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Police and public health deal with many of the same issues, but most often in isolation from each other, and often at cross-purposes. Many of the most urgent and critical current social, [...]

Dr. Maurice Punch’s illustrious career in criminal justice spans the UK, the Netherlands, and the USA, provides a rich comparative analysis of policing systems. His work delves into the [...]

Abstract This comparative study analyses the implementation of policies on so-called ‘problem drugs’ (crack cocaine and heroin) for the cities of Amsterdam (in the Netherlands) and Porto Alegre [...]

IntroductionThe global community has made significant progress in responding to the HIV pandemic but concentrated epidemics amongst key populations still persist and present ongoing challenges. [...]

Abstract This Overview of International Literature collates what we understand to be a full list of the relevant published papers and reports on drug consumption rooms (DCRs) and supervised [...]

Around the world, sex workers and people who use drugs report that police are often a major impediment to accessing health and social services. Common police practices—using condoms as evidence [...]

National police officers and National AIDS Programme heads from Cambodia, Maldives, Mongolia, Philippines, and Sri Lanka visited India last mnth to get a firsthand experience of law enforcement [...]

Objectives: The objectives of this study were to estimate the cost-effectiveness of a harm reduction intervention among injecting drug users (IDUs) in Odessa, Ukraine; and to explore how the [...]

Abstract Having identified gaps in implementation of Rhode Island’s syringe access law and police occupational safety education, public health and police professionals developed police [...]

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