Dec 14 2015
Kiwis join drug policy hui in Washington, November 2015
A delegation of Drug Foundation staff joined 1500 other people from 70 countries at the 2015 International Drug Policy Reform Conference, held 18 to 21 November 2015 in Washington DC.
Dec 4 2015
Five wonderful years of FebFast NZ
The Drug Foundation has reluctantly decided FebFast New Zealand will not be run again.
Nov 27 2015
2015 in review
At the 2015 Annual General Meeting we looked back at the Drug Foundation’s work over the last twelve months, and ahead to the big challenges for 2016.
Mythbusters: Yeast spreads can be used for brewing alcohol
Is Vegemite - a true blue Aussie spread - being used to make homebrew alcohol in remote Aboriginal communities?
About a drug: powdered alcohol
We may not have heard much about it before, but powdered alcohol (just add water) is nothing new.
Q&A: Nobody suffers like the families
Julian McMahon is an Australian barrister practising criminal law, who represented Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, the 'Bali 9' pair who were executed in Indonesia earlier this year on drugs charges.
Guest editorial: Treatment as prevention? How about prevention as prevention?!
The priority for stopping the spread of hepatitis C should be on early prevention, argues Charles Henderson, National Manager of NZ's Needle Exchange Programme.
Viewpoints: Is the jury still out on e-cigarettes?
Short of a pill that will magically take addiction away, are e-cigarettes the best smoking cessation device since the humble patch?
Opinion: A nation in denial?
It’s coming on Christmas, and with it, will come the usual increase in alcohol and other substance-induced family violence. Being good Kiwis, though, it’s something we won’t talk about.