The inaugural National Family Drug Support Day is an opportunity to speak out and ask for understanding, support and changes in attitude. […]

Behind every alcohol- and drug-related death or arrest statistic, there is a family in desperate need of support. But these families often go unaided, forced to live in a “cloud of stigma and shame”. […]

PBS’ Frontline news series airs a two-hour documentary “Chasing Heroin,” which details Seattle’s cutting-edge response to the heroin epidemic. Spoiler: harm reduction works. […]

The long running debate about illicit drugs policy has moved a great deal in the last five years. But social policy reform is a different matter from a debate. […]

Tony Trimingham is today calling for radical changes to Australia’s drug policy. […]

Australia remains disconnected to more enlightened drug policies internationally. No major country, however, dares argue for the complete legalisation of all drugs. […]

The Australian parliament passed new national laws today paving the way for the use of medicinal cannabis by people with painful and chronic illness. […]

Marijuana legalization advances in Vermont; medical marijuana advances in Connecticut, Australia, and Canada; Eric Holder says it’s time to reschedule marijuana, Obama says restricting pain pills won’t solve the opioid crisis, and more. […]

The Australian drug expert who pioneered the nation’s first legal injecting centre has put himself on a collision course with the Baird government and NSW Police by vowing to break the law and roll out pill testing at Sydney’s forthcoming music festivals. […]

One state Labor MP, Member for Summer Hill Jo Haylen, is bucking the party line and calling for change. […]