Articles with category: Article
Opinion: Telling it like it is
Our Board Chairman Tuari Potiki told the United Nations General Assembly that indigenous voices must be part of the drug policy debate.
The snowball and the avalanche: medical cannabis in Australia
Stories of personal suffering are appearing more frequently in the Australian news, and that's paved the way for medical cannabis. Andrew McMillen reports on what's happening over the ditch.
To test or not to test
Drug testing in schools is rejected by some and embraced by others. So what is the score, asks Naomi Arnold.
Where are we at with alcohol reform?
It's been 4 years since new liquor laws passed. They were supposed to reduce problematic consumption of alcohol without impinging on responsible drinkers, have they been successful?
Mythbusters: Is P lurking behind New Zealand's picket white fences?
A growing number of property owners and potential buyers are testing houses for methamphetamine contamination. Mythbusters investigates whether the concern is justified.
Q&A: Greg O'Connor
Greg O'Connor has seen a lot of change since he was elected President of the NZ Police Association.
Speaking of drugs, eradication and development
Eradication attacks on Colombian drug crops have been hailed by many (including the White House) as a success. David Young looks at the local cost.
UNGASS 2016: What prospect for change?
NGOs closest to the UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on the world drug problem in April aren't expecting big change, but they see things moving in the right direction.
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.