Remembrance Ceremony 2020
The 25th Annual Remembrance Ceremony will be going ahead this year, but we will be following Covid safety guidelines. It will be held on Monday…
If reducing harm to society is the goal, a cost-benefit analysis shows cannabis prohibition has failed
by Alexander GillespieProfessor of Law, University of Waikato Read the Full Article here The case for a referendum on New Zealand’s cannabis law was already...
Dispension’s biometric opioid vending machines ready for Canada-wide roll out
Dispensions biometric opioid vending machines ready for Canada-wide-roll-out The device was used in the MySafe project pilot, the first to involve Opioid Dispensing Kiosks and...
End the War on Drugs for Good | Christina Dent | TEDxJackson
In this heartfelt and thoughtful talk, Christina shares her ideas about the destructive impact of the war on drugs and the mounting evidence that the...
Australia’s Annual Overdose Report 2020
Australia’s Annual Overdose Report 2020 reveals that for the fifth year running, more than 2,000 Australians lost their lives to overdose in a single calendar year.
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...