Sep 29 2015
Steer Clear wins health improvement award
The team behind the Steer Clear road safety campaign received a Ko Awatea 2015 International Excellence in Health Improvement Award in Auckland on 24 September 2015.
Sep 18 2015
New Zealand Government must step up efforts to end the death penalty
Australian death penalty experts to visit New Zealand – Monday 21 September 2015
Aug 31 2015
International Overdose Awareness Day: Guest Blog
Every week a New Zealander dies of an overdose. Sadly, many of these deaths are entirely preventable, but the stigma surrounding injecting drug use has so far prevented us from taking action.
Aug 31 2015
New Zealand needs to do more to tackle overdose problem
Nearly every week in New Zealand a person dies from an opioid overdose. If you're not aware of our overdose problem, you're not alone - we don't like to talk openly about intravenous drug use in Aotearoa.
The UNGASS 2016 primer
The next UNGASS on drugs has been brought forward from 2019 to 2016. That's still a year away, but at a UN level, this amounts to blistering urgency.
Mythbusters: It sounds too much
Estimated values of seized drugs can be mind-bogglingly huge. But are these estimates accurate reflections of the likely street value?
About a drug: Alpha-PVP
Alpha-pyrrolidinovalerophenone is one of a number of recreational drugs in the 'bath salts' (cathinones) family, so called because they resemble bath salts and have sometimes been sold disguised as such.
Q&A: Toni-Marie Matich
Toni-Marie Matich is the co-founder of the NZ branch of United in Compassion, set up to advocate for the introduction of medicinal cannabis.
Guest editorial: Alcohol advertising: what's the problem?
While advertising of alcohol keeps spreading and spreading, the industry denies this leads to more harms. The evidence says otherwise.