Irland. First ever state-funded heroin injection centre will cater for 60 addicts a day  The planned new State-funded injecting centre for chronic heroin and cocaine addicts in Dublin’s inner city is to cater for around 60 addicts each d…

USA. Safer Consumption Spaces: Three Underground Models “For years, the idea of a safe consumption space captivated the imagination of drug users everywhere,” says Isaac Jackson, president of the San Francisco chapter of the Urban Survi…

USA. Feds bid to stop Philly safe injection site may be test for rest of U.S.  The options U.S. Attorney William McSwain described offered the most concrete outline yet of the federal government’s potential response should the proposal&r…

Berlin. UN-Vertreter ruft zu mehr Anstrengungen gegen Aids auf Berlin – Der Vize-Chef des HIV/Aids-Programms der Vereinten Nationen, Tim Martineau, hat Deutschland zu mehr Anstrengungen im Kampf gegen Aids aufgefordert. Deutschland könne…

USA. San Francisco mayor weighs drug injection site despite veto SAN FRANCISCO—A veto by California Gov. Jerry Brown blocking a supervised drug injection site in San Francisco has left the mayor deciding whether to go it alone on the issue…

USA. ‘An argument that made no sense at all’: Why Ed Rendell supported needle exchange during the AIDS epidemic and safe injection sites today On Tuesday, former Gov. Ed Rendell announced that he is incorporating a nonprofit…