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Seasons House and Native Friendship Centre add lifesaving resources

From the front seat of her 2001 Chevrolet Venture, McDougall says she’s seen first-hand the positive impacts that prescribing safer alternatives to illicit substances can have — in her personal life and for those around her.

Drug user and community healer wants drug policies revamped

Objective To estimate the effects of providing access to an alcohol intervention based on a smartphone. Design Randomised controlled trial.. Setting Four higher education institutions in Switzerland. Participants 1770 students (≥18 years) who screened positive for unhealthy alcohol use (ie, a score on the alcohol use disorders identification test-consumption (AUDIT-C) of ≥4 for men and ≥3 for women) were randomly assigned by 1:1 allocation ratio in blocks of 10. Intervention Providing acce...

Monrovia – On September 27, 2022, The Liberia Youth Task Team, a subsidiary of the Africa Youth Partnership to advocate an equitable recovery from the global COVID-19 pandemic, launched an online petition calling on the 54th National Legislature to p

Testing and treating patients for hepatitis c when they receive methadone treatment could be the key to meeting the global target of eliminating the disease by 2030, research from Public Health Wales and the University of Dundee has revealed The study found that nurse-delivered hepatitis C testing at community pharmacies made treatment more accessible and […]

Nurse-led hepatitis C testing at community pharmacies has made treatment more accessible and cure more likely for people who use drugs, a study has found.

Community testing and treatment key to global hep c elimination efforts

Drugs users, advocacy groups demanding immediate safe supply, decriminalization

Drugs users, advocacy groups demanding immediate safe supply, decriminalization