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.
Opinion: Drugs and Development: The Real Threat
Ann Fordham argues that the UN may be its own worst enemy in addressing global drug and crime links.
A Slug of the Drug
What's to be done about caffeine and alcohol mixed beverages, the popular poly-drug choice of the recently post-pubescent?
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?
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.