Tobacco Harm Reduction

The New Zealand government has launched an online resource endorsing—and educating about— vaping products as valuable harm reduction tools for…

June 11, 2019

Filter Video: Inside Portugal’s First Mobile Safe Consumption Site

In April of this year, Portugal, a country well known for having decriminalized all drugs in 2001, got its first…

June 10, 2019

Mexico Public Health Agency Lashes Out Against Tobacco Harm Reduction

Mexico's consumer health protection agency has effectively denounced the US Food and Drug Administration's recent approval of IQOS, a heat-not-burn…

June 4, 2019

Eurasian States Pouring Money Into Incarceration, Not Harm Reduction

Harm reduction funding around the world is stalling. By extension, harm reductionists in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) are…

May 29, 2019

Photo Essay: Inside Australia’s Safe Consumption Sites

While officials in the US—and the UK where I live—debate the introduction of safe consumption spaces (SCS), it's important to…

May 29, 2019