UNODC – Key Findings and Conclusions Drug use has been increasing over the past decade. New and more accurate data put the global estimate of people who used a drug in the past year at 292 million (or 5.6 per cent of the population aged 15 to 64) in 2022. This is 20 % more […]
World Drug Report: 2024 Read More »
The 2024 United Nations World Day Against Illicit Drugs & Trafficking theme is “The evidence is clear: invest in prevention”. The internationally backed Declaration of Oviedo assiduously affirms that prevention must be the priority for our communities. This Asia-Pacific hearing saw commentaries from regional voices on the absolute need for prevention and demand reduction. Read the Report and
Asia-Pacific Prevention Hearing 2024 – The Declaration of Oviedo Read More »
Does the drug policy interpretation and implementation, reduce, remediate or facilitate recovery from substance use, or does it endorse, enable, equip or empower continuing drug use? Drug USE, the very thing that causes #harm. Every ‘permission model’ harnessed by pro-drug actors to further entrench the normalisation of drug use is only ADDING to potential harms. The
Pill ‘CHECKING’ sold again on the cynically misused mantra of ‘saving lives’. Read More »
A Prescription Model for Vapes: The way we ‘do’ medicines policy in Australia Abstract: On 2 May 2023, the Australian Federal Government announced a suite of reforms aimed at ensuring the effectiveness of the prescription model of regulation of vaping (or e-cigarette) products in Australia. These reforms are intended to protect Australians, particularly young people, from
New Vaping Regulations – Doing it Correctly – Not Punishing Product Read More »
Harm Reduction is the final last-ditch pillar in the Australian National Drug Strategy. Its intent was to create strategies to assist those caught in the tyranny of addiction to stay alive whilst they exit drug use. Intent and implementation can often be two different things, it depends on who is interpreting and overseeing the policy vehicle.
How Harm Reduction Works in Australia Read More »
China’s Role in Synthetic Opioid Trafficking: Efforts to Reduce the Supply of Precursor Chemicals at the Primary Source. [Ever since the ‘Opium Wars’, (https://youtu.be/7UScdK82aAo?list=PLTMqlfT-1C1x7ekCSxIhF6HMjHBqMAK6n&t=8) when opium was not only legalised and commercialised on a global scale, but actually became currency; the Chinese people have not forgotten the exploitation they experienced at the hands of the ‘West’.
China’s Role in Synthetic Opioid Trafficking Read More »
With a growing voice for greater permission for illicit substance use in some cultures and entrenched addiction for profit industries like Big Alcohol and Big Cannabis, where should the policy priorities lie? View PDF
Substance Use & Family Violence: ‘Permission’ Policies vs the Rights of the Child Read More »
Resiliency, Substance Use & Sustainable Development Goals – A brief overview of impacts of AOD on no less than 14 of the 17 stated S.D.G’s and the imperative of building and sustaining resilient communities. View PDF
Resiliency, Substance Use & Sustainable Development Goals Read More »
Sagely Speaking PODCAST| Guest: Harvard Medical Dr. Bertha Madras – Psychedelics, Cannabis & Rescheduling
Legislation is Rushing Ahead of Science, and the Alarm Bells are Ringing Read More »
No mention of preventing drug use engagement. No mention of active drug use exiting recovery. No real mention of rehabilitation processes. No mention of ongoing unaccountable harms generated by ‘normalised’ substance use narratives. However, we do have more mechanisms being added to seemingly continue ongoing substance use. Whilst Opioid SubsttuteTreatments (OST) have validity, without a
Victorian Government’s Statewide Action Plan To Save Lives And Reduce Drug Harm, Or….? Read More »
