The NSW Users & AIDS Association

The Guardian newspaper has called on drug prohibition's defenders to show how the drug war can continue to be justified in the face of such dire results.

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It's Overdose Awareness time officially but OD is always important to people who use drugs, especially opioid users. A paper has been published by the Soros foundation in which the international drug user organisation, INPUD, argues that not only is  the provision of naloxone (narcan) a human right but that it is particularly important for people living with HIV.

The paper is available for download here.

Guardian writer Luis Hernandez Navarro argues in his comment column that his country Mexico's President Felipe Calderon took over in 2006 with a show of military force and he remains in the thrall of looking tough. Navarro argues that far from being a War on Drugs, it is a War on Mexico and it's people and Calderon maintains this war as a distraction from the fact that his election win was dogged by claims of electoral fraud. He also points out that this militarisation of drug law enforcement - taking it away from the police - has been aided and abetted by the US and has given it a credibility he sorely lacks otherwise.

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