Xylazine, or tranq, is increasingly being mixed with drugs like fentanyl or heroin and can be difficult to detect. Most people who use drugs are unable to tell if they have been exposed to it.
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Judy Ryan’s book describes, in meticulous detail, what it took for the Victorian government to trial the state’s first safe injecting facility, through the lens of a local Richmond resident.
Photographing the lives of women meth users in rural America.
As British Columbia begins a new era in drug policy, the drug poisoning crisis continues without an end in sight.
Supervised consumption sites provide essential community connections and services for those who use them. By closing them, governments are risking the welfare of people who use drugs.
If governments want to tackle drug use, targeting those at most risk is a better strategy than mass campaigns.
Research has long shown that criminalising otherwise law-abiding citizens for their drug use is no deterrent. It only damages their life chances, in a discriminatory fashion.
More than 50 overdoses happen in bathrooms every month in British Columbia. Public bathrooms can be made safer for everyone, including people who use substances.
The UK could learn from the kind of action Scotland is taking on drug deaths.
Current supply shortages may also be a problem for people in palliative care or receiving cancer treatment.
British Columbia’s bold experiment provides an opportunity to implement more balance in Canadian drug policy, and a more principled withdrawal from the war on drugs.
The eyes can reveal many health problems, from high cholesterol to thyroid disease.
Euphoria tackles the status quo head on with an esthetic that transgresses the codes of television, while criticizing several taboos and social issues.
Kava is not commonly used in Australia. But that will change and we need to keep an eye on what happens next.
On the surface, sober months like Dry January and Dry February are great. But we need to broaden the discussion around how privilege and policy impact one’s relationship with alcohol and other drugs.
Our results suggest police location groups and pages on Facebook are helping drivers avoid detection for drug driving - with potentially fatal consequences.
Here’s what the Australian Federal Police’s new campaign gets wrong.
In their quest to feel high and relax, college students who use marijuana may be setting themselves back, research consistently shows.
A recent report outlines how the government can reduce the harm caused by the illicit drug trade.
New research confirms that unfair police treatment is psychologically damaging and that the consequences are decidedly worse for certain racial and ethnic groups.
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Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne), Curtin University
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Honorary Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
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Associate Lecturer, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer of Addiction, Edith Cowan University
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Associate professor, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor, Mental Health and Addiction, Rural Health Research Institute, Charles Sturt University
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Vice Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow, Social and Global Studies Centre and Digital Ethnography Research Centre, RMIT University
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Emeritus Professor, The National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University
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Professor and Deputy Director, Monash Addiction Research Centre, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer, Centre for Rural Criminology, HASSE, University of New England & Visiting Fellow, Drug Policy Modelling Program, SPRC, University of New South Wales, University of New England
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Professor in Substance Use, Liverpool John Moores University
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PhD Candidate, School of Nursing, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor, Public Health, Monash University
