Law and Policy / Harm Reduction

Documents:

• Safer Cocaine Administration
  An alternative to snorting powder, by an anonymous former user.
• How to Shoot Heroin
• Nitrous Oxide Dangers
• Street Heroin Purification
  by Steve J. Quest
• New York Through the Eye of a Needle
  By Peter McDermott. From "The Face", Oct 1992
• What is Khat?
  "Street Advisory" by OASAS, the New York Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services
• MDMA Safe Use Tips
• Adolescents Begin Using Drugs out of Curiousity, by Psic. Armando Loizaga Pazzi
  From Ayahuasca-Wasi, Transpersonal Shamanism Research Project

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Contacts and URLs:

• DanceSafe (homepage, more info)
  "Promoting health and safety within the nightclub community." Offers harm-reduction information on MDMA and other drugs, Ecstasy testing kits, etc.
• DrugText (homepage, more info)
  Netherlands-based harm reduction site.
• Hedonistic Imperative (homepage, more info)
  Entry point for an eclectic group of sites with information and opinions on many things, including drugs.
  • "Just say know" to teenagers and marijuana
    Abstract from J Psychoactive Drugs 1998 Apr-Jun; 30(2):197-203. (related items...)
• Lindesmith Center (homepage, more info)
  • The State of Ecstasy: Conference
    The Medicine, Science & Culture of MDMA (related items...)
• MAPS (homepage, more info)
  Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
  • Marijuana Water Pipe and Vaporizer Study
    Comparison of the relative health risks of smoking joints/pipes, water pipes, and vaporizers. (related items...)
• RaveSafe (homepage, more info)
  A South African harm reduction page.
• Salon.com (homepage, more info)
  Web magazine with excellent reporting on drug policy issues.
  • The disunited states of ecstasy
    At an all-day conference on MDMA, ravers, researchers and anti-drug crusaders debate its pros and cons. Consensus? Just say maybe. (related items...)
• Stanton Peele Addiction Website (homepage, more info)
  "A comprehensive collection of material relating to every aspect of the addictive experience, maintained by this noted author and independent addiction researcher."
  • The Drug Reform Movement is Doing the Wrong Thing
    by Stanton Peele (related items...)
• Miscellaneous URLs
  • Proposition 36
    Text of initiative recently passed in California, mandating treatment for nonviolent drug offenders. (related items...)

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