Articles with category: Article
Not what your mum and dad smoked?
Anecdotes abound comparing the mellow weed of the old days with the edgier dope of today. Has cannabis become more potent since the 70s? Rob Zorn ask whether this is so and what implications potent pot might have.
No longer the healthy option
20 years on from the New Zealand Drug Foundation’s first cannabis and health conference, Keri Welham takes a look at Aotearoa’s most widely used illegal drug to see what has changed since 1993.
About a drug: Heroin
The most infamous member of the opiod family.
Q&A: Kathryn Leafe
CareNZ's new boss talks to Matters of Substance about how she's gone from running treatement centres in prisons, to running the Soweto marathon.
Mythbusters: New Zealand has the highest drug use in the world
Do we really? Or is it just that our bean counters are better at counting beans than others. Find out!
Viewpoints: Addiction is an equal opportunity disease
Can anyone develop an addiction? Viewpoints discusses.
Opinion: Hurt people hurt people
Young people are often on the fringe of policy discourse, but JustSpeak, a youth-led organisation, has forged a strong voice on justice and corrections issues.
A small triumph
Thinking and talking about addiction recovery and drug policy is hard in a media that saturates us with stigma-laden messages. But some publications are talking about sensible solutions.
The Retreat
Utilising a ground-breaking residential treatment model developed in the US, The Retreat harnesses the will and experience of volunteers from the recovery community.
Psychoactive Substances Act 101
A world-leading piece of legislation has been passed in New Zealand to regulate new psychoactive substances. What is it all about, how does it work, and where do we go from here?
Turning tide on compulsory treatment
Slave labour. Torture. Forced medical research. It reads like some bleak, distant history – but it’s the contemporary reality for government drug treatment in East and Southeast Asia.
Needles and NIMBYs
The cry “Not in my back yard!” is often heard when communities are confronted by a social solution they don’t fully understand.