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The ABC’s ‘Ice Wars’ Is Exploiting Vulnerable Addicts
What (we) don’t need is the ABC piling even more pressure on them with stories and interviews that are ethically and factually questionable. The focus on the extreme individual situations in these programmes are likely to fill families with despair rather than hope. We have witnessed many successful treatment outcomes from…
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Submission to Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement Inquiry into Crystal Methamphetamine
Read a joint submission from Harm Reduction Australia (HRA), Students for Sensible Drug Policy Australia (SSDP) and the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement Inquiry into Crystal Methamphetamine. […]
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Melb Uni students to get drug test kits
Melbourne University’s student union will provide free drug testing kits for students who want to ensure their party drugs are what they are supposed to be. […]
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Trudeau talks tough on cannabis legalisation
Crucially, Trudeau stressed his preference for legalisation, as opposed to decriminalisation, which he feels does not do enough to shut down the criminal market and to prevent children from consuming cannabis. […]
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Police key to battling ice scourge in Northern Territory and Australia
Ted Noffs Foundation’s Matt Noffs said many people blamed police officers for exacerbating problems with ice, but frustrated police officers also wanted change. He said the most powerful tool for a police officer was “discretion”. According to Mr Noffs, supervised drug consumption rooms where drug users could access clean equipment,…
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Mandatory treatment not effective at reducing drug use, violates human rights, researchers say
Clinician researchers assessed current global evidence and found that mandatory treatment for people with substance use disorders is not effective in reducing their drug use. […]
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Launch of Harm Reduction Australia
Australia’s first national harm reduction organisation for individuals committed to reducing the health, social and economic harms potentially associated with drug use – Harm Reduction Australia (HRA) – was launched at Parliament House in Canberra. […]
