Items tagged with australia
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| Fatal fentanyl overdoses rise as Australians turn to more potent painkillers [31.08.2017] | Concerns are growing that more Australians addicted to pharmaceutical painkillers are turning to highly potent forms of opioids, such as fentanyl. A ... |
| Support users, don't punish them: Ex-AFP boss' radical ideas to beat the drug trade [13.06.2017] | For over half a century governments in Australia have relied heavily on law enforcement to curb the drug trade and reduce drug use. But despite huge ... |
| Proportion of UK drug users using dark net to buy drugs 'doubles in three years' [25.05.2017] | There has been a huge rise in the number of UK drug users using the dark internet to buy illegal substances, a new survey has revealed. The Global Dr ... |
| Canada and eight US states have done it. Why can't NSW legalise cannabis? [24.04.2017] | In Australia the long arm of the law still has a long reach, waging a war on drugs. Last year, there were more than 26,000 criminal incidents of cann ... |
| The new opium wars [01.02.2017] | Are pharmaceutical companies based in advanced economies the right ones to soothe the developing world’s pains? The International Narcotics Control B ... |
| Medicinal cannabis crops now legal in Australia [29.10.2016] | Budding cannabis producers can now apply for a licence to legally grow the crop in Australia, for medicinal use only. The Narcotic Drugs Amendment Ac ... |
| Hysteria about drugs and harm minimisation [11.08.2016] | No matter how impressive the evidence of benefits, or how weak the evidence of serious side effects or how badly a strategy is needed, new harm reduc ... |
| The safe room [01.07.2016] | With Australia struggling to curb its crisis with methamphetamine two leading drug reform campaigners, Dr Alex Wodak and Matt Noffs, embarked on a re ... |
| Drug experts plan Australia's first ice smoking room despite Government opposition [29.06.2016] | Drug law reformers Matt Noffs and Dr Alex Wodak are pushing ahead with Australia's first supervised ice smoking room, in a move which directly contra ... |
| Drug expert says Australia's presence at UN summit a waste of money [07.04.2016] | The president of the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation, Dr Alex Wodak, has questioned Australia’s attendance at the special session of the United ... |
| Parliamentary drug summit to hear case in favour of decriminalising possession [29.02.2016] | Senior doctors and researchers will tell an annual parliamentary drug policy summit in Australia it is “time to be courageous” and remove all crimina ... |
| Pill testing trial to begin at Sydney music festivals, vows drug expert Alex Wodak [27.02.2016] | The Australian drug expert who pioneered the nation's first legal injecting centre is on a collision course with the Baird government and NSW Police ... |
| Ex-NSW DPP boss pushes to legalise drugs [18.02.2016] | Former NSW director of public prosecutions Nicholas Cowdery joined federal Australian Greens leader Richard Di Natale to call on Australian governmen ... |
| Call to make ecstasy legal and sell it at pharmacies [04.07.2015] | Australians should be able to buy a pure form of ecstasy from their local pharmacy to curtail the harm caused by contaminated blackmarket pills. Melb ... |
| Chan and Sukumaran execution 'illegal', but Indonesia ignores Australia again [01.05.2015] | The execution of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran was illegal under international law, but Australia's request that Indonesia submit to the judgment ... |
| An injecting room worked for heroin. Let's have one to help beat ice [30.03.2015] | In its report on the methamphetamine market, the Australian Crime Commission identified ice as the illicit drug posing the highest risk to Australia. ... |
| Teens are being used as guinea pigs in the synthetic drugs market [02.03.2015] | The low volume, high frequency internet drugs market makes it hard for police to target. And even harder for teenagers to know what they’re taking. A ... |
| Synthetic cannabis deaths show case for controlled sale of marijuana, expert says [15.01.2015] | The deaths of two men in central Queensland after they smoked synthetic cannabis highlight the need to regulate marijuana and allow its controlled sa ... |
| Medical marijuana finds crossbench backers in Australian parliament [05.01.2015] | The campaign to legalise marijuana for medical purposes in Australia is gathering strength with a group of crossbench senators and MPs pushing for th ... |
| Law Committee suggests drug control needs radical rethink [22.12.2014] | The Criminal Law Committee of the NSW Bar Association decided to look at the available research on illicit drugs and the current government drug stra ... |
| Victoria to legalise medicinal marijuana [18.12.2014] | A bill to legalise medical marijuana could be put to Victoria's parliament before the end of next year, with the Labor government determined to refor ... |
| First lesson for new inquiry into ice: we've lost the war on drugs [16.12.2014] | Five Labor and three Conservative governments adopted harm minimisation as Australia’s official national drug policy on 2 April 1985 and every Common ... |
| Drug possession arrests double in past six years across NSW [27.11.2014] | The number of people arrested for possessing drugs in New South Wales (Australia) has doubled over the past six years, with NSW leading a national tr ... |
| Tony Abbott backs legalisation of medical cannabis [16.09.2014] | Prime Minister Tony Abbott has thrown his support behind the legalisation of cannabis for medical purposes. Mr Abbott went even further than NSW Prem ... |
| Majority of Australians support medical marijuana [22.07.2014] | Almost two-thirds of Australians support the legalisation of cannabis for medicinal purposes, according to a new poll which coincides with a renewed ... |
| Should kratom use be legal? [29.09.2013] | The leaves of kratom, a native of Southeast Asia in the coffee family, are used to relieve pain and improve mood as an opiate substitute and stimulan ... |
| Drop charges over ecstasy, police urged [21.03.2013] | Ecstasy users should not be charged by police, former Labor health minister Neal Blewett said during a provocative keynote address to the peak police ... |
| Towards a Safer Drug Policy [14.01.2013] | For forty years the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 has formed the corner stone of drug policy in Britain. The emergence of new psychoactive substances (‘le ... |
| Drug use is an issue for society, not the criminal justice system [10.09.2012] | There is no reliable evidence that tougher criminal sanctions deter drug use or offending. On the contrary, criminalisation worsens the health and we ... |
| Legal use of cannabis, ecstasy for over-15s backed by state medical body [10.09.2012] | A report by a group of prominent Australians that recommends Australia rethink its criminalisation of illicit drugs has been backed by the Victorian ... |
| After 33 years, I can no longer ignore the evidence on drugs [07.06.2012] | "As a 33-year police practitioner who was commissioner of the Australian Federal Police during the 'tough on drugs' period, I fully understand the co ... |
| Majority relaxed about cannabis use [21.05.2012] | More than half of Australians support reduced legal penalties for use of drugs such as cannabis and ecstasy, an analysis of a federal government surv ... |
| Drugs war 'a failure' that bred criminals [02.04.2012] | Foreign Affairs Minister, Bob Carr, is among a group of prominent Australians who said the ''war on drugs'' is a failure. ''The prohibition of illici ... |
| The Prohibition of Illicit Drugs is Killing and Criminalising our Children [02.04.2012] | It is time to reopen the national debate about drug use, its regulation and control. In June 2011 a prestigious Global Commission stated that the 40- ... |
| The great debate that no one's talking about [03.12.2011] | Scientists, lawyers, police, social workers, doctors and directors of public prosecution are pleading for change but no political party will touch th ... |
| The punishment must fit the crime, even for drug users [02.11.2011] | The case of the Australian boy arrested on drug charges in Bali offers the opportunity to review our nation's own response to drug use, both here and ... |
| Marijuana Legalization [30.06.2010] | A number of other countries have implemented changes in law that significantly reduce the extent of criminalization of marijuana use. Only in Austral ... |
| Randomized controlled trial of dexamphetamine maintenance for the treatment of methamphetamine dependence [18.06.2009] | This study tested the impact of a long-acting form of amphetamine as medication to help control dependent use of the closely allied stimulant, metham ... |
| Trees for Ecstasy [04.02.2009] | Many people believe that ecstasy is merely a synthetic drug that is manufactured solely with chemicals, so-called precursors. However, the main raw m ... |
| Cannabis debate in Australia [04.06.2008] | In Australia a vicious debate on cannabis policy started when Alex Wodak, the head of the Sydney drug and alcohol clinic at St Vincent's Hospital, su ... |
| UN: conflicting views on harm reduction [18.02.2008] | Conflicting views and policies within the UN system on harm reduction have become a major concern. Consistency in messages is crucial especially wher ... |
| Law enforcement and Australia’s 2001 heroin shortage [31.01.2008] | Globally, illicit drug policy is largely based on two central policy objectives. The first is to reduce the demand for illegal drugs mainly through c ... |
| Pot, politics and the press—reflections on cannabis law reform in Western Australia [31.05.2004] | Windows of opportunity for changing drug laws open infrequently and they often close without legislative change being affected. In this paper the aut ... |
| Evaluating alternative cannabis regimes [31.01.2001] | Cannabis is the cutting-edge drug for reform, the only politically plausible candidate for major legal change, at least decriminalisation (re ... |
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