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Sharing the Love
[…] and forth from a party to give people the information.’ The need for this intervention was acute, particularly with such high risks from a tiny amount of fentanyl. ‘I feel I have to work outside of an institutional context,’ said Mohawk. ‘There are a lot of people like me, low income, people of colour, […]
Trump declares opioid crisis ‘a public health emergency’
[…] misuse of prescription opioids and 950,000 reported heroin use, the administration says, with the rising death rate in part the result of ‘the proliferation of illegally made fentanyl’. An interim report from the President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis urged him to declare a national emergency earlier this year (DDN, […]
Worldwide cocaine manufacture hits record high
[…] living with both. Overdose deaths in North America and Canada, meanwhile, ‘continue to break records’ and are driven primarily by ‘an epidemic of the non-medical use of fentanyl’. The treatment gap remains large for women across the world, the report adds. ‘Women remain in the minority of drug users globally yet tend to increases […]
Highest number of drug deaths in quarter of a century
[…] just four in 2012 to more than 100. The National Crime Agency (NCA) has also announced that the number of UK deaths related to the powerful opioid fentanyl or its analogues has reached almost 60 in the last eight months alone. The highest rate of drug misuse deaths in 2016 was among people aged […]
British Columbia launches ‘healthcare over handcuffs’ decriminalisation experiment
[…] or have their drugs seized, with police instead offering information on treatment and other support ‘with referrals when requested’. The exemption will cover opioids including heroin and fentanyl, powder and crack cocaine, MDMA and methamphetamine. It will still be illegal to possess the drugs in schools, childcare facilities or airports, however, and the province […]
Height of ecstasy
[…] practice it can be hard to crush dense tablets in festival settings and if the drug in question is highly potent (such as a SCRA or a fentanyl) even dabbing could be a risk. Starting with low tablet doses – quarter to half a tablet – will reduce risk, although a quarter of a […]
US drug deaths up by 15 per cent
[…] cent jump between 2019 and 2020. Almost 81,000 of 2021’s deaths involved opioids, compared to just over 70,000 in 2020. There were more than 71,000 deaths involving fentanyl, as well as almost 33,000 involving methamphetamine and just over 24,500 involving cocaine – all up on the previous year – with overdose deaths increasing in every […]
Overdose deaths up across Europe
[…] synthetic opioids, despite them ‘representing a small share of the market’. Twenty-five new synthetic opioids have been detected in Europe since 2009, it says, 18 of them fentanyls (DDN, June, page 8). While previous years’ European drug reports have highlighted the exponential increases in NPS being detected for the first time via the EU […]
Biden administration launches harm reduction-based drug strategy in face of record deaths
[…] use and health. President Joe Biden: a whole-government approach to the ‘overdose epidemic’ The strategy calls for more access to harm reduction interventions like naloxone, NSP and fentanyl test strips, and directs federal agencies to integrate them into care systems. Naloxone, however, will remain prescription only and will not be available over the counter. […]
Words into deeds
[…] we should do it in Scotland.’ We should also be establishing pilot sites for drug testing, he said, as there was a real threat that the American fentanyl epidemic could hit the UK, as well as evaluating current initiatives such as Project ADDER and Scotland’s ‘innovative decriminalisation approach’ to see which provided the best […]
DDN June 2017
[…] workers do their best to engage with and protect a growing population of rough sleepers despite diminishing resources. Turn to page 8 for a comprehensive briefing on fentanyl – a drug with many highly dangerous forms that requires a robust and proactive harm reduction and education strategy, rather than a knee-jerk ‘ban everything’ reaction. […]
Seventy organisations call for overdose prevention site pilots
[…] median follow-up of just under nine years. While opioid-related deaths are also increasing in other countries, the ‘causes of this crisis’ differ, with far greater problems with fentanyls in the US and Canada. Although ‘the long-term trend of ageing and increasing frailty in this population’ is one explanation for the UK’s increasing death rates, […]
A different pain
[…] pain, joint pain, muscle pain and period pain. The painkillers that were the most commonly used by people in the study were strong opiates such as morphine, fentanyl, and tramadol; weaker opiates such as dihydrocodeine and codeine-based compounds such as co-codamol; and non-opiates, mainly non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as naproxen, diclofenac, and ibuprofen. One […]
Another record high for England and Wales drug deaths
[…] Poisonings involving cocaine have risen by more than 26 per cent for women and 7 per cent for men since last year, while poisonings involving NPS and fentanyl have remained stable. Drug-related poisoning rates have been on a ‘steep upward trend’ since 2012, says ONS, in line with trajectories in Scotland and Northern Europe. […]
Changing with the times
[…] of £7,500 to construct the space and order supplies and furniture. The crowdfunder remains open to support us in purchasing additional supplies such as nitazene, xylazine and fentanyl test strips. Harm reduction is much more than drug checking tools and sterile syringes. It’s about promoting a rights-based approach and ‘meeting people where they’re at,’ […]
In the Picture
[…] to hear about changes in the drugs market. Niamh Eastwood, executive director of Release ‘We’ve already had a public health crisis with drug-related deaths,’ she said. ‘If fentanyl arrives it will be a catastrophe.’ The network had been identifying regional issues, such as fluctuations in heroin purity in the north and north east of […]
Government bans 14 nitazenes
[…] crisis in the UK (Partner Updates, September 2023): Release, alongside EuroNPUD and other drug treatment service colleagues in the UK, have produced harm reduction advice on nitazenes. Search the DDN archive for more on vaping, nitazenes, fentanyl and synthetic opioids. The government has also introduced its tobacco and vapes bill crime and policing minister Chris Philp
What a long strange trip it’s been
[…] recovery outcomes and a ‘catalyst for disaster’. The Welsh Government announces its own plans for minimum pricing, and the National Crime Agency (NCA) issues a warning about fentanyl use in the UK as America’s opioid crisis sees overdose levels quadruple since the turn of the century. 2018 The NHS sets out its plan for […]
Codeine cough syrup to be prescription-only
[…] and analgesic in veterinary medicine, xylazine is ‘increasingly being used illicitly by humans internationally and in the UK’, the report states. The drug is often combined with fentanyl in the US as ‘tranq’ or ‘tranq dope’, with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issuing an alert related to the increased prevalence of overdose deaths […]