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New research reveals full risks of MDMA use – higher strength tablets, idiosyncratic toxicity, different strength within the same batch and varying rates of release.
The number of countries providing harm reduction interventions to prevent
drug-related death, HIV and hepatitis C has stalled since 2016.
Public Health England announces a quality improvement programme to keep heroin users in treatment.
Cross-Party Parliamentary Group issues a ten point charter to advance a more evidence-based approach to drug and alcohol issues.
Harm reduction, a focus on NPS & Chemsex and a national recovery champion all feature in the new drug strategy with the Home Office still taking the lead.
Latest biennial report from Harm Reduction International shows that many countries still refuse to implement harm reduction measures.
As you can see, there is slow take up of harm reduction across the world with very serious damaging consequences in countries such as the Philippines where HIV positive rates have soared to 42% amongst IV drug users.
Above all the manual offers a fundamental positive message that change is possible. Research shows that these clients are not as unmotivated as they seem. At least 40% of higher risk and dependent drinking clients will try and change each year. The Blue Light project provides the tools for building on this.
This post is a celebration of the increasing range and variety of online resources developed by the drug treatment world. It’s great to report that
One of the most fulfilling side-effects of writing a Blog is that you are more aware of and tend to read more blogs yourself. I
The mobile phone application market is huge, over half a million apps for iPhone and quarter of a million for Android phones. As I write
