Kanada. Can drug users’ lives be saved by giving them uncontaminated heroin and cocaine? A Vancouver “compassion club” is buying illicit drugs and testing for impurities before distributing them to users at risk of overdose. (The Hamilton Spectator…

Harm Reduction International (2022) Global State of Harm Reduction 2022. London: Harm Reduction International. https://hri.global/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/HRI_GSHR-2022_Full-Report_Final.pdf

The Global State of Harm Reduction 2022 The Global State of Harm Reduction is the only report that provides an independent analysis of harm reduction in the world. Now in its the eighth edition, the Global State of Harm Reduction 202…

Harm Reduction Services Are Slowly Spreading Around the World Around the world, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, environmental crisis and warfare, harm reduction services are slowly spreading. Global State of Harm Reduction 2022, a report released by…

Moving towards a continuum of safer supply options for people who use drugs: A qualitative study exploring national perspectives on safer supply among professional stakeholders in Canada.  Foreman-Mackey A, Pauly B, Ivsins A, Urbanoski K, Mans…

USA. The Vending Machine Saving Lives in Ohio Since early last year, a vending machine in the US state of Ohio has provided crucial harm reduction supplies to a local community. The machine, operated in Hamilton County by the non-profit Carac…