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24.01.2022 Event next week: Meet Manuel Cardoso, the man who reformed Portugal's drug policy

24.01.2022 Pill testing, also known as drug checking, is a service that provides people with information about the content of illicit substances. The idea is that individuals armed with more knowledge about drug composition and purity are able to make more informed decisions when it comes to drug taking. Despite concern about pill testing increasing the appeal of illicit substances, research shows it can lead to less drug taking, and help people consume drugs in a safer way.

24.01.2022 As police admit to losing battle, Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation president Alex Wodak calls for ice ingestion rooms

23.01.2022 The decision to ban cannabis was an accident of history...

19.01.2022 Dr Alex Wodak, president of the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation, says if the government had consulted experts before unveiling their plan to drug test welfare recipients, they would have been advised to drop it immediately. First up, alcohol and drug use plays a minuscule role in unemployment and underemployment, says Dr Wodak, who played a huge role in getting needle syringe programs started in Australia in the 1980s. People are locked out of paid work because there... is only one job available for every 17 job seekers in this country, according to the Australian Unemployed Workers Union. It’s even worse than that for our young people and those living in regional centres. And for the small number of people who are unable to hold down work due to alcohol and drug problems (unemployed Australians use drugs at a much lower rate than employed Australians), stripping away their income support will do nothing but push them even further into the margins of society, says Dr Wodak.

18.01.2022 The Victorian government has approved a two-year trial of a safe injecting room in North Richmond in the wake of a reported increase in heroin-related deaths in the Melbourne suburb. It will be the second safe injecting room in Australia after the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre in Kings Cross, which was established in 2001 and saw an 80% reduction in ambulance call-outs over 10 years. The premier, Daniel Andrews, announced the trial alongside the housing and mental health minister, Martin Foley, on Tuesday, reversing his government’s former opposition to injecting rooms in favour of a harm minimisation approach.

17.01.2022 Help celebrate the best year yet for drug law reform in Australia with ADLRF! The Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation invites you to a dinner to celebrate the most successful year yet in efforts to reform Australia’s drug policies. We want you to hear Senator Larry Campbell from Canada. Former member of the Drug Squad, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, former Coroner then Mayor of Vancouver. Senator Campbell was Mayor when Insite was opened, Canada’s first Medically Supervised... Injecting Centre. Other speakers include Senator Richard Di Natale, The Hon. Adam Searle MLC, Leader of the Opposition in NSW Legislative Council, Dr. Ingrid van Beek and former NZ Minister, The Hon. Peter Dunne MP. Brooke Boney will be the MC. Tickets can be purchased through the Eventbrite link on the event page. We look forward to seeing you there! :)

16.01.2022 Watch this 360 video to discover more about these life-saving facilities, and step into Canada’s first and the world’s busiest supervised drug-injection site.

14.01.2022 There are new calls for ecstacy to be regulated and sold in chemists. Is this a good idea? #9Today

14.01.2022 40 prominent Australian experts that have endorsed the Harm Reduction Australia and Australia Drug Law Reform Foundation call for Australia to provide heroin assisted treatment. This is a treatment program that has shown success in breaking the vicious cycle of poor health, poverty and crime among people with long histories of problems from using heroin. As all the signatories have emphasised, the success of this treatment in helping people who have not benefited from all our other existing treatment options, can no longer be ignored.

13.01.2022 I support calls from sixty music industry, health and safety organisations and individuals calling for the Premier's expert panel on music festival safety to include a music industry representative.

12.01.2022 Victoria's once hard-line conservative premier Jeff Kennett says he has "come a long way" on drug policy since he was in office in the 1990s.

10.01.2022 Congratulations Dr Marianne Jauncey!!

10.01.2022 Few government policies are as poorly understood and relentlessly resisted as the harm reduction approach to illicit drugs, which is why the ACT government is to be congratulated for its approach. While it has rejected a proposal to allow pill testing at Canberra’s Groovin’ the Moo festival in May, it has left open the possibility for a trial to take place at the Spilt Milk youth music dance event in the ACT in December 2017. If it happens, this will be a first for Australia, although about 20 other countries now allow pill testing some having done so for almost 20 years.

09.01.2022 Had the government consulted experts before unveiling their plan to drug test welfare recipients, they would have been advised to drop it pronto

08.01.2022 Free! A brilliant opportunity to hear Sir Richard Branson and other harm reduction advocates in Sydney Oct 12. Drug-induced deaths have hit their highest number... in 20 years and 200,000 Australians are unable to get the treatment they need each year. Now is the time for meaningful and effective drug policy reform. http://www.fairtreatment.org/

06.01.2022 Bob Carr, Jeff Kennett and former police commissioners release reform blueprint based on treating drug use as a health issue rather than a legal one

04.01.2022 NSW Labor have called on the Government to host a Drug Summit to listen to the experts.

02.01.2022 Legalising cannabis is something that is well within the jurisdiction of states and territories - Greg Barnes, national president of the Australian Lawyers Alliance.