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Philippines: Reinstating police to anti-drug operations risks ‘catastrophic wave of violence’
Responding to news that Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the police to resume their role in supporting his administration’s controversial ‘war on drugs’, James Gomez, Amnesty International’s Southeast Asia and the Pacific Director, said: “In returning police to his anti-drug operations yet again, President Duterte has consigned the poorest and most marginalised people in the Philippines to another catastrophic…
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Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it?
The law was merely a reflection of transformations that were already happening in clinics, in pharmacies and around kitchen tables across the country. The official policy of decriminalisation made it far easier for a broad range of services (health, psychiatry, employment, housing etc) that had been struggling to pool their resources and expertise, to work together more effectively to serve…
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Amnesty International urges ICC to start probe into PH drug war killings
It is time for international justice mechanisms to step in and end the carnage on Philippine streets by bringing the perpetrators to justice,” said James Gomez, AI’s regional director for Southeast Asia and the Pacific. […]
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The Government Will Ditch Their Shitty Plan To Drug-Test Welfare Recipients
The Turnbull Government‘s really quite bad plan to drug-test young people in low socio-economic areas receiving welfare assistance will be mercifully put on ice, after the embattled Government failed to secure crossbench support for the controversial measures. The plan was bashed from pillar to post by just about every opposing politician, and critically a throng of leading medical and social welfare organisations,…
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Greens launch bid to legalise pill testing in Victoria
The Victorian Greens are defying the Labor Government’s opposition to pill testing with a new plan to reduce overdoses and save lives at festivals. On Wednesday morning the Greens first read a bill that would give medical and forensic experts an exemption from criminal charges to conduct lab-grade pill testing at major events. […]
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Shane Rattenbury wants pill-testing trialled somewhere other than music festivals
ACT Greens leader Shane Rattenbury has urged his cabinet colleagues to look at other places pill testing could take place, after the Spilt Milk music festival pulled out of an Australian-first trial. […]
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What goes on inside a medically supervised injection facility?
A medically-supervised injecting centre is a physical space where it’s legal for people who inject drugs to come with pre-obtained substances and inject themselves. The key point is that rather than just being supplied with clean injecting equipment and then sent away to inject elsewhere, people are also provided with a safe space to inject. […]
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Drug checking – how people use and what do they learn
With its origins going back 25 years in countries like the Netherlands, Switzerland and Austria (and even back to San Francisco in the late 1960s!), drug checking in all its guises is sweeping both hemispheres. […]
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Advocates want pill testing at Groovin the Moo as research launched
Advocates are still keen to bring pill testing to Groovin the Moo in Canberra next year, saying their plan to trial testing at Saturday’s Spilt Milk festival was “vandalised” by the Liberal Party. […]
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What Exactly Happened With Aussie Fest Spilt Milk’s Failed Pill Testing Trial?
While it’s a debate that will surely continue for a long time from both sides of the fence, Dr Caldicott’s final point is probably a good summation of the youth vote on the issue, referring to the politicians he believes blocked the trial at this point. “This is a brilliant way of completely distancing yourself from an entire demographic of parents and…
