Australia’s First Pill Testing Trial
On behalf of our STA-SAFE consortium partners, Harm Reduction Australia would like to advise that the first pill testing trial to ever be held in...
Category: Drug Policy
Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry into Drug Law Reform
Parliament of Victoria Law Reform, Road and Community Safety Committee Inquiry into drug law reform The Committee will inquire into, consider and report, on: The...
Parliamentary Inquiry into Crystal Methamphetamine
Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement Inquiry into crystal methamphetamine (ice) Final Report In particular, the committee will examine: the role of Commonwealth law enforcement...
Health and Social Services National Summit 2018
We the undersigned call on Australia’s federal, state and territory governments to treat drug use primarily as a health and social issue and to remove...
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...
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...