Articles with category: Article
Constant pressure
Addiction treatment experts and providers call for law reform, funding and focus on workforce development - OLIVER LEWIS reports.
Way forward charted at Tūturu Summit
The Drug Foundation has launched a school-based project aiming to change the way schools approach drugs and alcohol. John McRae attended the Wellington Summit this February.
Q&A: David Hanna
David Hanna is the Director of Wesley Community Action and a champion of community-led solutions including ‘P’ Pull, which grew out of Waitangarua and is now a national movement. We asked him a few questions.
Science Advisor lays down facts on referendum
A new report from the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor makes key findings supporting the Drug Foundation’s view that legalisation is the best public health response to cannabis use in Aotearoa.
New campaign spurs drinking rethink
During lockdown, the Drug Foundation launched the successful Best Bubble campaign encouraging Kiwis to re-evaluate their relationship with alcohol.
A crucial new harm-reduction tool for New Zealand
A new online harm-reduction tool has been rolled out by Police, Customs and the Ministry of Health, with help from the Drug Foundation
Growing pains: How cannabis impacts pain relief
Dr Bronwyn Thompson says patients will benefit from cannabis legalisation, even with studies on using the drug for pain management yet to come in.
Balancing harm
A recent move to make “poppers” prescription only has led to a backlash from within New Zealand’s gay community
The sky didn't fall
Attitudes about cannabis use are changing as legalisation brings more education opportunities and fears about drug harm fade.
The wine o'clock myth
Sobriety advocate and author Lotta Dann talks to Ruth Nichol about her new book, how the alcohol industry specifically targets women, and why that matters.
Stigma, drug use and welfare in the time of Covid
It’s up to us, the public, to make sure the government looks after our most vulnerable in a recession, writes activist and former Greens MP Sue Bradford.
What we've learned from a crisis
Lockdown and the continued impacts of the coronavirus have already changed the way the addiction sector operates. What lessons has the sector learned from the crisis so far?