international

Women in Mexico’s Narco World Face Misogyny and Murder

It was a sunny day in Culiacán, the capital of both Sinaloa state in northwest Mexico and, arguably, of the…

August 13, 2019

Canadian Prison Safe Consumption Site Sparks Heated Harm Reduction Debate

Safe consumption spaces and sterile syringe programs are major rallying points for the harm reduction movement. But in an unlikely…

August 12, 2019

The World Health Organization Blithely Denies Vaping Science

In a recent report on global tobacco control policy, the World Health Organization (WHO) continues to deny a growing body…

August 8, 2019

Exclusion, Censorship, Internment: Brazilian Drug Policy Under Bolsonaro

The situation for harm reductionists here in Brazil continues to deteriorate. A decree signed by President Jair Bolsonaro and published…

July 30, 2019

African Experts Explain Their Challenges in Reducing Tobacco Harms

Major obstacles to tobacco harm reduction exist in high-income, “western” countries from the United States to Australia. Yet it’s vital…

July 29, 2019

India Persecutes Leading Legal Advocate for People Who Use Drugs

The Indian High Court would not have become the first in the world to strike down mandatory death penalties for…

July 25, 2019

When Harm Reduction Expansion Stifles Activism: A Lesson From Europe

For six weeks this summer I had the extraordinary opportunity to visit harm reduction programs all over Western Europe. In…

July 23, 2019

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