WHO Mental Health Action Plan 2030 – Dalgarno Institute
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Australia to ban non-prescription vapes in biggest smoking reforms in a decade
Quality standards to be introduced to tackle youth vaping, including restricting flavours, colours and other ingredients The Australian government will ban the importation of nonprescription vaping products – including those that do not contain nicotine – in the most significant tobacco and vaping control measures in the country in a decade.To tackle youth vaping, minimum
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How the former ‘heroin capital of Europe’ decriminalised drugs
How the former ‘heroin capital of Europe’ decriminalised drugs (Winning the War on Drugs?)| SBS DatelineThe How is not the issue – that’s easy. What has it achieved and why are key public figures wanting things to change? Portugal Mayor Supports Recriminalizing Public Drug UseSome points one may miss in the ‘showcase of progress’ that isn’t? Treatment
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The ‘Unleashing’ Of Domestic, Familial & Intimate Partner Violence – The Drug Factor.
“If we are going to say ‘NO’ to violence against women – and we must – then we cannot say ‘Yes’ to drug use!” Dalgarno Institute “Continuing acceptance and normalisation of drug using behaviours by the culture, whether overt promotion of products or the libertarian pursuit of individual ‘rights’, the acceptance of psychotropic toxins in
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W.F.A.D: Open Letter to Reassure Human Rights are being adhered to in a fast-changing environment – Pleading for safety, health, well-being, and dignity
Excerpt: It is also imperative that the responsibility and capacity of all human beings is fortified in developing and protecting the right to best-practice health care and is not enabled, equipped, or empowered to undermine good, physical, and psycho-social health. Thus, it is important to note that the human right to freedom is strengthened by focusing
Legalizing Harm – Why Legalizing Cannabis is a Huge Public Health and Well-being Misstep
Okay, so what well-worn narrative is being parroted on this latest ‘let’s legalise cannabis’ campaign? • Still leading with the ‘War Against Drugs Has Failed’ mantra?• Is it, ‘thousands are incarcerated for simply blazing a spliff’?• Or the newer tune on the playlist. ‘all the money that will be saved by not having to enforce anti-drug laws’?• And is the refrain still ‘everyone
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Problematic Psychedelics – Prescribing Harm? Researchers Warn of Major Threats to the Validity of Psychedelic Research
Warning of “history repeating,” researchers list ten problems with psychedelic research that make conclusions about efficacy and safety uncertain.March 20, 2023 Drugs like ketamine, psilocybin (mushrooms), LSD, and MDMA are at the forefront of a new wave of overhyped treatments for mental health problems that may fail to deliver on their promises, according to a new article
Lobbying For Medicine – Around We Go Again (This Time It’s Psychedelics)
First TGA gives non-clinically trialled or fully vetted cannabis ‘medicines’ a short cut, now they just give a pass to Psilocybine, because this drug users group demand it – Science and Evidence be Damned? “Members agreed that there was little additional evidence presented in this application … As such, the main barrier to down-scheduling psilocybine
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Australia has a vaping problem, but no easy health or political solution – Or is there?
Regardless of the purported opinions and postures around the failing harm reduction ‘vehicle’ that is e-cigarettes, our children’s health, well-being and future should be the priority; motivating the political will to push the QUIT and PREVENTION mandates and mantras in all key Education, Legal and Social arenas. The following excerpt from a recent ABC article is the
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