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Much has been said about Naltrexone, leading in many cases to confusion. It is the aim of this report to shed some light on this topic and to introduce the layperson to this drug and its uses.

In a study, published in The European Journal of Public Health with first author, Ellen J. Amundsen, it is shown that, when considered together, the different measures to prevent HIV-transmission in Scandinavia, a high level of HIV-testing and counselling render better results than legal and ready access to clean syringes and needles. This is the only study, so far, where thes...

Ms. Grainne Kenny, the president of Europe Against Drugs, EURAD, expressed concern for the Norwegian situation, at the Oslo-meeting recently. In Norway a majority in the Parliament last summer voted to instruct the government to open up for trials with injecting rooms.

The question that keeps coming to one's mind is rather simple: is there not a contrast, a real cultural collision between efforts by the international community to negotiate and agree on a Convention on Tobacco, because of the lethal consequences of its abuse, and the frequently heard calls to liberalise the production, trafficking and abuse of cannabis - a substance known to b...

The 21st of June 2002, a majority in the Norwegian Parliament decided to request the Government to prepare and implement a trial with injection rooms in Norway, preferably in Oslo. In co-operation with the Municipality of Oslo the preparations for such a trial in one room in Oslo has gone on.

- The hoax of using a smoked weed as medicine is the Trojan Horse of the new millennium. This was what dr. Andrea G. Barthwell said at the New England Governors' Summit on Drug Use October 8, 2003

One injection room, established in Sydney, Australia in May 2001 has been evaluated after 18 months. The researchers did not succeed in showing any preventative effects on overdose mortality.

On the 7th of May 2002 the Norwegian government presented its proposal for revision of this year's national budget. In this document they also proposed a no to implementing injection rooms

The annual report 2002 is now available from the EMCDDA home site.

The INCB (International Narcotics Control Board) has released its report for 2001. The report reproaches Governments in Europe who have adopted a liberal policy vs.cannabis, and says that the establishing of injecting rooms is in breach of international drug conventions, and not in line with obligations which governments have committed themselves to, to reduce the demand for i...