Articles with category: Media release
May 8 2013
Legal high law almost there
The New Zealand Drug Foundation today made its submission to the Health Select Committee on the Psychoactive Substances Bill saying it was a good bill but there are improvements to be made.
Mar 11 2013
Forty thousand febfast thanks
By pushing pause on booze for February hundreds of New Zealanders have helped raise over $40,000 to support young people with alcohol and other drug problems.
Dec 11 2012
Alcohol Reform Bill: “Meh”
The passing of the Alcohol Reform Bill into law today was met with a resounding “meh” by the New Zealand Drug Foundation.
Sep 13 2012
Response to volatile substance abuse needed
Communities need to be better supported to address the serious issue of volatile substance abuse (VSA), the New Zealand Drug Foundation said today following the release of the Chief Coroner’s report into recent volatile substance deaths.
Jul 16 2012
Dunne slays party pill hydra
New regulations for synthetic drugs announced today will help move New Zealand’s obsolete drug law into the 21st century the New Zealand Drug Foundation said.
May 22 2012
Longer hours, more harm
The Government can still change the Alcohol Reform Bill to address harm caused by long trading hours of alcohol retailers, the New Zealand Drug Foundation said today.
May 14 2012
First FebFast recipients receive FebFast funds
FebFast New Zealand handed over a giant cheque for over $21,000 to Evolve Wellington Youth Service today.
Feb 19 2012
Christopher Kennedy Lawford visiting New Zealand
United Nations Goodwill Ambassador on Drug Dependence, Treatment and Care, Christopher Kennedy Lawford is visiting New Zealand this week to discuss drug addiction and treatment, New Zealand Drug Foundation Executive Director Ross Bell said.
Aug 30 2011
Addiction treatment in New Zealand requires urgent change
Addiction treatment in New Zealand has been seriously underfunded for many decades, National Addiction Centre Director Professor Doug Sellman told a symposium in Wellington today.
Aug 30 2011
Drug treatment policy often misguided says criminology professor
Overcoming problem drug use has much more to do with addressing socio-economic factors than physiological or psychological addiction, a Drug Policy Symposium was told today in Wellington.
Aug 25 2011
Alcohol select committee continues to disappoint communities
The Drug Foundation today expressed surprise that the Justice and Electoral Committee recommended only tinkering to the Alcohol Reform Bill, saying that many thousands of submitters had expected much greater improvements to the Bill.
Jul 14 2011
No time for alcohol law reform delays
The Justice and Electoral Select Committee is still deliberating on the Alcohol Reform Bill. They say it’s proving and enormous challenge and the deadline for reporting back to Parliament has been pushed out from June until the end of Augus