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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.
Kabul residents watch as heroin addiction grows in Afghanistan
24 Dec 2014
As opium cultivation has soared in Afghanistan over the course of the war, heroin addiction levels have followed.
24 Dec 2014
As opium cultivation has soared in Afghanistan over the course of the war, heroin addiction levels have followed.
Cannabis-based medicine to be tested as child epilepsy therapy
24 Dec 2014
Doctors in the UK have been given the go-ahead to test a cannabis-based medicine called Epidiolex, which does not contain the ingredient that produces the high associated with recreational cannabis use.
24 Dec 2014
Doctors in the UK have been given the go-ahead to test a cannabis-based medicine called Epidiolex, which does not contain the ingredient that produces the high associated with recreational cannabis use.
Report documents success of state needle exchange program in New York
23 Dec 2014
In 1992, 52 percent of newly diagnosed AIDS cases in New York were among I.V. drug users. By 2012, intravenous drug users accounted for only 3 percent of new HIV diagnoses.
23 Dec 2014
In 1992, 52 percent of newly diagnosed AIDS cases in New York were among I.V. drug users. By 2012, intravenous drug users accounted for only 3 percent of new HIV diagnoses.
The biggest HIV/AIDS research breakthroughs of 2014
22 Dec 2014
Groundbreaking research is uncovering better ways to keep AIDS at bay and prevent HIV infection and transmission.
22 Dec 2014
Groundbreaking research is uncovering better ways to keep AIDS at bay and prevent HIV infection and transmission.
ADHD drugs increasingly prescribed to treat hyperactivity in pre-schoolers in UK
22 Dec 2014
A fifth of educational psychologists in UK say they know of children being given medication despite guidelines advising against it.
22 Dec 2014
A fifth of educational psychologists in UK say they know of children being given medication despite guidelines advising against it.
2014: The year we finally learned how to talk seriously about dying
22 Dec 2014
A new rule just approved in Massachusetts will reportedly make the state the first to require doctors to discuss with terminally ill patients how they wanted to be cared for at the end of their lives.
22 Dec 2014
A new rule just approved in Massachusetts will reportedly make the state the first to require doctors to discuss with terminally ill patients how they wanted to be cared for at the end of their lives.
Some drugs that show high cure rates for HCV in people with HIV co-infection
22 Dec 2014
With the advent of all-oral direct-acting antiviral regimens, a growing body of evidence indicates that people with co-infection have response rates similar to those of people with hepatitis C alone.
22 Dec 2014
With the advent of all-oral direct-acting antiviral regimens, a growing body of evidence indicates that people with co-infection have response rates similar to those of people with hepatitis C alone.
Reconsidering addiction and addiction treatment: A talk with Dr. Stanton Peele and DPA's asha bandele
21 Dec 2014
In this "telephone call", DPA and Dr.Stanton Peele discuss the differences between problematic drug use and addiction, realistic treatment options, and the relationship between addiction, stigma and drug policy reform.
21 Dec 2014
In this "telephone call", DPA and Dr.Stanton Peele discuss the differences between problematic drug use and addiction, realistic treatment options, and the relationship between addiction, stigma and drug policy reform.
Harm reduction programs need more flexibility to work properly in Eastern Europe
21 Dec 2014
Civil society expressing fears that rigidity of many opioid substitution therapy programs could drive away those who need them most.
21 Dec 2014
Civil society expressing fears that rigidity of many opioid substitution therapy programs could drive away those who need them most.
The Indian drugs legislation is too harsh to work
21 Dec 2014
The minimum sentence for drug dealing is imprisonment for 10 years and the government has even defended capital punishment.
21 Dec 2014
The minimum sentence for drug dealing is imprisonment for 10 years and the government has even defended capital punishment.
