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Diversion Not Decriminalisation – Is The Key To Rehabilitation
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Abstract The evolving crisis of drug addiction and its intersection with the criminal justice system has prompted critical reassessment of punitive legal models. This paper argues that meaningful rehabilitation is best achieved through judicially guided...
New Digital Lessons to Combat Teen Vaping in Schools
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Teen vaping is on the rise. Around the world, 16.8% of young people have already tried e-cigarettes, often starting as early as 14 years old. The risks? Nicotine addiction, lung damage, harmful chemicals, and even...
The Psychedelic Movement in the US: A Risky Experiment?
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The resurgence of psychedelics in the United States has reignited fierce debates about their safety, efficacy, and the ethical concerns surrounding their use in mental health treatment. Once dismissed as dangerous hallucinogens associated with counterculture...
Reducing Substance Abuse Problems: Youth Abstinence Policies are Superior to Harm Reduction Policies.
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SUMMARY: Australian youth harm minimisation drug policies increased substance use and harm and were inferior to American abstinence polices. When Australia adopted abstinence polices, substance use and harm reduced Professor John Toumbourou, Deakin University. View...
HARM REDUCTION – Australia’s Drug Policy Dilemma – Time for Prevention, Demand Reduction, and Recovery
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In what might go down as the most expensive experiment in missing the point, Australia’s decades-long dance with harm reduction policies has produced results that would be laughable if they weren’t so tragic. New data...
Psychiatric risks for worsened mental health after psychedelic use
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Background: Resurgent psychedelic research has largely supported the safety and efficacy of psychedelic therapy for the treatment of various psychiatric disorders. As psychedelic use and therapy increase in prevalence, so does the importance of understanding associated...
Transition to Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder Following Emergency Department Visits Due to Substance Use With and Without Psychosis – Cannabis Tops the List
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Question: What is the risk of developing schizophrenia spectrum disorder following an emergency department (ED) visit caused by substance use with and without psychosis? Findings: In this cohort study of 9.8 million people, individuals with an ED...
The use of psychedelic drugs to treat mental illness is allowed in Australia, but confusion remains.
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Months after Australia found itself at the global forefront of work to treat mental illness using psychedelic substances found in illicit drugs like ecstasy and magic mushrooms, those working in the field say confusion is...
We don’t want to run before we walk
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“We don’t want to run before we walk”: the attitudes of Australian stakeholders towards using psychedelics for mental health conditions Conclusions: Stakeholder representatives and politicians agree that insufficient evidence exists to support the widespread clinical implementation of...
History repeating: A Roadmap to Address Common Problems in Psychedelic Science
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Abstract: Research in the last decade has expressed considerable optimism about the clinical potential of psychedelics for the treatment of mental disorders. This optimism is reflected in an increase in research papers, investments by pharmaceutical...
Psychedelics: The Hype, The Hope, The Harm? – Is the therapeutic potential of hallucinogens risky and overhyped?
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As the medicinal use of psychedelics gains mainstream attention, fears remain over their effect on mental health and the need for safe administration Guardian’s David Cox 19 Aug 2023 In June 2021, 32-year-old actor Kate Hyatt travelled...
Street Drugs – The New Addiction Industry
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‘Street Drugs – The New Addiction Industry’ is a long awaited and vital resource for those who cannot see through the thinly veiled ‘War FOR Drugs’ hiding in plain sight. Elaine Walters OAM is a veteran in the...
Vaping Even More Toxic With Menthol!
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Adding menthol flavoring to electronic cigarettes may damage your lungs more than regular e-cigarettes do, a new study reveals. A number of studies have suggested that e-cigarette vapor can cause lung inflammation, oxidative stress, DNA...
The Ever Increasing Harms of Continuing Drug Use: The addiction crisis is causing a spike in endocarditis cases. Hospitals are struggling to respond
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By Lev Facher Jan. 17, 2023 Increased injection drug use has led to a spike in cases of the life-threatening heart condition endocarditis, with cases rapidly accelerating since the onset of Covid-19.The increased case count is...
Is the Psychedelic Therapy Bubble About to Burst?
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A new paper argues that excitement has veered into misinformation—and scientists should be the ones to set things straight. CONCLUSIONS: On the basis of the change in depression scores on the QIDS-SR-16 at week 6, this...
Expectation, Excitation, Subjectivity, Idiosyncrasy, Placebo, and the Psychedelic Micro-dosing Experiment
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Expectation, Excitation, Subjectivity, Idiosyncrasy, Placebo, and the Psychedelic Micro-dosing Experiment A systematic study of microdosing psychedelics: Taken together these findings paint an intriguing picture. We found clear changes in a small set of psychological variables: decreased...
Exploring the gateway hypothesis of e-cigarettes and tobacco: a prospective replication study among adolescents…
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Start smoking – lead to e-cigarette use! Start vaping – lead to smoking! #quit Conclusion Our study replicated the positive relation between e-cigarette use and tobacco smoking in both directions for adolescents. This may mean that...
E-Cigarettes labelled ‘public health crisis’…
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E-Cigarettes labelled ‘public health crisis’ A damning Research has warned of the “public health crisis”
E-Cigarettes are creating, putting a new generation at risk of a range of illnesses.
(Australian National University)
E-cigarettes do not improve smoking cessation, survey finds
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(And worse still, Our Kids Are Getting Hooked On This Failed Harm Reduction Vehicle) The use of e-cigarettes as a smoking cessation method did not significantly prevent relapse or successful termination, according to survey findings...
Trends in Drug Related Hospitalisations (Aust 1999-2020)
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Trends in Drug Related Hospitalisations (Aust 1999-2020) Cannabinoid Related Hospitalisations – Biggest Increase: In 2019-20, there were 6,427 cannabinoid-related hospitalisations (including cannabis and synthetic cannabinoids), which equates to an age-standardised rate of 26 hospitalisations per...
Major changes in Australian drug use during 2021 says annual Drug Trends reports
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Significant changes include: The per cent reporting any use of cocaine in the past six months increased significantly from 68 per cent in 2020 to 80 per cent in 2021, the highest per cent observed...
Role of Illicit Drug Use in Domestic Violence (Aust)
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Drug involvement at the most recent FDV (Family/Domestic Violence) incident was also associated with over twice the odds of injury and significantly greater negative life impact. The findings that drug use increases both the risk...
Exploring Psychedelic Micro-dosing & the Placebo Effect
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Results of Major Study on Impact of Microdosing Published Researchers from Imperial College London have carried out the largest placebo-controlled trial into psychedelics to date and found that small doses of LSD boost the psychology...
Is Drug Addiction a Brain Disease?
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This popular claim lacks evidence and leads to poor policy. The notion that drug addiction is a brain disease has become axiomatic. Around the globe aspiring health professionals treating substance abuse are indoctrinated with this...
