The Norwegian representative welcomed the INCB report as it pinpoints central challenges facing us all. They fully associated themselves with the previous statement made on behalf of the EU.

They stated that low-threshold approaches must be expanded in order to counter blood-borne viruses and exlicitly included harm reduction interventions within these.

On drug consumption rooms (DCR), they felt that the INCB report referred only to the negative findings in research on DCRs and not the positive aspects of this intervention.