ACT Drug Strategy Action Plan
The ACT Drug Strategy Action Plan 2018-2021 (the Action Plan) outlines ACT Government priorities to address and minimise harms from alcohol, tobacco, illicit drugs and...
How is Australia responding to the pharmaceutical opioid problem?
Dr Gabrielle Campbell, NHMRC Australian Public Health Early Career Fellow at NDARC, UNSW. In the last twenty years there have been substantial increases in the...
The Pill Gamble
Link to SBS Insight’s first episode of 2019 ‘The Pill Gamble’ preview. Additional articles about Pill Testing can also be found on this page. Unlike...
Response to QandA on Drugs
To watch the full QandA session or read the transcript click here. The ABC QandA program on Monday 18 February covered drug law reform issues...
INjustice reinvestment
IIt is difficult to imagine a more confused and confusing set of measures than those being pursued by the ACT government. On the one hand...
FFDLR Newsletter February 2019
Articles in this issue include: Injustice re-investment by Bill Bush QandA, Pill Testing Michael Petterson’s Cannabis Bill Some response to questions on the QandA program...
Q&A on Drug Law Reform issues
Below is an invitation to join ABC TV’s Q&A for its Drug Policy special on February 18. It is really important to have people in...
Notes on Pill Testing by FFDLR
The value of pill testing as a harm reduction measure that saves lives and reduces the risk of other serious harm
President’s Annual Report 2018
2018 has seen an unprecedented amount of action in support of drug law reform. Most notably this has involved Uniting’s fair treatment campaign launched in...
Drug checking as a harm reduction tool for recreational drug users: opportunities and challenges
Background paper commissioned by the EMCDDA for Health and social responses to drug problems: a European guide http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/document-library/drug-checking-pill-testing-harm-reduction-tool-recreational-drug-users-opportunities-and-challenges_en