Video – Half a Million Steps
In October 2018, as part of the Fair Treatment campaign, 100 supporters walked the 500,000 steps from Dubbo to Sydney to highlight the distance a…
The Greens – Reducing harm from drug and alcohol use
https://greens.org.au/act/reducing-harm-drugs-alcohol The Greens want to create a safe, healthy and connected community, by ensuring people are not impacted by significant health, social, legal and economic...
National Drug Strategy Household Survey 2019: detailed findings
Australian Institute of Health and WelfareT national-drug-strategy-household-survey-2019 The 2019 National Drug Strategy Household Survey report showed that: fewer Australians are smoking tobacco daily, while the...
“Modern-day leper”: How drug policy is isolating Canberrans from help
“If former Chief Minister Kate Carnell had been allowed to finish her proposed six-month trial of a safe-injecting room in Canberra, there would be no...
Pill testing, safe injecting room support jumps in ACT as drug use goes up: AIHW
“The [National Drug Strategy Household Survey] survey found 57 per cent of Australians supported pill testing (around one-quarter opposed) while 47 per cent supported supervised...
Video – Achieving Drug Law Reform: Lessons from COVID-19
Fair Treatment Campaign Video – A discussion with the Global Commission on Drug Policy with members Hons. Helen Clark and Geoff Gallop.
Youth Mental Health submission by FFDLR
Inquiry into Youth Mental Health in the ACT by the Standing Committee on Education, Employment and Youth Affairs Submission of Families and Friends for Drug...
Decriminalise Drugs
The release of wastewater data revealing an overall increase in drug use shows the government’s illicit drug policies, based on law enforcement and dedicated to...
FFDLR Newsletter May 2020
Articles in this issue include: Emergency action in response to Covid-19 Fair Treatment campaign – Watch “Half a Million Steps” online Global Commission of Drug...
EMERGENCY ACTION IN RESPONSE TO THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC
COVID-19 demands action and provides the opportunity to get the most disadvantaged and needy out of prisons. FFDLR CALLS FOR 1.The establishment of clinics in...