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• US : Outrage at Biden administration caving to ’crack pipes’ pressure

  14 février
  By Alexander Lekhtman / Filter In one of the most exasperating controversies of Biden’s presidency, elected Republicans and conservative talking heads whipped up a social media firestorm this week, accusing the White House of wanting to distribute the pipes nationwide. This all stemmed from a (...)

• ‘It’s saved many lives’ : first US overdose prevention centers give safe spaces to people in crisis

  10 février
  By Gloria Oladipo / The Guardian Until recently, Ron M would take illicit drugs in what space he could find: public restrooms, subway alleyways or just in the street. He often used alone; the possibility of a fatal overdose was high. That’s why the East Harlem overdose prevention center has (...)

• Drug decriminalisation is working in Oregon. Other states should follow.

  10 février
  By Kassandra Frederique, Truthout As COVID-19 continues to rage, another health crisis persists — one that is decades long. In the first year of the pandemic, the United States hit the devastating milestone of 100,000 overdose deaths, a nearly 28.5 percent surge from the record numbers we saw (...)

• Colombia can’t resume coca aerial spraying for now, court rules

  9 février
  By Steven Grattan / Aljazeera Rights groups and politicians in Colombia have welcomed a decision by the country’s Constitutional Court, which ruled this week that the government failed to consult local communities over its plan to restart aerial fumigation of coca crops. In a decision on (...)

• What is naloxone, and how does it reverse opioid overdoses ?

  8 février
  By The Economist More than 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses between July 2020 and June 2021, according to provisional figures released by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention on January 12th. That is the highest number on record. Some 75% of these deaths were caused by (...)

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