Malaysia. Malaysia's Government looks to decriminalise drug use in bid to stem disadvantage The non-descript white van parked at the mosque entrance went mostly unnoticed. In conservative Malaysia, very few of the Muslim faithful on their way to a…

USA. Opioid crackdown forces pain patients to taper off drugs they say they need (...) When researchers surveyed 194 primary care clinics in Michigan in 2018, they found that 79 of them would not accept new patients taking opioids, according to a s…

Russland. Drogenabhängige in Russland: Leben mit der Sucht  Russland zählt zu den größten Heroinmärkten der Welt, die Zahl der Abhängigen steigt. Der Fotograf Aleksandr Martynov hat Süchtige mit der Kamera begleitet. (Spiegel, 05.09.2019) htt…

Barriers and facilitators to office-based opioid agonist therapy prescribing and effective interventions to increase provider prescribing: protocol for a systematic review. Nixon LL, Marlinga JC, Hayden KA, Mrklas KJ. Syst Rev. 2019 Jul 25;8(1):18…

Physicians' satisfaction with providing buprenorphine treatment. Knudsen HK, Brown R, Jacobson N, Horst J, Kim JS, Collier E, Starr S, Madden LM, Haram E, Toy A, Molfenter T. Addict Sci Clin Pract. 2019 Aug 26;14(1):34. doi: 10.1186/s13722-019-016…

A call to maximize impact of the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act through standard inclusion of opioid use disorder treatment curricula in medical schools. Shapiro A, Villarroel LR, George P. Adv Med Educ Pract. 2019 Aug 2;10:581-583. doi…