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Greens leader Richard Di Natale wants pill testing in Australia
Federal Greens leader, Senator Richard Di Natale, has reiterated his calls for Australia to introduce testing of illicit drugs. […]
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Why deaths won’t stop the party: Drug test kits gain popularity as festival overdoses soar
As hospital admissions for ecstasy and MDMA use soar in Australia, the chilling stories of festival overdoses are failing to stop young people risking their lives. […]
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A handful of nails for the coffin of the ‘failed and counter-productive’ war on drugs
The War on Drugs has proven to be “a failed and counter-productive strategy”. […]
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We can’t eradicate drugs, but we can stop people dying from them
Not only is what Australia doing not working, we’re falling behind the rest of the world and what evidence says is best to ensure we have fewer deaths from illicit drugs. […]
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BOCSAR crime stats boss Don Weatherburn calls for lighter prison sentences
The state’s top statistician has called for a complete overhaul of the way crime and imprisonment is addressed in NSW. […]
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The war on drugs has become an embarrassment of Orwellian proportions
Another week passes and, somewhere in Australia, another announcement by a Justice Minister is made on how we are winning the so-called ‘War on Drugs’. […]
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Landmark decision opens first needle exchange in conservative Orange County
The California Department of Public Health has approved the first ever needle exchange in Orange County. […]
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A Maryland lawmaker’s paradigm-shifting approach to the heroin and pain pill crisis
Veteran Maryland Delegate Dan Morhaim (D-Baltimore County) has just introduced a package of bills that would begin to move the state’s posture toward drug use from prohibition to public health and harm reduction. […]
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Kenya: drug users need doctors not policemen
The recent increase in drug use in Kenya, coupled with the rising HIV epidemic among key populations, calls for a critical review of how drug using populations are managed. […]
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Australia’s former top cop Mick Palmer says drug policy is failing, new approach needed
The former head of the AFP, Mick Palmer, and the former NSW Director of Public Prosecutions, Nicholas Cowdrey, have both told Four Corners current drug policy isn’t working and a new approach is needed. […]
