The Government’s response to synthetic drug deaths is welcomed by the Drug Foundation. This is an important step towards treating drug use as a health issue.
Legal access to safe and affordable medicinal cannabis is a good thing for patients and carers. We remain critical about parts of the law, but it is progress.
Recommendation for government action on alcohol and other drugs, including removing criminal sanctions for personal drug use and providing a broader range of health interventions instead, are welcomed.
Gaps in access to addiction treatment have prompted 30 organisations to issue an open letter to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
Useful changes to the government’s medicinal cannabis bill were announced today, but the Drug Foundation says many patients will be disappointed.
An new international indigenous network for drug law reform was launched on 27 November at Healing Our Spirit Worldwide – The Eighth Gathering, in Sydney, Australia.
A petition calling on the Prime Minister to back up her call to treat drug use as a health issue is live now. Please sign!
A one day course exploring what it means to put in place a public health approach to drugs, and how do we get there. Wellington, 26 February 2019.
After a year of work behind the scenes, Living Sober is relaunching with a whole new look and feel.