Latest update: 05/02/2010

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Safe injection rooms for drug users?

In France there's an ongoing debate whether it's time to open injection rooms also known as shooting galleries. Those in favour say it would reduce risks of fatal overdose as well as disease by providing drug-users a as a place to inject and a clean syringe. Critics fear it could encourage drug use as well as local crime around the injection rooms.

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By Kate WILLIAMS / Patrick LOVETT / Rabah ZANOUN

10/02/2012 - FRANCE

Renault's new factory sends French workers into a spin

Renault boss Carlos Ghosn and Morocco's King Mohammed VI opened the carmaker's new factory near Tangiers on Thursday with great ceremony. The plant will have an initial capacity of 170,000 vehicles, expected eventually to reach 400,000. Yet the partly state-owned Renault has faced a storm of criticism over the project, seen by some in France as denying French workers jobs that were rightfully theirs.

09/02/2012 - CHINA

The war on microblogs

The Chinese government is cracking down on the country's most popular microblogs in an effort to prevent any Facebook or Twitter-inspired revolution spreading to China. As of mid-March, users of Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, will be forced to register their microblogs under their real name. But with 250 million Chinese people logged on, it's unlikely the government can clamp down completely.

09/02/2012 - GREECE

Greeks fear austerity overdose

Just how much more belt-tightening can the Greek population bear? As Greece's government prepares a new austerity plan, a condition for receiving a second vital bailout from the European Union, European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, protests have become a regular fixture in Athens. Greeks say they're being bled dry.

08/02/2012 - GERMANY

Germany's green growth running out of steam

The German government plans to decommission its nuclear plants by 2022 and to obtain 80% of all energy from renewables by 2050. Today, renewable energy sources already account for nearly a fifth of Germany's electricity, but the construction and transfer of wind energy from offshore farms is not making as much headway as had been expected.

08/02/2012 - NIGERIA

Inter-religious tensions set northern Nigeria on edge

Nigeria is battling a bloody insurgency launched by radical Islamist sect Boko Haram. The group want to overthrow the government and establish an Islamic state. In January, a string of attacks in the north of the country killed 185 people. As President Goodluck Jonathan confronts the violence in the town of Kano, tensions continue to simmer.

Comments (5)

good idea

by Anonyme - 11/02/2010 - 15:34

up to now we haven't yet had a good way to avoid, stop the drug injection, so better to provide the clean , private place for them, also put them little annonces to help them understand the risks and disadvantages of drugs, gradually educating them to stop or reduce drugs injections under self-conscience, it could be heard too ideal, but more or less it will work than nothing..also can stop the interinfection among the drug users. provide enough hygiene environment to reduce the worse situation.

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safe injection sites

by Anonyme - 08/02/2010 - 18:15

We have one here in Vancouver and it has been an effective harm-reduction tool. After seeing the suffering experienced by the addicts I find it difficult to believe that anyone who entered such a facility would feel encouraged to try drugs!

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Health

by Anonyme - 07/02/2010 - 07:08

Oh my GOD,were does France go?

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Wow

by Anonyme - 07/02/2010 - 03:06

I can't believe it... A women who chooses to wear a burqa in a public institution might be illegal. Yet, there is a debate of using tax money for "safe" drug injection

For the record, no injection of heroin is "safe."

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NOBLE REASONING

by Anonyme - 05/02/2010 - 21:29

THIS IS TAKING AN INITIATIVE,IN THE HISTORY OF THE HUMAN KIND WE HAVE BEEN FIGTING THE DRUG PROBLEM .THE BURNING QUESTION CAN WE WIN A WAR AGAINST A LIFESTYLE ,I DOUBT,I BELIEVE THIS IS ONE WAY OF DEALING WITH THE PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH DRUG USE NO DOUBT IT WILL HAVE ITS NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES BUT RIGHT NOW IT IS A VIABLE SOLUTION

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