1. A committee in Norway has called for heroin prescription trials and expanded harm reduction measures, such as expanding safe injection sites: http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/639/norway_stoltenberg_committee_prescription_heroin_harm_reduction
2. Research carried out by the universities of Bristol, Cambridge and Edinburgh found that opiate substitution treatment reduced the frequency of drug use: http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/all-news/methadone-080710
3. The Anex 2010 Australian Drugs Conference will bring together professionals working in the health and community services fields, medical practitioners, policy makers from all levels of government and law enforcement personnel: http://www.australiandrugsconference.org.au/
4. The Russian Government’s refusal to sanction new treatments for opiate addiction has left doctors few means with which to turn back the rising tide of injected drug use: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2810%2961041-0/fulltext
5. President Obama did the right thing in December when he repealed the 21-year-old ban on federal financing for programs that give drug users access to clean needles, however……: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/03/opinion/03sat3.html?_r=3&partner=rss&emc=rss
6. ‘Successes’ in the war on drugs expose the policy’s limits: http://www.economist.com/node/16439034
7. Two recently-released reports show that global drug policy is in the dark ages, and that the UN shares the blame for it: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-borden/un-drug-policy-in-the-dar_b_631777.html
8. Methadone Man and Buprenorphine Babe work together to help injection drug users in distress and promote drug replacement therapy on a global scale: http://www.wheresthemethadone.org/index.html
9. Controversial and expensive it might be, but in the first British randomised trial, a continental-style heroin prescribing programme featuring on-site supervised consumption suppressed illegal heroin use much more effectively than oral methadone: http://findings.org.uk/count/downloads/download.php?file=Strang_J_21.txt
10. Advocates Say ‘Good Samaritan’ Laws Could Save Overdose Victims: http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/06/advocates-say-good-samaritan-laws-could-save-overdose-victims.print.html
11. Strategy to halt and reverse the HIV epidemic among people who inject drugs in Asia and the Pacific: http://www.unodc.org/eastasiaandpacific/en/2010/07/hiv-strategy/story.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
12. The Connections Project/Conference Consortium event, Drugs, alcohol and criminal justice, saw people from across Europe and beyond gather in London to debate the ethics, effectiveness and economics of treatment: http://www.drinkanddrugsnews.com/magazine/99ee7c5d2be943aa898d0773453f44a2.pdf
13. Victoria (Canada) court offers new hope for addicts: http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Victoria%2Bcourt%2Boffers%2Bhope%2Baddicts/3234417/story.html
14. A study led by Edinburgh University researchers said methadone treatment reduced the frequency of drug use: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/scotland/edinburgh_east_and_fife/10558740.stm
15. IDRS (Australia) Supplement by NCHECR: Drug injection trends among participants in the Australian Needle and Syringe: http://ndarc.med.unsw.edu.au/NDARCWeb.nsf/resources/IDRS+Bulletin+April09.pdf/$file/IDRS+bulletin+July10+%28supplement%29.pdf
16. National Opioid Pharmacotherapy Statistics Annual Data Collection 2010 (Australia): http://www.aihw.gov.au/publications/wp/64/11526.pdf
17. One of Australia’s leading experts on HIV-AIDS is warning the world is facing a “rolling holocaust” because millions of sufferers are denied life-saving treatment: http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2010/s2944611.htm
18. Treatment for drug addiction works better and costs less than imprisonment alone. So why are states abandoning it (USA)?: http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/29/the-case-for-treating-drug-addicts-in-prison.html
