Drugs
How Decriminalising Drugs Might Save Lives
A Coroner’s report released today has proposed reforms to how Victoria handles illicit drug crimes, such as amnesty zones, pill-testing......
Marketing spin undermines ‘evidence based’ medicine
The power money and control of Big Pharma over research, medical journals, university funding and doctors has tainted pure scientific......
Australian Paramedics Facing High Rates Of Violence
Paramedics suffer the most violent cases of any emergency response services in Australia, despite their highly significant role to protect......
Cannabis use during pregnancy linked to poorer neonatal morbidity and death for babies
A team of researchers from the Robinson Research Institute at the University of Adelaide have published a study which looks......
New Research Calls For Western Sydney Injecting Room
A new article has been published in the Current Issues in Criminal Justice Journal, revealing that Sydney needs a second......
Prescription Opioid Abuse on the Increase in Australia
Crimes related to prescription medicines such as Fentanal, Oxycontin and Xanax are increasing. There is concern that a growing black......
Cashless Welfare Card privatised
Apart from the post-code sentencing of people to a cashless card (and indigenous people are again over represented), we now......
Experts warn of displacement for older Australians overindulging on alcohol and illicit drugs
This afternoon three experts from the National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction at Flinders University presented its report......
We get it, you vape. But perhaps we need to regulate the vape?
The USA has reported the first ever vaping related death, and this is alongside a flurry of vaping related hospitalisations.......
Calls to amend NSW’s strip-search laws
The University of New South Wales (UNSW) and Redfern Legal Centre have launched the first report of its kind in......