Articles with category: Article
What can we learn from Canberra decriminalising drug possession?
Commentator Russell Brown takes a look at the ACT's road to decriminalising drug possession, and asks what New Zealand could learn.
Street value: The Dutch MDMA pop-up shop sparking conversations about drugs
Drug Foundation Communications Advisor Feilidh Dwyer visits a thought-provoking MDMA pop-up shop in Utrecht.
Updating the narrative: findings from a new methamphetamine report
Today, the Drug Foundation and the Helen Clark Foundation released a new paper: Minimising the Harms from Methamphetamine. The Drug Foundation's Executive Director, Sarah Helm, breaks down the findings.
New drug-driving law ignores science, targets poor
Chris Fowlie takes a look at who will be most affected by New Zealand's new drug driving laws, and how.
Drug checking: It feels illegal, but it's not
Some people are still mistrustful about the legal status of drug checking. We asked Leah Rothman to clear up some of the confusion.
Who gets a conviction for drug possession, and who gets help?
Policy & advocacy manager Kali Mercier takes a look at new drug prosecution stats to see who is being impacted - and is it working?
A first timer's take on the world of global drug policy
Jai Whelan, founding member and secretary of Students for Sensible Drug Policy Aotearoa, reflects on the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs.
More than 250,000 Kiwis still accessing medicinal cannabis through black market
Only a tiny percentage of NZers who use cannabis for medicinal purposes are accessing the product through legal channels, new analysis by the NZ Drug Foundation shows.
The global cannabis policy being developed behind closed doors
In 2019, the WHO made a historic recommendation: that cannabis should be rescheduled in the UN global drug treaties to reflect its potential as a medicine. Since then, civil society groups have been shut out of the process
Q&A: How Moana House achieved 100% Covid vaccination
With such low rates of vaccination among tangata whaiora, we asked Claire Aitken how Moana House managed to turn that around.
In pursuit of 90%, we must leave no one behind
People using drugs are at greater risk from Covid-19, and they are the least-vaccinated. We need to reach them through the organisations they trust.
Overdose prevention: A walk in the park?
Free naloxone kits, fee training, oranges to practice on – and a barbecue lunch. That's how they do overdose prevention in British Columbia.