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Greens leader backs decriminalisation of ice

News Corp reports Federal leader Richard Di Natale and Queensland Senator Larissa Waters will tell a national drug summit that ice addicts should be able to use the drug without facing police action. […]

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. […]

Dying to dance

If the Government thinks that people are going to stop taking drugs, they’re kidding themselves.” […]

When addiction has a white face

When crack hit America in the mid-1980s, for African-Americans, to borrow from Ta-Nehisi Coates, civilization fell. […]

Why Australia needs drug consumption rooms

While the benefits of incarceration can be difficult to identify, Sydney’s Medically Supervised Injecting Centre produces larger financial savings than it costs to run. […]