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Catastrophic increases in opioid overdose deaths across Canada require a broad response -- tackling housing, food and income insecurity as well as the contaminated drug supply.
Maybe it's time the government listened to the advice offered by its Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.
Your guide to a public health crisis that's likely to get worse.
The parliamentary inquiry into establishing an injecting room in Victoria has failed to make any recommendations. This is despite finding drug use is at crisis levels in the area.
President Trump declared the opioid epidemic a national emergency. But we need to do a lot more to prevent this crisis from escalating even further.
South Africa is only one piece in a larger puzzle of the heroin trade along the continents east coast.
Synthetic opiates are a growing problem.
Drug deaths are rising faster than ever. How did we get here and what to do about it?
Portugal won the war on drugs by giving up. What lessons can South Africa learn from their approach?
As in other parts of the world, the war on drugs in Southeast Asian countries has huge social, moral and medical costs. Now, an approach that places harm reduction at its centre is gaining support.
Safer drug consumption rooms can cut overdose deaths and reduce public nuisance. Other countries use them – isn't it time the UK did too?
Opiates have emerged as a significant threat to public health in the UK.
The Senate passed a bill July 13 to address the opioid epidemic. Georgia recently passed a bill that would limit rather than expand the number of treatment centers. Could others follow suit?
As congressional leaders today discuss legislation to curb the opioid epidemic, we look at three articles that explain how it happened and one that suggests some solutions.
Methadone is used mainly to treat dependence on heroin, but also other prescription drugs. It is sometimes used to treat severe chronic pain.
A book about drug addiction and prostitution aimed at 'young adults' was a very daring thing 20 years ago.
Heroin was used medically in Australia for coughs and pain relief until 1953.
The UK may have signed the UN drugs convention – with its emphasis on prohibition – but that doesn't mean it can't legalise the drug.
We don't know enough about the people who use painkillers non-medically to make the judgement that there is a natural transition from legal to illicit drug use.
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Emeritus Consultant, St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst
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Associate Professor of Addiction., University of York
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Bentley University
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Associate Professor and Deputy Director, Monash Addiction Research Centre, Monash University
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Head of Alcohol and other Drug Research, Centre for Population Health; Burnet Principal for Alcohol, other drugs and harm reduction, Burnet Institute
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Lecturer in Crimimology and Social Policy, University of Birmingham
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Professor in Substance Use, Liverpool John Moores University
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PhD candidate, Centre of Criminology, University of Cape Town
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Professor in Criminal Justice and Faculty Director of Public Engagement, University of Kent
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Associate Professor of History, University of Johannesburg
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Adjunct Research Fellow, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor and Director of the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW
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Emeritus Professor, University of Melbourne
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Professor and Director, National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University
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Professor, National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University
