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Newsbrief:
German
Drug
Deaths
Down,
Government
Cites
Harm
Reduction
Policies
9/10/04
The German Ministry of Health
and Social Security reported September 2 that drug-related deaths had decreased
by 11.6% in the first half of 2004. Some 555 died in Germany from
the use of illegal drugs during that period, down from more than 600 during
the same period a year earlier.
"The decrease of the drug
related deaths is a stable trend going back several years," said the German
state secretary for drug issues, Marion Caspers-Merk, in a statement announcing
the figures. "This is a confirmation of the drug policy of the federal
government, which has persevered in a number of measures to improve the
treatment of opiate addicts and to improve their chances to survive," he
said.
Germany has been a pioneer
in the use of safe injection rooms, opiate substitute treatments, and heroin
maintenance therapies.
"The quality of substitution
treatment has improved and the legal possibility to open consumption rooms
was created," Caspers-Merk added. "Furthermore, the model project
for heroin subscription contributes to the positive developments.
Nevertheless every death is one death too any. Therefore we need
to give more support to harm reduction and treatment of addiction."
(Thanks to Eberhard Schatz
for the translation.)
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Issue #353, 9/10/04
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