Heroin

Heroin, also known as diacetylmorphine and diamorphine among other names, is an opioid used as a recreational drug for its euphoric effects. Medical grade diamorphine is used as a pure hydrochloride salt which is distinguished from black tar heroin, a variable admixture of morphine derivatives—predominantly 6-MAM (6-monoacetylmorphine), which is the result of crude acetylation during clandestine production of street heroin. Diamorphine is used medically in several countries to relieve pain, such as during childbirth or a heart attack, as well as in opioid replacement therapy. It is typically injected, usually into a vein, but it can also be smoked, snorted, …

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Cato Institute · 7 November 2024

countries. In 2020, Oregon decriminalized possession of small amounts of hard drugs such as fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine. Earlier this year, however, Oregon recriminalized drugs in response


Amnesty International · 31 October 2024 English

Seven organizations, including Amnesty International, are greatly alarmed at the deteriorating human rights situation in Singapore. In October the authorities carried out two more executions for drug related offences, in …

2019 of possession of 26.5 grams of diamorphine (heroin) for the purpose of trafficking.1 The second execution convicted of possessing 52.75 grams of diamorphine (heroin) for the purpose of trafficking. Four of the five


Brookings Institution · 30 October 2024 English

In the final episode of The Killing Drugs, host Vanda Felbab-Brown speaks with Dr. Lisa Durette and Dr. Alexis Kennedy of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, about the impact …

to 2%—very, very low. But of those who initiate heroin use within a period of high school, over 30% go substance use. We know that those who start with heroin or other opioids have a strong likelihood, 1 in initiation, it’s a very significant number for heroin. And of course, what is so challenging about the at a younger age. And starting at age 12 with heroin, it’s probably something to do with maybe family


GI-TOC: Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime · 29 October 2024 English

As a result, the Central Bank of companies’ link to Israel posed a national security Iran and dozens of commercial banks linked to the threat, the IRGC stormed the airport, …

....................................... 27 The heroin highway: Iran’s criminal proxies along smuggling charged with trying to traffic large quantities of heroin and methamphetamine into the US while also agreeing induce their cooperation in external operations. Heroin kingpin Naji Sharifi Zindashti is one of Iran’s MOIS, others the result of conflict with rival heroin traffickers. Zindashti has also been accused of Hossein Karimi-Rigabadi, a Bucharest-based Iranian heroin trafficker who once served a prison term in the


HRI: Harm Reduction International · 28 October 2024

As the language of harm reduction becomes more popularised in the USA and across the globe, the These innovations are important examples of how Global State of Harm Reduction 2024 …

most people who inject drugs in South Africa use heroin and could use access to naloxone. This is a common following record numbers of people dying from heroin overdoses in Sydney and New South Wales.37 McLachlan to ensure that while people who disclose use of heroin on continuity of care if reincarcerated.72 admission medications available for therapy. B=buprenorphine, H=heroin, M=methadone, N=Naloxone c At least one naloxone medications available for therapy. B=buprenorphine, H=heroin, M=methadone, N=Naloxone c At least one naloxone


HRI: Harm Reduction International · 24 October 2024

Number of countries with explicit supportive reference to harm reduction in national policy documents in Global State of Harm Reduction reports, 2008-2024 200 180 160 140 120 105 108100 91 …

most people who inject drugs in South Africa use heroin and could use access to naloxone. This is a common


HRI: Harm Reduction International · 24 October 2024 English

Thomas Kerr, PhD, is Head of the Division of Social Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. [...] However, it was with the consumption of …

medications available for therapy. B=buprenorphine, H=heroin, M=methadone, N=Naloxone. c At least one naloxone ‘Global State of Harm Reduction 2024 survey fentanyl, heroin, and prescription opioid epidemics: a modelling


HRI: Harm Reduction International · 24 October 2024 English

THE GLOBAL STATE OF HARM REDUCTION 2024 REGIONAL OVERVIEW EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA 3 TABLE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF HIV AND VIRAL HEPATITIS, AND HARM REDUCTION RESPONSES IN EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA …

medications available for therapy. B=buprenorphine, H=heroin, M=methadone, N=Naloxone c At least one naloxone ‘Mauritius and Seychelles the world’s largest heroin users’ online article, accessed 20 July 2024. Port-Louis


HRI: Harm Reduction International · 24 October 2024 English

REGIONAL CHAPTERS THE GLOBAL STATE OF HARM REDUCTION 2024 REREGGIONIALO OVERNVIEWAL ASIA 2 OVERVIEW: ASIA THE GLOBAL STATE OF HARM REDUCTION 2024 AUTHOR OF ASIA REGIONAL OVERVIEW: Gideon Lasco Gideon …

medications available for therapy. B=buprenorphine, H=heroin, M=methadone, N=Naloxone c At least one naloxone


HRI: Harm Reduction International · 24 October 2024 English

THE GLOBAL STATE OF HARM REDUCTION 2024 REGIONAL OVERVIEW WEST AND CENTRAL AFRICA 7 There is a lack of naloxone peer distribution The region’s lack of adequate harm reduction interventions …

medications available for therapy. B=buprenorphine, H=heroin, M=methadone, N=Naloxone, S=Suboxone c At least sourced cannabis to substances such as cocaine, heroin and 19 Peer networks in Sierra Leone and Senegal


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