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Pill Testing: What’s the evidence?

Critical overdose events at three Australian dance parties in January this year, have led to more calls for Pill Testing (PT) to be introduced as part of our nation’s effective Harm Minimisation drug...

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Dr. Albert Stuart Reece again restricted by medical authorities

The Medical Board of Australia has placed fifteen limitations on the practice of Dr. Stuart Reece of Highgate Hill QLD. The conditions, enforced on 21 December 2022, have resulted in the temporary...

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International Overdose Awareness Day – August 31st

Time To Remember                                  Time To Act     Twitter Facebook   August 31st is International Overdose Awareness Day. Access the IOAD link above to find an activity, get resources...

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A Little Boy Lost and the Goat in the Sheep’s paddock

A few days ago Australia’s Seven Network screened Saving Chase as the subject of their Sunday Night programme. The general plight of Chase can be gleaned from watching the programme. However this...

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Cannabis misinformation and the anti-drug lobby

The most dangerous aspect of drug use is that the chemical becomes the centre of life, leads to physical debilitation after tolerance is reached, and no amount of drug produces the necessary euphoria –...

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Naltrexone implants backed by zealotry but not evidence

Less than a month after Sydney coroner Mary Jerrum referred a provider of naltrexone implants to the NSW Health Care Complaints Commission, the Christian Democrats’ Reverend Fred Nile revealed he wants...

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Costing the USA’s failed war on drugs

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Global Commission on Drug Policy: HIV Report

FULL REPORT HERE On Tuesday June 26th the report’s release was streamed live

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Drug War tactics driving up HIV/AIDS

The Global Commission on Drug Policy recently released yet another report condemning illicit drug prohibition and the War on Drugs. Entitled The War on Drugs and HIV/AIDS – how the criminalisation of...

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Harm Reduction: How Australia Stopped HIV

In 1985 before the introduction of needle and syringe programmes (NSP) 90% of Australian injection drug users reported sharing injection equipment. By 1994 following introduction of NSPs this figure...

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Australia still shirking drug policy discourse

The prohibition of illicit drugs is killing and criminalising our children, and we are all letting it happen Senator Bob Carr (Foreign Affairs Minister), Mick Palmer (former Federal Police Chief),...

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Drug Free Australia’s attack on Insite really an attack on individual scientists

A close look at Drug Free Australia’s recent attack on research supporting Vancouver’s Safe Injecting Facility, Insite, suggests a long planned attack on individual authors, not evidence. Recently I...

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Legal synthetic drugs leading to arms race of prohibition

Few things underscore the failure of the war on drugs quite like the, well… failure of the war on drugs. Two mornings ago I read in the press Synthetic drugs banned ahead of schoolies. Attorney-General...

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Drug Free Australia manipulate, misrepresent data to discredit Insite

In April 2011 the Lancet published an article written by authors from the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, the UBC Faculty of Medicine, the UBC School of Population and Public Health...

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