Where Harm Reduction Stands Around the World in 2024
O n October 29, Harm Reduction International released its latest biannual report on the status of harm reduction services around the world. The Global State of Harm Reduction 2024 honed in on four themes: hepatitis; Indigenous communities; incarcerated communities; and youth.. The report, last published in 2022, states that 108 countries currently express support for harm reduction practices ...
US Appeals Court Blocks Securus, Pay Tel Bids to Stall Prison Call …
Nov 21, 2024 · T he landmark Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations poised to bring down costs of phone and video calls for incarcerated people will move forward as planned, despite an onslaught of lawsuits and delay tactics from the corrections industry. The first of the new FCC caps will be enforced January 1, 2025. On November 18, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ...
How Tablets Changed Georgia Prisons, More Than GDC Intended
Nov 19, 2024 · I n 2015, when I was about three years into a 14-year prison sentence, the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) started rolling out the first JPay tablets. The JP5s look more or less like clunky versions of what people in the free world probably picture when they think of tablets, but any resemblance is superficial.
In Final Meeting, GA Prisons Senate Committee Votes for the …
Dec 16, 2024 · B rought into existence to tell us whether Georgia’s notoriously unsafe prison system is unsafe, a state Senate study committee has concluded that, for the most part, the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) is doing the best it can.. On December 13, the Georgia Senate Supporting Safety and Welfare of All Individuals in Department of Corrections Facilities Study Committee held its fifth ...
Study: Despite Fears, Legal Marijuana Hasn’t Normalized Impaired …
Dec 24, 2024 · C ontrary to concerns among some critics that legalizing marijuana would normalize cannabis-impaired driving, a new study found “no support that marijuana legalization increased tolerant behaviors and attitudes toward driving after marijuana use.”. The report was authored by researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Ohio State University and published in November in Biometrical ...
Baltimore’s $5.2 billion opioid lawsuit now in the hands of one judge
Dec 17, 2024 · A Baltimore j udge will soon decide the fate of a landmark opioid lawsuit. The beleaguered city hopes to obtain billions of dollars to redress an overdose crisis that has killed thousands of residents in the last decade.
One Drug Dominates Our Prison's Supply. We Don't Know What It …
Apr 27, 2022 · D uring the pandemic, the Michigan Department of Corrections suspended all Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, “substance abuse” classes and support groups, many of which have still not resumed. O ur yard access was limited, our phone time reduced. Our visits with loved ones turned into partitioned visits with masks on, each prisoner’s 45 visitation hours each month cut down to six.
Filter - Harm reduction journalism from a dedicated nonprofit
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Many People Left to Make Their Own Stimulant Pipes and Face
Sep 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 …
Why I Report on Tobacco Harm Reduction - filtermag.org
Dec 17, 2024 · T obacco harm reduction, which I’ve been covering as a journalist for a couple of years now, has often felt a strange space to work in. Polarizing, compassionate, full of justified hope, yet often dispiriting. Beset with hostility and falsehoods, yet fascinating.People who smoked cigarettes and then found tobacco harm reduction (THR) often talk about their “journey.”