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Using the case of the campaign to establish a Supervised drug Injecting Facility (SIF) for people who use illicit drugs in Dublin, Ireland, this paper makes three related contributions to contemporar....

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Using the case of the campaign to establish a Supervised drug Injecting Facility (SIF) for people who use illicit drugs in Dublin, Ireland, this paper makes three related contributions to contemporar....

There is increasing international interest in the use of police drug diversion schemes that offer people suspected of minor drug-related offences an educative or therapeutic intervention as an alterna...

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Ireland’s first Medically Supervised Injecting Facility (MSIF), launched in December 2024 at Merchants Quay Ireland’s Riverbank Centre, has sparked significant media interest. An early stage analysis ...

Background: Unlike evidence-based approaches, public drug policies are shaped more by political factors, with public opinion playing a key role. We hypothesized that using moral arguments in favor ...

Contemporary arguments for drug policy reform, in support of legalising or decriminalising drugs, commonly implicitly (or explicitly) invoke the ideas of well-known thinkers and philosophers including...

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Background After the 2008 Global Financial Crisis and resulting economic austerity, the rise in illicit drug use engendered an increased need for people who use drugs (PWUD) to access medical care, co...

Using the case of the campaign to establish a Supervised drug Injecting Facility (SIF) for people who use illicit drugs in Dublin, Ireland, this paper makes three related contributions to contemporar...

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Using the case of the campaign to establish a Supervised drug Injecting Facility (SIF) for people who use illicit drugs in Dublin, Ireland, this paper makes three related contributions to contemporar...

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