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Spotlight on… Drug consumption rooms

24.02.2022

Drug consumption rooms, sometimes known as supervised injecting facilities, are fixed or mobile spaces in which people who inject drugs are provided with sterile injection equipment and can use illicit drugs under the supervision of trained staff. In some countries, consumption rooms also provide a...

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Manual: increasing access to hepatitis C testing and care for people who inject drugs

28.07.2021

This manual provides a step-by-step guide for those involved in planning and managing infectious diseases and drug services, focusing on how to identify barriers to and opportunities for improving provision of HCV testing and access to treatment for people who use drugs. In particular, it focuses...

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Elimination barometer on viral hepatitis among people who inject drugs in Europe

28.07.2021

The elimination barometer for hepatitis B and C among people who inject drugs is designed to support countries affiliated to the EMCDDA in monitoring their progress towards the Sustainable Development Goal 3.3 and the elimination of viral hepatitis as a major public health threat by 2030. Under...

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Prison and drugs in Europe: current and future challenges

25.06.2021

This publication provides an overview of current knowledge and the latest developments in the field of drug use and prison in Europe. The report explores in depth the epidemiology of drug use and drug-related problems among the prison population, the available social and health service responses to...

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European Drug Report 2021: Trends and Developments

09.06.2021

The Trends and Developments report presents the EMCDDA’s latest analysis of the drug situation in Europe. Focusing on illicit drug use, related harms and drug supply, the report contains a comprehensive set of national data across these themes and key harm reduction interventions.

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An analysis of drugs in used syringes from sentinel European cities: results from the ESCAPE project, 2018 and 2019

17.02.2021

This report presents new findings from the ESCAPE (European Syringe Collection and Analysis Project Enterprise) network, based on the chemical analysis of the contents of used syringes across sentinel sites in Europe. Syringes were collected in 2018 and 2019 from the bins of street automatic...

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European Syringe Collection and Analysis Enterprise (ESCAPE) – generic protocol

17.02.2021

This protocol documents a new approach that has been developed to monitor substances injected by people who inject drugs through analytically confirmed data at the local level: the analysis of residual content of used syringes. Used syringes contain traces of drugs that can be analysed to inform...

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Drug-related infectious diseases in Europe: Update from the EMCDDA expert network, 2020

20.05.2020

This 2020 EMCDDA update on drug-related infectious diseases aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the current situation with regard to the epidemiological picture of drug-related infectious diseases in Europe up to January 2020, while highlighting some of the current innovative responses to...

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EMCDDA update on the implications of COVID-19 for people who use drugs and drug service providers

25.03.2020

COVID-19 is a major global health threat. People who use drugs face the same risks as those of the general population and therefore need to be aware of the appropriate advice to reduce their risk of infection. They can be exposed to additional risks, however, that require developing assessment and...

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Monitoring the elimination of viral hepatitis as a public health threat among people who inject drugs in Europe

27.09.2019

This technical report focuses on an elimination barometer for viral hepatitis to help countries assess progress towards eliminating hepatitis C and B among people who inject drugs (PWID). The barometer is being developed by the EMCDDA together with its expert network on drug-related infectious...

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Evidence database of the Best practice portal

15.09.2019

This database presents the latest evidence on drug-related interventions. The information is based on systematic searches is updated twice a year. Topics covered include harm reduction, social reintegration,  treatment, prevention as well as emerging topics.

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Drug-related infectious diseases in Europe: update from the EMCDDA expert network

28.06.2019

This report presents an overview of infectious diseases among people who inject drugs in Europe, both in the community and in prison settings, covering disease surveillance, outbreak investigations, and prevention and control, for the period up to the end of February 2019. The report describes the...

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European Drug Report 2019: Trends and Developments

06.06.2019

The Trends and Developments report presents a top-level overview of the drug phenomenon in Europe, covering drug supply, use and public health problems as well as drug policy and responses. Together with the online Statistical Bulletin and 30 Country Drug Reports, it makes up the 2019 European Drug...

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Drugs in syringes from six European cities: results from the ESCAPE project 2017

29.05.2019

This report presents the results of an innovative method for gathering information on the substances used by people who inject drugs. In this pilot study, chemical analysis of the contents of used syringes collected from exchange sites reveals the drugs and drug combinations injected in the six...

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Preventing overdose deaths in Europe (Perspectives on drugs)

03.10.2018

More than 9 000 lives were reported to be lost to drug overdoses in Europe (28 EU Member States, Turkey and Norway) in 2016, the latest reporting year, and this is an underestimate. Reducing drug-related deaths therefore remains a major challenge for public health policy. This analysis describes...

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Barriers to HCV Testing in Drug Treatment Services for People who inject drugs

19.09.2018

People who inject drugs (PWID) remain a key risk group for hepatitis C virus infection (HCV) with national prevalence estimates ranging from 13.8% (Malta) to 84.3% (Portugal) in Europe.  To reach the global and European elimination goals, HCV testing and treatment of PWID is required at larger...

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Drug consumption rooms: an overview of provision and evidence (Perspectives on drugs)

07.06.2018

Supervised drug consumption facilities, where illicit drugs can be used under the supervision of trained staff, have been operating in Europe for the last three decades. These facilities primarily aim to reduce the acute risks of disease transmission through unhygienic injecting, prevent drug-...

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Wound botulism among people who inject heroin in Norway

01.10.2013

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the EMCDDA released a joint risk assessment on wound botulism among people who inject heroin in Norway in October 2013. As of 28 October 2013, six cases of wound botulism had been reported in Norway among people who had injected...

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HIV outbreak among injecting drug users in Romania

01.11.2012

Summary: This is an updated report for the EMCDDA on the recent outbreak of HIV infections among drug injectors in Romania (October 2012).

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HIV outbreak among injecting drug users in Greece

01.11.2012

Summary: This is an updated report for the EMCDDA on the recent outbreak of HIV infections among drug injectors in Greece (October 2012).
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