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The Five Stages of Grief over Obama's Drug Policies

Stanton Peele | Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gil Kerlikowske, Needle Exchange Program, Medical Marijuana, Stanton Peele, Gil Kerlikowske Drug Czar, Ethan Nadelmann, Political News, Harm Reduction, Obama Administration, Marijuana Legalization, Drug Policy, Politics News
Stanton Peele

Obama is not committed enough to drug policy reform to incur the symbolism taking any steps towards liberalization would send.

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Congress Set to End Needle Exchange Funding Ban

Jirair Ratevosian | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Congress, Human Rights, Hiv, Needle Exchange, Physicians for Human Rights, HIV Prevention, Harm Reduction, David Obey, Politics News
Jirair Ratevosian

Lifting the 20-year ban on federal funding of needle exchange provides greater options for states and local jurisdictions that require new and effective tools to prevent the spread of HIV.

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Michael Jackson and the Overdose Crisis in America

Jill Harris | Posted 07.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Michael Jackson, Harm Reduction, Naloxone, Drugs, War on Drugs, Overdose, Living News
Jill Harris

If Michael Jackson's death was caused by an opioid overdose, it might have been averted had people close to him had access to a simple and reliable antidote: naloxone, otherwise known as Narcan.

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Not So Fast: Don't Write Off Canada's Single-Payer Health System

Mitchell Beer | Posted 06.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Lee Iacocca, Health Wait Times, Health Care, Robert Creamer, Single-Payer, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Walter Reuther, Harm Reduction, Max Baucus, Safe Injection, Health Care in Canada, Insite, Living News
Mitchell Beer

When free-market alarmists who oppose U.S. health care reform storm Congress with their horror stories about Canada's public health insurance system, I don't know which system they're talking about.

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USA Fumbles UN Drug Policy in Vienna

Allan Clear | Posted 04.11.2009 | World

Read More: Needle Exchange, United Nations, Harm Reduction, Obama Administration, Drugs, Syringe Exchange, War on Drugs, Drug Policy, World News
Allan Clear

Will this be the year that member states will move towards a public health and human rights approach to drug policy? The signs have not been good.

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Obama's Choice: Sane U.N. Drug Policy or the Same Old Failed War-on-Drugs Routine?

Allan Clear | Posted 02.27.2009 | World

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Harm Reduction, Drugs, Syringe Exchange, Obama, War on Drugs, Drug Policy, United Nations, World News
Allan Clear

By making drug use as dangerous as possible, the US has facilitated the spread of HIV and hepatitis, and has created a prison system unlike anything since the Soviet gulags.

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Harm Reduction and Allan's Diplomatic Faux Pas, on the Final Day of the U.N. Drug Treatment Conference, Vienna

Allan Clear | Posted 01.22.2009 | World

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Drugs, Treatment, News, Politics, United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Drugs, United Nations, Addiction, Foreign Policy, Harm Reduction, Vienna, Drug Policy, World News
Allan Clear

At last, my final day in Vienna attending the United Nations' "Technical Seminar on Drug Addiction Prevention and Treatment: From Research to Practice" conference.

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Vienna U.N. Drug Treatment Meeting Day Two: The Clockwork Orange Brainwashing Day

Allan Clear | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Drugs, United Nations, Addiction, Harm Reduction, Treatment, Drugs, Foreign Policy, Vienna, Drug Policy, Politics News
Allan Clear

Cross posted from from the Stop the Drug War Chronicle Blog (12/18/08) Ah, the Clockwork Orange brainwashing day. (For my preamble, click here. For c...

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Why Should You or Anyone Care About This Week's U.N. Anti-Drug Meeting?

Allan Clear | Posted 01.18.2009 | World

Read More: United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Drugs, Addiction, Harm Reduction, Treatment, Drugs, Drug Policy, Vienna, United Nations, Foreign Policy, World News
Allan Clear

Are the collected nations going to sign on to yet another tour of duty with the War on Drugs? Or will this new Declaration finally shift the focus of international drug policy towards a human rights, public health-based approach?

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Why Harm Reduction Makes Sense: These Three Things I Know are True

Stanton Peele | Posted 01.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Youth, Underage Drinking, Harm Reduction, Drugs, Teen Alcohol Abuse, Binge Drinking, Drug Use, High School Students Survey, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug Czar, American Teen, Adhd, High School, Drug Abuse, Substances, Health, Living News
Stanton Peele

How many adult substance abusers abstain? By now, we are inured to the frequent visits to rehab by problem drinking and drug abusing entertainment figures.

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Rallying For Harm Reduction In Thailand

Jennifer Winstanley | Posted 07.25.2008 | Living

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Un, Thailand, Harm Reduction, The Giving Life, Humanitarianism, Living News
Jennifer Winstanley

A few months ago I went to a rally in support of harm reduction services outside a UNAIDS meeting in Chiang Mai. The rally was organized by the Thai A...

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