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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. […]
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Dying to dance
“If the Government thinks that people are going to stop taking drugs, they’re kidding themselves.” […]
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Una Mullally: It’s ludicrous to hand over drug quality control to criminal gangs
The highest level in Europe of so-called ‘legal high’ drug use was found among young Irish people […]
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AIDS Moncton gives out crack pipes to area drug users
AIDS Moncton has quietly been supplying drug users in southeastern New Brunswick with reusable crack pipes for more than three years. […]
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The new war on drugs: harm reduction, needle exchange used more in fight against heroin
When the War On Drugs proved unsuccessful, researchers, clinicians, and lawmakers were forced to go back to the drawing board. […]
