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Parents can help protect their kids from cannabis abuse by openly discussing the health risks, the pleasures and the responsible ways to use the drug.
Most of the evidence drawn on by critics of the trial comes from places that have implemented such programs. So, have they worked?
Drug deaths in Scotland are now among the highest in Europe. What can be done?
Social Services Minister Christian Porter told Q&A that 'rates of drug use amongst unemployed are 2.5 times higher than amongst employed people'. Is that correct?
No wonder we're addicted to junk food. Neuroscience shows food packaging affects our enjoyment of these foods, and plays on the same brain processes as hard drug addiction.
West Australian Labor leader Mark McGowan said his state has the "worst rate of methamphetamine usage in the country". We asked the experts to check the evidence.
Drug use is down – but that's a long way from the whole story.
Thousands of Australians go to residential drug and alcohol rehab programs every year. But is there evidence rehabs, as well as the group therapy they often rely on, actually work?
A public health programme respected locally, lauded globally, and based on the best science for helping homeless crack users, is at risk of falling victim to Brazil's partisan politics.
Some think labelling it a disease is a helpful way to think about addiction; others think this makes the addict helpless in their fight against addiction. Two academics debate both sides of the coin.
The FDA just approved a new implant of a drug that treats opioid addiction. Why hasn't the drug been prescribed more widely already?
What exactly is addiction? What role, if any, does choice play? And if addiction involves choice, how can we call it a "brain disease," with its implications of involuntariness?
It's not just energy-hungry pot farms: the ties between energy and drugs run deep. Can we develop a national drug policy drawing on the lessons of the domestic oil and gas boom?
We don't know enough about the people who use painkillers non-medically to make the judgement that there is a natural transition from legal to illicit drug use.
Changing drugs laws can have some very unexpected consequences.
Hoping to avoid the pitfalls and tropes of drug genre photography, documentary photographer Aaron Goodman spent a year following three addicts enrolled in a heroin-assisted treatment program.
Be careful: many of us have tried at least two of them.
With use of drugs such as ice on the rise, drug consumption rooms are now being set up in Europe to provide supervised inhalation.
Why have the demographics of heroin use changed so much? For that, we can look to dramatic increase in prescriptions for opioid painkillers, such as Oxycontin or Vicodin.
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Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne), Curtin University
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Hon. Professor Drug Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Associate Professor of Addiction, University of York
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Associate Professor of Population Health, New York University Langone Medical Center
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Professor of Population Health Science, University of Dundee
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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Peter Whiteford is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Research Fellow, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW
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Emeritus Consultant, St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst
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Senior Research Fellow, Monash University
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Chair Professor, Australian National University
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Professor of Criminology, Western Sydney University
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Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Birmingham
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Associate professor, La Trobe University
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Professor, National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University
