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Super strength Ecstasy, mega dose opiates and the N-bomb flooding Australia in deadliest summer of drugs
“With no pill testing program here or harm minimisation culture like there is in Europe, we are estimating a truly abysmal summer of drug overdoses.” […]
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How Marijuana Won the Election
What Trump will do in light of his repeated calls for “law and order” and cracking down on crime is much harder to say. But if the man has an eye on winning a second term in 2020, he may not want to make weed his law enforcement priority. In most states where medical or recreational marijuana was on the…
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NZ: We regulate legal use of alcohol and tobacco, why not marijuana?
Cannabis law reform doesn’t mean putting marijuana in school canteens, says Drug Foundation boss Ross Bell. It’s about investing in more treatment programmes and dialling back the police and courts. […]
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It’s Been a Historic Election for Marijuana
Across the US, voters have spoken, and they are embracing marijuana. In California, Florida, and even North Dakota, measures to legalize recreational or medical marijuana have passed handily. […]
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The body count rises in the Phillipines
“Offhand, I can smell extrajudicial killing,” former national police chief Sen. Panfilo Lacson told CBS. […]
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Progress in war on drugs won’t come by locking more people up
Addiction is tough to beat, but the countries making progress aren’t calling for tougher laws and more prisons. How about we stop glorifying authoritarian law and order figures, declare a war on the war on drugs, and learn from the people and countries that are quietly and successfully setting about dealing with one of the biggest social problems of our…
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Australia providing training, support to Philippine police despite killing spree
Australia has provided wide-ranging training, support and assistance for Philippine police who are at the centre of president Rodrigo Duterte’s highly contentious crackdown on drugs that has left thousands of Filipinos dead. […]
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Blindfolded and hosed with water: drug rehab in the Philippines – in pictures
The Philippines’ president Rodrigo Duterte has waged a violent war on drugs since he came to power in June, forcing many users to register with the authorities and join rehabilitation centres – though there are few programmes to help them. Reuters photojournalist Erik de Castro visited the centres […]
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We Can’t ‘Breed Out’ Drug Addicts
Helping people with drug and alcohol problems is not the soft option, it is the smart option. Providing resources for family and treatment services achieves far better outcomes for the community than even more punishment ever will. […]
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Why the Codependency Myth of Drug Addiction Needs to Die
“It’s a mush of reasonable ideas—of course people depend on one another and care for one another—that got its own pathological label and, without a shred of data, was turned into a ‘diagnosis.’ […]
