Tag: international
Eurasian States Pouring Money Into Incarceration, Not Harm Reduction
Harm reduction funding around the world is stalling. By extension, harm reductionists in Eastern ...
Photo Essay: Inside Australia’s Safe Consumption Sites
While officials in the US—and the UK where I live—debate the introduction of safe ...
Harm Reduction Is Growing in Scotland—But So Are Overdose Deaths
In November 2018, Scotland launched a revised national drug policy that prioritizes recovery resources, ...
Innovative Canadian “Street Degree” Empowers Peer Harm Reduction Workers
In British Columbia, an entirely peer-taught overdose prevention “Street Degree” program has graduated its ...
Bolsonaro Cuts Harm Reduction, Escalates Drug War
Largely unreported in English-language news media, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has pulled the plug ...
Sri Lanka President Uses Easter Attacks to Fuel Duterte-Inspired Drug War
For Sri Lankan president Maithripala Sirisena, the War on Drugs and the War on ...
How the World’s Oldest Drug Checking Service Makes High-Risk Pills “Unsellable”
Don’t sit on your day job,” Daan van der Gouwe advised people who operate ...
Why Worldwide Drug Policy Progress Is Driven From the Ground Up
In many places across the world, progress toward harm reduction, decriminalization and legalization is ...
Huge Harm Reduction Gathering Allows Portugal to Teach the World
To walk down the hill to the Douro River in Porto on a sunny ...
British Police Are Raising Their Voices Against the Drug War
Police are very, very good at catching drug dealers, but that’s part of the ...
