Tag: international
Italy’s Rocky Road From Harsh Prohibition to “Cannabis Light”
According to the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction, 10 percent of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Filter Video: Inside Portugal’s First Mobile Safe Consumption Site
In April of this year, Portugal, a country well known for having decriminalized all ...
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 ...
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 ...
