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On this page you will find the latest relevant updates on a broad range of health and policy related topics, including HIV, hepatitis C, drug use, overdose prevention, harm reduction, drug treatment and criminal justice.
Prisoners forced to withdraw from methadone less likely to seek community treatment: Lancet study
29 May 2015
A study published today in The Lancet by US researchers and NDARC NHMRC postdoctoral fellow Dr Sarah Larney has provided further evidence for the effectiveness of methadone maintenance treatment in prisons.
29 May 2015
A study published today in The Lancet by US researchers and NDARC NHMRC postdoctoral fellow Dr Sarah Larney has provided further evidence for the effectiveness of methadone maintenance treatment in prisons.
Kofi Annan calls on the World Health Assembly to legally regulate drugs
28 May 2015
“I believe that drugs have destroyed many lives, but wrong government policies have destroyed many more”
28 May 2015
“I believe that drugs have destroyed many lives, but wrong government policies have destroyed many more”
How America overdosed on drug courts
21 May 2015
Drug courts embolden judges to practice medicine without a license—and they put lives in danger
21 May 2015
Drug courts embolden judges to practice medicine without a license—and they put lives in danger
Heroin users to be given naloxone in Cork
21 May 2015
Heroin addicts, their friends, and immediate relations are to be provided with a series of measures, including an antidote to the Class A drug, in an effort to prevent deaths from overdosing
21 May 2015
Heroin addicts, their friends, and immediate relations are to be provided with a series of measures, including an antidote to the Class A drug, in an effort to prevent deaths from overdosing
Fighting HIV where no-one admits it's a problem
21 May 2015
For years Russia has remained remarkably silent on the challenge it faces from HIV and Aids. Now that silence has been broken by an epidemiologist who has been working in the field for more than two decades - and he calls the situation "a national catastrophe".
21 May 2015
For years Russia has remained remarkably silent on the challenge it faces from HIV and Aids. Now that silence has been broken by an epidemiologist who has been working in the field for more than two decades - and he calls the situation "a national catastrophe".
The Battle for Harm Reduction Continues in Budapest
18 May 2015
The HCLU’s Drugreporter has warned that rates of hepatitis-C infection among injecting drug users in Budapest almost doubled between 2011 and 2014 – in a period when access to harm reduction programs rapidly decreased.
18 May 2015
The HCLU’s Drugreporter has warned that rates of hepatitis-C infection among injecting drug users in Budapest almost doubled between 2011 and 2014 – in a period when access to harm reduction programs rapidly decreased.
Hepatitis C drugs added to WHO list of essential medicine
12 May 2015
The World Health Organization has released a new version of the Model List of Essential Medicines. This includes new treatment options for hepatitis C.
12 May 2015
The World Health Organization has released a new version of the Model List of Essential Medicines. This includes new treatment options for hepatitis C.
New report suggests Ottawa drug users would benefit from safe injection site
12 May 2015
A new study suggests a significant number of Ottawa’s most serious drug addicts would use a safe injection site if one ever opened in this city.
12 May 2015
A new study suggests a significant number of Ottawa’s most serious drug addicts would use a safe injection site if one ever opened in this city.
The impact of drug policy on public health
12 May 2015
Side event organised by UNAIDS, OSF and Harm Reduction International
12 May 2015
Side event organised by UNAIDS, OSF and Harm Reduction International
Painkiller addiction spawns new threat: Hepatitis C
11 May 2015
Public health officials are bracing for a new wave of hepatitis C infections, one unleashed by the epidemic of prescription painkiller addiction.
11 May 2015
Public health officials are bracing for a new wave of hepatitis C infections, one unleashed by the epidemic of prescription painkiller addiction.
