International Family Drug Support Day, Canberra
Marion McConnell speaks at the International Family Drug Support Day held at Parliament House, Canberra on Monday 26 February. “Just a couple of weeks ago...
Category: Drug Policy
Drugs and Driving
Drugs and driving – FFDLR comment following media speculation on methadone causing tragic accident. No one should drive while their capacity to do so is...
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...
Drugs test is a fail
The following letter written by Bill Bush, President, Families and Friends for Drug Law Reform was published in the Canberra Times on Thursday 24 August,...
HEROIN PRESCRIPTION:THE NEED FOR RATIONAL DRUG POLICY
This is the video from the seminar held on 27 July, 2017 to commemorate 20 years since the Federal Government abandoned the Heroin Prescription Trial....
Inaction on drugs
The following letter was published in the Canberra Times on 25 April, 2017 following the inaction of the ACT Chief Minister on introducing pill testing...
Make drugs boring
Letter to the Editor, Canberra Times by Bill Bush of Families and Friends for Drug Law Reform “Prohibition hands control to criminals and stimulates demand...
Heroin deaths prompt renewed calls for Victorian safe injecting rooms
Heroin overdose deaths is what began Families and Friends for Drug Law Reform 21 years ago. It is most distressing that these deaths continue today...
Good move on suicide
The following letter by Bill Bush was published in the Canberra Times on 24/1/2017 Families and Friends for Drug Law Reform (FFDLR) applauds the Capital...
We Should ‘Just Say No’ to Australia’s Approach to Drugs
Gino Vumbaca, President of Harm Reduction Australia writes in the Huffington Post How many more people need to die before we change this flawed system?...