Starving welfare recipients off drugs
You have to admit that having a go at drug users is enticing politics. What pushback could there be against introducing drug testing of welfare...
Author: marion
FFDLR Newsletter November 2017
Newsletter contains information on AGM & BBQ Thursday 23rd November Moving Forward – pill testing and injecting rooms Report on Remembrance Ceremony Starving Welfare Recipients...
Ceremony remembers a record number of overdose deaths
Contrary to all our hopes and in defiance of all our efforts over the past 22 years to prevent drug users dying, the 22nd annual...
Drug checking as a harm reduction tool for recreational drug users: opportunities and challenges
EMCDDA European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction drug checking pill testing harm reduction tool recreational drug users: opportunities and challenges Summary: A number...
Interview on 2CC – What does the Families and Friends for Drug Law Reform think about Pill Testing
Marion McConnell was interviewed by Chris Coleman on Radio Station 2CC following the shelving of the pill testing trial that had been given the go...
Letters re Harm Reduction
Here are two letters published in the Canberra Times with different thoughts on harm reduction. One is by Bill Bush, President FFDLR (Oct 14) and...
Potential to save lives at dance festival stopped
Potential to save lives at dance festival stopped Families and Friends for Drug Law Reform are dismayed at the shelving of the pill testing trial...
September 2017 Newsletter
FFDLR September Newsletter includes information on the Remembrance Ceremony, Uniting Church Campaign for Drug Law Reform, Monash University Forum on Drug Policy, Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry...
National Drug Strategy Household Survey 2016: detailed findings
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare The AIHW produces high-quality reports and other information products, on key health and welfare issues in Australia. These are...
National Drug Strategy Household Survey 2016: detailed findings – AIHW
This 2016 National Drug Strategy Household Survey report shows that: the decline in daily smoking slowed in 2016 but improvements were seen among people living...