Many People Left to Make Their Own Stimulant Pipes and Face
WEBSep 27, 2023 · A cross the globe, people who use stimulants have devised creative, sometimes ingenious, smoking tools. Often used to heat up and inhale crack cocaine or methamphetamine, these homemade implements are regularly made of whatever’s available—particularly in jurisdictions where access to new pipes and stems, such as through safer smoking kit programs, is banned.
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WEBFilter speaks with harm reduction activists in the Philippines, who work in the face of President Duterte’s murderous drug war. Participants in a vaping group at Saint Ann’s Corner of Harm Reduction, a pioneering syringe services provider in New York, describe their experiences of switching from cigarettes.
No Drug Education: The Rise and Fall of DARE - Filter
WEBMay 1, 2024 · P raised by politicians, parents and presidents, police officers taught DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) to fifth and sixth-grade students in around 75 percent of United States school districts at the peak of its popularity in the 1980s and ‘90s. Funded by the US government, the program was exported to dozens of other countries, too. . Altogether, DARE reached an estimated 50 million ...
Smoking in Prisons Has Changed. Why Are We Denied Lung …
WEBDec 20, 2023 · A talking point often circulated in harm reduction is that the moment someone is released from incarceration, their risk of dying from opioid-involved overdose goes up by an extremely large percentage. There’s a parallel phenomenon for tobacco-related deaths. Incarceration is associated with precipitously increased cancer risk, lung cancer in particular.
Fears for Drug Users and Many Others After Indonesia’s ... - Filter
WEBFeb 22, 2024 · Soon after his inauguration in 2015, President Jokowi declared a state of emergency on drugs, awarded an extra $100 million to Indonesia’s drug enforcement agency to conduct arrests and force people into “treatment,” and ordered that 14 people be put to death for drug convictions. Human rights …
Disposable Vape Ban Threatens New Zealand’s “World Leader” …
WEBAug 16, 2024 · D espite being lauded as a world leader in tobacco harm reduction and approaching “smoke-free” status, New Zealand is banning disposable vapes.. Earlier in August, the World Vapers’ Alliance warned that the ban, advanced in the name of reducing youth vaping, “ could undermine the progress made.”. The policy, which the government first announced in March and plans to have in place by ...
Australia and New Zealand: A Natural Experiment in Vaping Policy
WEBby Colin Mendelsohn June 24, 2024. A vast natural experiment has been unfolding Down Under. Resembling a large-scale controlled trial, it has much to teach us about the impacts of diametrically opposed regulatory approaches to nicotine vaping. The subjects of this experiment are the respective populations of Australia and New Zealand.
Disposable Vapes Eating Into Cigarette Sales, Industry Data Show
WEBAug 14, 2024 · According to data presented by Altria, 11.7 million people—a sizable majority of an estimated 18.6 million US adults who vape—are now using disposables. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized only four disposable vaping products. Countless others are nonetheless widely …
Study Links Cannabis Use to Decreased Odds of Cognitive Decline
WEBby Ben Adlin March 1, 2024. M arijuana use is associated with lower odds of subjective cognitive decline (SCD), according to a new study, with people who consume cannabis for recreational or medical purposes reporting less confusion and memory loss compared to non-users. The study—which showed that recreational cannabis use is ...
Could International Human Rights Mechanisms Take Down Vape …
WEBJul 29, 2024 · C ould international human rights mechanisms be successfully used to contest government-imposed bans and restrictions on nicotine vapes and other safer alternatives to smoking?. I’ve been researching how elements of two international treaties—each adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1966—might enable a legal challenge to damaging prohibitions, which deny millions of ...