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Methadone treatment (podcast)

Should the Government cut back on its £300m a year use of methadone to treat drug addicts? Linda Pressly reports on calls to get more users clean of drugs.

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All Those Wasted Years

A bilingual documentary about drug addiction that ravages Dublin and its surrounds.

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Rebel Angel story of a individual addicted to Heroin in Dublin

Heroin is a highly addictive drug, and its abuse has repercussions that extend far beyond the individual user. The medical and social consequences of drug abuse have a devastating impact on society.This is the story of one Dublin heroin addict.

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Increasing HIV drug treatment will save millions: stud

Treating more HIV patients will prevent the spread of the virus and save almost $1 billion in health-care costs in British Columbia over 30 years, a new study suggests.

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Hooked 35: Death penalty for drug use

Nigel from injectigadvice.com interviews Rick Lines Deputy Director and Patrick from IHRA about thier report into countries that have the death penalty for drug offences

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Cambridege Police defend DIY Drug Kits

Chief Constable Julie Spence has defended the use of ‘DIY drug kits’ for addicts in Cambridge.The scheme began at Parkside police station on June 7 and was due to run for a week.

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Stories from the Supervised Injection Site

Insite is North America’s first legal supervised injection site designed to offer injection drug users a safe, clean
place to inject drugs. Professional nursing staff and counsellors provide a first point of contact for some of the
most marginalized and vulnerable people in Vancouver. Download

Hooked 28: Interview with Niamh Eastwood

Hooked podcast  28 has interviewed Niamh Eastwood from Release. Release are a charity working to help people with legal issues arising from their substance use. And are responsible for the wonderful “Nice people use drugs” campaign that helps to raise awareness of the stigma faced by drug users (and the strange lack of this stigma faced by people in positions of political power who have previously used drugs). Niamh is a non-practising barrister; she initially joined Release in 2002 as a legal advisor, was appointed Head of Legal Services in 2007 and Deputy Director in 2009. She is particularly interested in the issue of civil liberties and is concerned that the current trend of limiting rights impacts disproportionately on drug users.

Niamh is interested in developing Release’s legal capacity with a view to becoming more involved in public law as way of challenging unacceptable practices in the arenas of health, criminal justice and education.

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Hooked 26: Social media and drugs work

In Hooked this week we’re talking about social media and drugs work. We discuss the need to use these new services to engage with drug users and how they can be helpful for networking and research. We also talk about how a lot of drug services nanny their staff by blocking social media sites, which is very short sighted.

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