Articles with category: Article
Q&A: Lizzie McMillan-Makalio
Trained social worker Lizzie McMillan-Makalio is manager Wesley Community Action-Waitangirua, where six community services are run.
How Duterte’s drug war taps into the Philippines’ zeitgeist
The violence and mayhem of the War on Drugs in the Philippines shows no sign of abating. Mark R Thompson outlines what has been happening and the historical backdrop.
Viewpoints: Is it okay for NZ Police to interpret drug laws
The majority of New Zealanders support change to our cannabis laws, but the political appetite is low. A drop in prosecutions for cannabis offences points to a silent relaxation of drug policy.
Hepatitis C – new hope on the horizon
Pharmac has recently started funding new drugs that have amazing curative effects for more than half of people in New Zealand with hepatitis C.
There’s something wrong with the sentences
Under the irrelevant and outdated Misuse of Drugs Act, cannabis penalties and convictions in NZ remain inconsistent, disproportionate, unjust and largely ineffective, especially for Māori.
Gangs trial new ways
The focus and reputations of some of New Zealand’s infamous ethnic street gangs seem to be changing. Keri Welham reports.
Q&A: Gilbert Taurua
In May 2016, Gilbert Taurua joined the Drug Foundation to lead a new area of work promoting better drug laws for Māori.
Guest editorial: Complexities and challenges - NZ's Drug Harm Index 2016
Drug harm indexes are complicated methodological tools used to analyse and measure harms resulting from the complicated and complex practice that is drug use.
Viewpoints: A price too far?
In this edition, Viewpoints looks at whether tax increases are an effective public heath tool to reduce tobacco consumption and finds the answer is yes and no – it depends on your perspective.
Veronal: who remembers veronal?
Redmer Yska delves into the dramatic side effects of a once-popular barbiturate.
Breaking the ice- how we will get through Australia's methamphetamine crisis
Worried that parents were getting misinformation about out-of-control methamphetamine use in Australia, Matt Noffs wrote a book to reassure people not to panic.
Portugal: putting health and welfare at the centre of drug policy
With solid evidence showing punitive approaches to drugs do not work, the question that arises is what to do instead? In this first instalment of a Matters of Substance series on innovative drug policies in different countries, we look at P