...should not be given a false sense of security. However, studies have shown that “The experience of testing and the accompanying harm reduction brief interventions produced a number of positive...
...laws, policies and procedures cause harms to individuals, families and communities; lack of leadership, innovation and consideration of overseas experiences, including changes occurring in the UN; lack of balance; and...
...drug use, maintaining law enforcement against the drug-traders but showing new compassion for drug-users, that through such programs as injecting rooms and heroin trials the death toll will be reduced...
...experts in drug treatment, drug law, community welfare and the social effects of drug use, to explore the ways drug policies and practices across Australia impact on our society. http://australia21.org.au/product/we-all-pay-the-price/#.XICYnrhS9PY...
...in the newsletter Drug Policy Series – Highlights from the March 2019 Commission on Narcotic Drug ACT Inquiry into Personal Cannabis Use Submission to the Australian Productivity Commission Invitation to...
By Matt Wordsworth Key points: The Queensland Productivity Commission says “all available evidence” shows the war on drugs fails to restrict usage or supply Queensland spends $500 million a year...
...This has not been an activity that condones drug use but rather it sees that young people take these drugs even though they are prohibited and police presence has not...
...and hopeful to see that the conversation around drug use and how we as society should address it, gain greater traction in the recent year. Through campaigns, political conversations, the...
Items in this newsletter include: Editorial: Now for the evidence Ecstasy use shoots up across the city ‘My thoughts on anti-social behaviour’ by Colin Hales Radical alternatives proposed for cannabis...
Items in this newsletter include: Editorial: The war continues in Mexico La Familia cartel kills 12 federal agents in Mexico drug war attack Heroin seizures and heroin use in Scotland...