Search results for: “what is harm minimisation”

  • Australian Festival Association launches, aims to unify strategies and make events safer

    “We are establishing this industry group so that our members can develop informed and unified strategies in response to a range of issues, including event liquor licensing, drug policy, harm minimisation practise, building code compliance, green initiatives, user pays policing, event medical guidelines, and third party ticket sites. “Our aims are to make festivals safer for…

  • ACT: Pill testing, safe injecting room in new Drug Strategy Action Plan

    An expansion of pill testing at events in the ACT and revisiting a safe injecting room for opioid users are two of 43 measures contained in the ACT Government’s new three-year Drug Strategy Action Plan released today. The Government says harm minimisation underpins the Action Plan 2018-2021, which outlines the priorities over the next three years to…

  • Offering Hope For Those Affected By Drug Policy

    On Friday, 12 October, Sir Richard Branson will officially launch a new Uniting Church campaign, calling on governments to reform Australia’s drug legislation to reflect a harm minimisation approach. The grassroots campaign calls for the decriminalisation of small amounts of currently illegal substances for personal use. The call has been spearheaded by the NSW and ACT…

  • Leyonhjelm leads the way on legal cannabis

    Senator David Leyonhjelm attended the Uniting Church’s drug summit in Sydney today, reinforcing the Liberal Democrats’ longstanding policy of decriminalising recreational drug use in Australia. “I believe we have reached a level of maturity in this country where we can move beyond policies based on fear or disapproval and embrace an evidence-based medical and harm-minimisation…

  • Amnesty bins and pill testing: Greens hold summit on festival policing

    Representatives from the music industry, policing, and drug and harm minimisation experts were present at the talks to discuss how to keep people safe at festivals. […]

  • Pill testing debate needs to be ‘less divisive, more decisive’: festival organisers

    “Harm minimisation is dealt with as a law enforcement issue in this country and state, whereas when you look overseas it’s dealt with as a health issue, so that is where the conversation needs to go,” Mothership Event’s Justin Nyker said. […]

  • It’s time to try a different approach to drug use

    Will a strategic approach of harm minimisation absolutely stop the number of deaths from drug consumption? No. Might it reduce the number of deaths? Yes. Isn’t that enough of a reason to try a different approach to drug use? No doubt the Canberra pill-trial wasn’t perfect. But it demonstrated a willingness to admit prohibition is…

  • Gladys Berejiklian must listen to Adriana Buccianti after Defqon.1 deaths

    It’s time the Berejiklian Government listened to grieving families, former police and experts all calling for more effective action on drugs-related deaths at festivals. Specifically, it’s time they entered the real world by shifting from a tin-eared approach of criminalisation on drugs to one of harm minimisation. […]

  • Two people die after attending Sydney’s defqon.1 festival

    Harm minimisation group Sniff Off said it was “disgusting” Ms Berejiklian was “using the tragic loss of these two young lives to push her absurd ‘just don’t do drugs’ message, when it is the NSW government’s extreme overpolicing measures that allowed deaths like this to occur in the first place”. “Installing police with drug dogs…

  • Drug test plan faces new Senate battle

    Labor MP Emma McBride reflected on her experience with a harm-minimisation approach in her work as a mental health pharmacist at Wyong Hospital. “If the government is genuine in its claim to help those burdened by dependence, a good first step would be properly funding units like this one and not attacking welfare recipients,” she…