Articles with category: Article
Viewpoints: Should you give your teenager alcohol?
Viewpoints asks if you should provide alcohol to your teenage child. Is it just adopting mediterranean attitude toward alcohol or could you be harming their developing brain?
Don't hesitate
Why do some people hesitate to call for help in a life-and-death situation? Elle Hunt investigates emergency responses to overdoses in New Zealand.
About a drug: MDMA
In 1914, a clever scientist working for the German pharmaceutical company Merck created and patented the MDMA molecule. The first recorded human ingestion of MDMA wasn’t until the 1970s
Mythbusters: Cannabis 20 times more carcinogenic than tobacco?
The British Lung Foundation has claimed that smoking a cannabis cigarette is up to 20 times more likely to give you lung cancer than smoking a tobacco cigarette. Is the evidence there to back them up?
Reducing drug harm in Fiji
It may be an island paradise, but Fiji has its fair share of drug-related woes. Jacob Quinn looks at some local harm-reduction initiatives.
Opinion: The frustrating politics of drug reform
Home and abroad, even politicians favouring reform eventually reach an end to what they’re willing to say about the war on drugs. Russell Brown suggests public opinion may in fact be moving on.
Wet in Wellington
Rob Zorn talks to Downtown Community Ministry about the plight of Wellington’s addicted and homeless and why ‘housing first’ is an essential first step towards treatment.
Mythbusters: Is cannabis legal in the Netherlands?
Mythbusters takes a closer look at the nuanced drug policy of the Netherlands.
After 'The Wire'
Popular TV show The Wire is a disturbingly realistic portrayal of an American city ravaged by violence, corruption and a thriving drugs trade. Hamish McKenzie looks at where Balitmore is now.
Mythbusters: Is meth really all that bad for you?
Columbia University recently published a study on the effects of methamphetamine use. It not only questioned received wisdom about the damaging effects the drug has on the brain, it also suggested meth could actually improve some brain fun
The little community clinic that could
A formal evaluation suggests the Christchurch Hepatitis C Community Clinic has a thing or two to show the world.
Mythbusters - Death by withdrawal
Can a person chronically dependent on alcohol really die if they abruptly stop drinking? Or is this just another clever excuse not to part with their drug of choice?