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Children and drug law reform
10 November 2011
In June 2011 the Global Commission on Drug Policy, of which I am proud to be the chair, released its report calling for fundamental reforms to drug policies. Together with my colleagues – former and s...
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Fernando Henrique Cardoso
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Employment amongst people who use drugs: A new arena for research and intervention?
13 October 2011
Employment is widely recognised as a robust determinant of health. For this and other political, social and economic reasons, governments throughout the world invest heavily in efforts to promote empl...
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Lindsey Richardson,
Susan G. Sherman,
Thomas Kerr
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3-5
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If supply-oriented drug policy is broken, can harm reduction help fix it? Melding disciplines and methods to advance international drug-control policy
21 June 2011
Abstract: Critics of the international drug-control regime contend that supply-oriented policy interventions are not just ineffective, but, in focusing almost exclusively on supply reduction, they als...
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Victoria A. Greenfield,
Letizia Paoli
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6-15
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Henceforth harm reduction?
18 August 2011
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Dan Ciccarone
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16-17
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Measuring drug law enforcement—From process to outcomes
18 August 2011
looks at the utility of the concept of harm reduction when applied to drug law enforcement and supply reduction activities. Attention to this issue is very welcome, as it expands consideration of the...
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Mike Trace
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17-18
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Harm reduction is not enough for supply side policy: A human rights-based approach offers more
18 August 2011
At the International Harm Reduction Association's 21st international conference in Liverpool in 2010 I organised (with the Transnational Institute and the Institute for Policy Studies) a major session...
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Damon Barrett
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18-19
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The term and the vision
18 August 2011
I am an unabashed fan of paper and the general idea of grounding law enforcement prioritization in a broader framework than use reduction. Fulsome praise makes for boring commentary, so I will challe...
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Jonathan P. Caulkins
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19-20
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Harm reduction for the supply-side: Its time has come
18 August 2011
In their article put to rigorous scrutiny the highly relevant question of whether the harm reduction concept could be usefully applied to supply-oriented policies. The question itself is not new. In ...
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Martin Jelsma
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20-21
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The policymaker's Hippocratic oath
18 August 2011
By calling for a “harm-reduction” approach to supply-side counternarcotics measures, make an important contribution to drug policy. In a sense, they call for a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis to ...
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Vanda Felbab-Brown
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21-22
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Drug prohibition: It's broke, now go and fix it
21 November 2011
consider the possibility that drug law enforcement may be ineffective, expensive and accompanied by serious unwanted adverse consequences. But why are they so tentative? Their tone is reminiscent of ...
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Alex Wodak
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22-23
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Mortality of those who attended drug services in Scotland 1996–2006: Record-linkage study
04 July 2011
Abstract: Background: We examine major causes of death amongst persons in contact with drug-treatment services across Scotland during April 1996–March 2006, hereafter Scottish Drug Misuse Database (SD...
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Elizabeth L.C. Merrall,
Sheila M. Bird,
Sharon J. Hutchinson
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24-32
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A high proportion of users of low-threshold facilities with needle exchange programmes in Switzerland are currently on methadone treatment: Implications for new approaches in harm reduction and care
27 June 2011
Abstract: Background: Increasingly, patients receiving methadone treatment are found in low threshold facilities (LTF), which provide needle exchange programmes in Switzerland. This paper identifies t...
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Jean-Pierre Gervasoni,
Hugues Balthasar,
Thérèse Huissoud,
André Jeannin,
Françoise Dubois-Arber
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33-36
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Initiation into prescription opioid misuse amongst young injection drug users
21 June 2011
Abstract: Background: Prescription opioids are the most frequently misused class of prescription drugs amongst young adults. Initiation into prescription opioid misuse is an important public health co...
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Stephen E. Lankenau,
Michelle Teti,
Karol Silva,
Jennifer Jackson Bloom,
Alex Harocopos,
Meghan Treese
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37-44
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Public sentiment towards alcohol and local government alcohol policies in New Zealand
11 July 2011
Abstract: Background: In many countries, including New Zealand, alcohol availability and promotion have increased markedly in the last three decades as a result of liberalised central and/or state gov...
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Brett Maclennan,
Kypros Kypri,
John Langley,
Robin Room
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45-53
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Reconciling incongruous qualitative and quantitative findings in mixed methods research: Exemplars from research with drug using populations
16 June 2011
Abstract: Mixed methods research is increasingly being promoted in the health sciences as a way to gain more comprehensive understandings of how social processes and individual behaviours shape human ...
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Karla D. Wagner,
Peter J. Davidson,
Robin A. Pollini,
Steffanie A. Strathdee,
Rachel Washburn,
Lawrence A. Palinkas
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54-61
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SimAmph: An agent-based simulation model for exploring the use of psychostimulants and related harm amongst young Australians
30 June 2011
Abstract: Background: Computer simulations provide a useful tool for bringing together diverse sources of information in order to increase understanding of the complex aetiology of drug use and relate...
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Pascal Perez,
Anne Dray,
David Moore,
Paul Dietze,
Gabriele Bammer,
Rebecca Jenkinson,
Christine Siokou,
Rachael Green,
Susan L. Hudson,
Lisa Maher
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62-71
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Regime change: Re-visiting the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs
13 October 2011
Abstract: Background: March 2011 marked the 50th anniversary of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. This legal instrument, the bedrock of the current United Nations based global drug control regi...
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David Bewley-Taylor,
Martin Jelsma
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72-81
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Switzerland, HIV and the power of pragmatism: Lessons for drug policy development
18 August 2011
Abstract: Switzerland in the 1980s was an epicentre of HIV as open drug injection became part of the urban scene, especially in Zurich. Cracks appeared in Switzerland's long commitment to policing as ...
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Joanne Csete,
Peter J. Grob
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82-86
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An estimation of the prevalence of opioid dependence in New Zealand
22 June 2011
Abstract: Background: An accurate prevalence estimate for opioid dependence in New Zealand, and hence the extent of unmet treatment need, is lacking. Methods: Opioid users were recruited via snowball ...
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Simon J. Adamson,
Daryle E.A. Deering,
J. Doug Sellman,
Janie Sheridan,
Charles Henderson,
Rhonda Robertson,
Sheridan Pooley,
Samadhi D. Campbell,
Chris M.A. Frampton
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87-89
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