Families and Friends for Drug Law Reform was formed as a direct result of heroin related deaths in the Australian Capital Territory. It believes that prohibition laws are more the problem than the solution. It seeks laws and policies which will eliminate the deaths and minimise the health and social harm.
FFDLR believes society should help people come through any drug using experience alive and as healthy as possible. In other words FFDLR is about promotion of life and wellbeing. This is more important than being "drug free".
Its members include parents, siblings, friends, past and present illicit drug users and other concerned members of the community.
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Current issues & events
The German parliament passed the law
last Thursday evening (28 May 2009) following a careful trial and evaluation
in 6 cities. Eligible persons for admission to the treatment will be those
over 23 years of age and who have been addicted for more than five years and
who have failed to respond to other treatments. Germany has now joined Switzerland, The Netherlands, Denmark and the United Kingdom in making prescription heroin a standard treatment for those severely addicted to opiates who have failed other treatments. In 2001 Portugal decriminalised all drugs including heroin and cocaine. There were many who predicted adverse outcomes such as rampant drug use, high rates of drug tourism, increased addiction and related illnesses. However some eight years later, none of these predictions have eventuated. More here>>>
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