EMCDDA and ECDC join forces to address the challenge of hepatitis
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Despite advances in our knowledge of effective services for people who use drugs over the last decades globally, coverage remains poor in most countries, while quality is often unknown. This paper aims...
View ArticleHousing First interventions for comorbid substance use disorders
According to a study (Urbanoski et al 2017, 1 RCT, n= 2154), substance use did not modify the effect of Housing First programms for homeless people with mental illness (OR=-1.17, 95% CI -0.77 to 1.76).
View ArticleNeedle and syringe programmes in prison to reduce injecting risk behaviours
Needle and syringe programmes were analysed in a systematic review (ECDC/EMCDDA, 2018) and showed no significant effect in:reducing injecting risk behaviours in prison.
View ArticleHepHIV2019 Bucharest Conference: Challenges of Timely and Integrated Testing...
The HepHIV2019 conference is taking place 28-30 January 2019 in Bucharest, Romania under the Romanian EU presidency (January-July 2019). The Bucharest conference is the 6th conference focusing on...
View ArticleEuropean Harm Reduction Conference (and final event of Joint Action HA REACT)
The European Harm Reduction Conference is aimed at professionals that work in the areas of harm reduction, treatment, prevention, medicine, research, law enforcement, and politics and finally but...
View ArticleHealth and social responses data - Statistical bulletin 2018
Health and social responses data reported here comprises information on the availability of different types of needle and syringe programmes (NSPs) in the country, including prison-, pharmacy- and non...
View Article26th Harm Reduction International Conference (HR19)
HR19 will be 2019’s largest international harm reduction event, bringing together over 1,000 people from around the world working at the heart of harm reduction and drug policy. Over four days of...
View Article8th International Conference on Hepatitis Care in Substance Users
The International Network on Hepatitis in Substance Users (INHSU) is an international, not-for-profit, member-based organisation dedicated to scientific knowledge exchange, education, and advocacy...
View Article2019 Solidify conference
Project Solidify – Supervised Drug Consumption Facilities to Instill Harm Reduction and Social Cohesion at Local Levels, is a project funded by the European Commission.The general objective of this...
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