In Canada, the criminalisation of DULF's drug compassion club has been found to be unconstitutional - a momentous moment for ...

The FDA psychedelics hearing earlier this month highlighted a lot of enthusiasm for therapeutic access - albeit focused on ...

New research shows a link between psychedelic decriminalisation and improved outcomes in safety, therapeutic access, and psychosocial wellbeing.

The absence of tailored harm reduction for new injectors is a policy failure. But new WHO guidance provides an opportunity ...

The US Drug Enforcement Administration is waging what critics describe as a “scorched-earth campaign” against a growing class of obscure opioid compounds, raising questions about the agency’s ...

In 2020, the COVID pandemic closed borders, resulting in a massive rise in cost of living that forced many people into homelessness. This had two major impacts on the drug overdose crisis. First, ...

It was already around 2:30am – but the party was just getting started in the favela of Rocinha in Rio de Janeiro. Young ladies in short, tight dresses cavorted to the beats of funk – a distant, ...

2021 was a monumental year for harm reduction in the United States. In July, the country’s first bill legalising overdose prevention centres (OPCs) – often referred to in other parts of the world as ...

Over the past decade, these countries have emerged as Europe’s primary entry points for South American cocaine, reshaping not only criminal networks but also the social and political fabric of the ...

A new coalition will launch on 26 June with a simple demand: end the criminalisation of drug use in South Africa. In a country beset by collapsing harm reduction infrastructure, an HIV crisis, and ...

A man and woman are sitting in a room, the woman playing the piano, while both take drags from a joint. “Faster, play it faster!” the man demands, his face contorting from euphoric glee to something ...

Walking the streets of London on a Saturday or Sunday morning, it would almost be impossible to miss the discarded silver canisters of nitrous oxide littering the streets, remnants of the previous ...