Portugal won the war on drugs by giving up. What lessons can South Africa learn from their approach?
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As in other parts of the world, the war on drugs in Southeast Asian countries has huge social, moral and medical costs. Now, an approach that places harm reduction at its centre is gaining support.
Safer drug consumption rooms can cut overdose deaths and reduce public nuisance. Other countries use them – isn’t it time the UK did too?
Opiates have emerged as a significant threat to public health in the UK.
The Senate passed a bill July 13 to address the opioid epidemic. Georgia recently passed a bill that would limit rather than expand the number of treatment centers. Could others follow suit?
As congressional leaders today discuss legislation to curb the opioid epidemic, we look at three articles that explain how it happened and one that suggests some solutions.
Methadone is used mainly to treat dependence on heroin, but also other prescription drugs. It is sometimes used to treat severe chronic pain.
A book about drug addiction and prostitution aimed at ‘young adults’ was a very daring thing 20 years ago.
Heroin was used medically in Australia for coughs and pain relief until 1953.
The UK may have signed the UN drugs convention – with its emphasis on prohibition – but that doesn’t mean it can’t legalise the drug.
We don’t know enough about the people who use painkillers non-medically to make the judgement that there is a natural transition from legal to illicit drug use.
Hoping to avoid the pitfalls and tropes of drug genre photography, documentary photographer Aaron Goodman spent a year following three addicts enrolled in a heroin-assisted treatment program.
We are witnessing widespread abuse of legal, prescribed drugs that, while structurally similar to illicit opioids such as heroin, are used for sound medical practices. So how did we get here?
Be careful: many of us have tried at least two of them.
With use of drugs such as ice on the rise, drug consumption rooms are now being set up in Europe to provide supervised inhalation.
Why have the demographics of heroin use changed so much? For that, we can look to dramatic increase in prescriptions for opioid painkillers, such as Oxycontin or Vicodin.
Naloxone, commonly known as Narcan, is a medicine that temporarily reverses the effects of opioid drugs such as heroin, morphine and oxycodone.
Danny Boyle’s pop heroin fable defined an era and made the careers of everyone involved. Here are a few reasons to be wary of the sequel - and a possible happy ending.
Stigma toward heroin use might prevent a lot of people from using the drug, but these attitudes don’t help people who are dependent.
The myth has been debunked time and time again.
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Honorary Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
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Emeritus Consultant, St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Bentley University
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Professor in Substance Use, Liverpool John Moores University
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Professor and Deputy Director, Monash Addiction Research Centre, Monash University
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Professor of Neuropharmacology, University of Lancashire
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Professor of History, University of Johannesburg
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Adjunct Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne based), Curtin University
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Professor in Criminology, Loughborough University
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Professor in Criminal Justice and Faculty Director of Public Engagement, University of Kent
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PhD candidate, Centre of Criminology, University of Cape Town
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Professor in Conflict and Development Studies, SOAS, University of London
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NHMRC Senior Research Fellow, Burnet Institute
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Professor, National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University and Burnet Institute, Burnet Institute
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Research Fellow, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW