Kanada. Agency looking to open overdose prevention site in Saint John amid 'poisoned' drug supply ‘We just want to keep people alive,’ Avenue B executive director Julie Dingwell says. (CBC, Kanada, 20.07.2022) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/n…

Implementation and sustainability of safe consumption sites: a qualitative systematic review and thematic synthesis.  Yoon GH, Levengood TW, Davoust MJ, Ogden SN, Kral AH, Cahill SR, Bazzi AR.  Harm Reduct J. 2022 Jul 5;19(1):73. doi: 10…

USA/Kalifornien. Senator Wiener’s Safe Consumption Sites Legislation Passes Assembly Sacramento - Senate Bill 57, authored by Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), passed the Assembly by a vote of 42-28. It will now return to the Senate for a con…

USA. A Look Inside America's First Overdose Prevention Centre (Video) Look around the Overdose Prevention Centre (OPC) that opened in New York at the end of 2021. This is the first of its kind in the whole of the USA. The OPC opened with permission…

Belgien. Drugs: Brussels opens a supervised consumption room Brussels, Belgium, May 2022 – As part of an approach to drugs based on harm reduction, and resulting from years of preparatory work by the City of Brussels with the support of the Brussel…

EMCDDA webinar: Drug consumption rooms in Europe (02.06.2022) - Video Objective: The main objective of this webinar is to provide an overview of the different types of drug consumptions rooms (DCRs) in Europe. It will describe the challenges and cu…