August 2016 Newsletter
The August 2016 Newsletter is now online. It contains information on ACT October Election and Election Forum Overdose Awareness Day, Jack Waterford’s Canberra Times article on the ineffectiveness of current...
The August 2016 Newsletter is now online. It contains information on ACT October Election and Election Forum Overdose Awareness Day, Jack Waterford’s Canberra Times article on the ineffectiveness of current...
The July Newsletter is now online and contains information about initiatives in August from the Canberra Alliance for Harm Minimisation and Advocacy (CAHMA), reports on a number of conferences we...
The June Newsletter is now online including: Brian McConnell’s Order of Australia Medal Brian McConnell’s Funeral and many thoughts from members...
The FFDLR Newsletter May 2016 is now online featuring Canberra Alliance for Participatory Democracy (CAPaD) CANBERRA DECLARATION ON ILLICIT DRUGS important background information for the upcoming elections and much more....
Taken from the online bmj: The war on drugs has failed: doctors should lead calls for drug policy reform Subtitle: Evidence and ethics should inform policies that promote health and...
The April Newsletter April 2016 is now online. Featuring highlights from the UN Drug Summit, the successful grant for Hepatitis C Awareness Activities for the AIVL, insights into the link...
...Strategy Action Plan 2018-2021 (the Action Plan) outlines ACT Government priorities to address and minimise harms from alcohol, tobacco, illicit drugs and non-medical use of pharmaceuticals in the territory. https://www.health.act.gov.au/about-our-health-systempopulation-health/act-drug-strategy-action-plan...
...far as it distanced users from the harmful impacts of the criminal justice system, it was to be welcomed. I framed Angela Smith’s critical comments about the difficult position in...
...with the death rate steadily increasing over a decade and now at 7.5 deaths per 100,000 Australians – data released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shows. http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/by%20Subject/3303.0~2016~Media%20Release~Drug%20Induced%20Deaths%20Increase%20in%202016%20(Media%20Release)~9...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n_RPDuNY6c Please check out Uniting’s full version of the evening here....