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...
View ArticleDr. 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...
View ArticleInternational 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleCannabis 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 –...
View ArticleNaltrexone 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...
View ArticleCosting the USA’s failed war on drugs
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View ArticleGlobal Commission on Drug Policy: HIV Report
FULL REPORT HERE On Tuesday June 26th the report’s release was streamed live
View ArticleDrug 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...
View ArticleHarm 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...
View ArticleAustralia 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),...
View ArticleDrug 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...
View ArticleLegal 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...
View ArticleDrug 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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