As the drug overdose crisis evolves and becomes more complex, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is providing $301 million in new Overdose Data to Action funds to states and jurisdictions
Bibliography: Interventions – Harm Reduction
Drug overdoses can be prevented — new resources released
The EU drugs agency (EMCDDA) launches today three new resources looking at drug overdoses in Europe and the interventions in place to prevent them
Hepatitis C interventions (PDF)
Organisations providing harm reduction services in Europe – analysis and examples (European Harm Reduction Network)
Results from the 10 Prisons Project
Statistics on the level of assaults and random mandatory drug testing within the prisons taking part in the 10 Prisons Project (MoJ)
Unlinked Anonymous Monitoring (UAM) Survey of HIV and viral hepatitis among PWID: 2019 report (PDF)
The aim of the Unlinked Anonymous Monitoring (UAM) Survey of People Who Inject Drugs (PWID) is to monitor the prevalence and incidence of HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C infection, and associated injecting risk behaviour in people who inject psychoactive drugs, such as heroin, crack cocaine and amphetamines (Public Health England)
Cannabis and Mental Health (PDF)
Priorities for research in Canada (Mentalhealth Commission)
Australian NSP Survey National Data Report 2014 – 2018
The Australian Needle and Syringe Program Survey (ANSPS) provides serial point prevalence estimates of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) (antibody and RNA) and sexual and injecting risk behaviour among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Australia
Report calls for radical rethink on support given to released prisoners recovering from addiction
A major new report examining the help given to prisoners recovering from addiction has set out a series of “blueprints” which its authors say could “transform” the way prisoners are supported once they have served their sentence (University of York)
Drug-related infectious diseases in Europe: update from the EMCDDA expert network
This report presents an overview of infectious diseases among people who inject drugs in Europe, both in the community and in prison settings, covering disease surveillance, outbreak investigations, and prevention and control, for the period up to the end of February 2019 (EMCDDA)
ACMD: avoid Friday prison release to prevent drug relapse and deaths
Prison services could reduce drug-related harms by avoiding releasing vulnerable prisoners on a Friday, the ACMD has today advised the Home Secretary
ACMD report: Custody-community transitions
Report from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) on how to reduce drug-related harms that occur when people move between custody and the community
The Drugs Information and Monitoring System (DIMS)
Factsheet on drug checking in the Netherlands (Trimbos)
National intelligence network on drug health harms briefing: May 2019
This briefing is based on a meeting of the national intelligence network (NIN) on the health harms associated with drug use (Public Health England)
Allowing Pharmacists to Directly Dispense Opioid Antidote Can Sharply Cut Opioid Overdose Deaths
Allowing pharmacists to dispense the opioid antidote naloxone without a physician’s prescription can sharply reduce the incidence of fatal opioid-related overdoses, according to a new RAND Corporation study
Psychotropic Substances – Technical Report
On an annual basis the Psychotropics Control Section of the INCB Secretariat publishes a technical report that provides an overview of the world wide licit manufacture, export, import, stocks and consumption of substances controlled under the Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971 (INCB)
Withdrawal Management Services in Canada: The National Treatment Indicators Report (PDF)
The report provides an overview of the use of WM services in Canada in 2015–2016, including episodes of care offered within specialized community-based services and in hospitals (CCSA)
Health, rights and drugs (PDF)
Harm reduction, decriminalization and zero discrimination for people who use drugs (UNAIDS)
Promises to improve health outcomes for people who inject drugs remain unfulfilled as 99% do not have adequate access to harm reduction services
New report by UNAIDS highlights the urgent need to implement a human rights and evidence-informed approach to reach people who inject drugs with essential health service
Take-home Naloxone in England
Local Authority Survey (Release)
Widening the availability of naloxone
Explains regulations that widen the availability of naloxone, a drug used as an antidote for heroin (or other opiate) overdoses (Public Health England)
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