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With use of drugs such as ice on the rise, drug consumption rooms are now being set up in Europe to provide supervised inhalation.
All Australian government-funded construction sites now require contractors to have a comprehensive fitness for work policy that includes mandatory drug and alcohol testing.
To tackle the ice problem, the government must learn from experience and avoid adopting a blinkered law enforcement approach.
The ice taskforce’s report sends a clear message about the importance of focusing on drug use as a health issue. This signals an important shift in thinking.
Many untested drug therapies are expensive at best and potentially dangerous at worst. So what treatments do work for ice and other drug users?
HIV is still a major public health issue among the most at-risk groups, and efforts to tackle it need to get smarter.
Are addicts sick and helpless victims with little control over their own behaviour, or brazen criminals who deserve to be punished accordingly?
There’s a worrying lack of evidence for what works when it comes to drug treatment. And our addiction services are suffering as a result.
Indonesia’s war on drugs aims to protect the country’s young generation from an alleged “national drug emergency.” But the government’s coercive approach is harming the people it wishes to protect.
New research aims to bring hope to the often forgotten or stigmatised friends and relatives of those who die from drug or alcohol use.
The government’s “blanket ban” on legal highs goes against the evidence.
Our drugs policy expert sheds some light on the Liberal Democrats’ radical new proposals.
Ideas about drug use that are used to justify the death penalty for smuggling don’t hold up under scrutiny.
Irvine Welsh’s 1993 novel Trainspotting tells the fictional story of a group of disaffected, heroin-addicted young men (and one violent drunk) in Leith, Edinburgh, and the gritty, dirty, terrifying – and…
Two different sets of statistics on Scottish illegal drug use have been published in the past few days – the Scottish drug misuse database (SDMD) on initial assessments for specialist drug treatment; and…
Hepatitis C is a hidden epidemic affecting 170 million people worldwide. Hepatitis C kills nearly 700 Australians every year, mostly from chronic liver failure and liver cancer, and costs over $78.9 million…
If you’ve listened to the news lately, you might think that Australia is overrun with uncontrollably violent people on crystal methamphetamine. This may be true of those in crisis, but the bigger picture…
Alcohol and substance abuse costs the Australian economy A$24.5bn a year. The human toll from accidents, overdoses, chronic disease, violence, mental illness and family disruption, however, is immeasurable…
Public attitudes towards drugs are shaped by many things, including high-profile celebrity encounters with drugs and addiction. One unfortunate example of this involves popular Canadian actor Cory Monteith…
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Adjunct Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne based), Curtin University
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Honorary Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
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Lecturer, RMIT 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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Senior Lecturer of Addiction, Edith Cowan University
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, UNSW Sydney
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Emeritus Professor, The National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research, The University of Queensland
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Vice Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow, Social Equity Research Centre and Digital Ethnography Research Centre, RMIT University
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PhD Candidate, School of Nursing, University of British Columbia
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Alcohol and other drug specialist, University of New South Wales &, University of New England
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Associate Professor, Public Health, Monash University
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Professor and Deputy Director, Monash Addiction Research Centre, Monash University
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Professor in Substance Use, Liverpool John Moores University
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Professor, National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University
