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Stop Child Strip Searches
HRA is pleased to support an initiative led by our colleagues at Redfern Legal Centre ahead of the NSW Drug Summit aimed at stopping the strip searching of children and young people by NSW Police. An open letter has been sent to the NSW Premier and copied to the Ministers for Youth, Police, Health, and the Attorney General demanding this…
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NSP in Prisons – The Missing Link
The Global State of Harm Reduction (GSHR) Report 2022 highlighted that even in countries where harm reduction programs are implemented (such as Australia), availability, accessibility and quality remain significant issues1. This includes uneven distribution of harm reduction programs, and what the report calls “great inequalities” in relation to access. In the Australian context, that ‘great inequity’ is most evident in…
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No way for Sydneysiders to test the secret threats in drugs that could send them to the hospital
Gino Vumbaca, president of drug safety organisation Harm Reduction Australia, said his website receives “at least two to three emails a day” from people who want to safely test the pills that they or their children have. […]
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Canberra chemists identify three new recreational drugs after mystery substances turn up at Australia’s only fixed pill-testing site
Three mysterious recreational drugs have surfaced for the first time in Australia with chemists describing them as “unexpected, new psychoactive substances”. […]
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This stroke survivor wants the government to do one thing in his lifetime
Tony Trimingham wants to see one outcome from his 20 years of drug reform advocacy: that NSW decriminalises small quantities of drugs. Harm Reduction Australia executive director Annie Madden has urged Minns to announce the summit to “get on with the business of saving lives and reducing drug-related harms”. […]
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Harm Reduction Journal Publication on Pill Testing in Australia
A step change model analysis of the establishment of pill testing in one Australian jurisdiction […]
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Urgent warning reignites calls to fix serious problem affecting young Aussies
Dr David Caldicott, Clinical Lead for Pill Testing Australia and CANTest, who provide festival and fixed-site health and drug checking services in the ACT, told Yahoo News Australia that Canberra has offered other states, like NSW, free trials. […]
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Two people dead after attending Knockout Outdoor music festival in Western Sydney
President of Harm Reduction Australia and Pill Testing Australia Gino Vumbaca said his offer to conduct free trials had been knocked back by the state government for the past five years. […]
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‘Out of control’: new findings suggest NSW Police aren’t abiding by strip search procedures
Gino Vumbaca, President of Harm Reduction Australia and Pill Testing Australia, questioned why strip searching has to continue in the first place. “I think what’s fundamentally missing from this report is an understanding of the impact of strip searching people, and young people at that” […]
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Labor under pressure for drug reform after Sydney’s spate of shootings
President of Harm Reduction Australia and Pill Testing Australia Gino Vumbaca said the organisation had offered to run free pill testing trials, both during last month’s pride month or at a future music festival, which were not responded to favourably. […]
