Background The availability of new psychoactive substances (NPS) in Europe has rapidly
increased over the last decade. Although prevalence levels of NPS use remain low in the …

Abstract Background In Hungary a large increase in injecting new psychoactive substances
(NPS) coincided with decreasing harm reduction efforts and rising HCV infection. We …

Background There has been an almost exponential growth in the number of new
psychoactive substances (NPS) on the drug markets in Europe during the past decade …

This article introduces an analytic of discursive and material failure, developing a spatial
grammar for analysing both the discursive framing of policies as failed and the actually …

Background The two largest needle exchange programs (NEPs) in Hungary were forced to
close down in the second half of 2014 due to extreme political attacks and related lack of …

Abstract Background and Aims In April 2015, the UK government enacted a temporary class
drug order (TCDO) on ethylphenidate in response to reported harms associated with its use …

Background Until about 2010, people who inject drugs (PWIDs) injected almost exclusively
heroin and amphetamines in Hungary. After 2010, self-reported studies have indicated a …

Objectives Outbreaks of HIV infection have been linked to injectable drug abuse, but specific
triggers often remain obscure. We report on an outbreak of primary HIV infection among …

The emergence of NPS over the last decade poses an important challenge to drug policy
(UNODC, 2013). While prevalence levels of NPS use remain low in the general European …

This chapter considers the prevalence of and motivations for use of synthetic cathinones. As
part of the scene-setting, the availability, legal status, numbers of cathinones, number and …