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The inhumane and unjust War
against Drugs
Dr
Norm Stamper, former head of the Seattle Police Department and adviser to Law
Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP)
Listen
to the audio:
Power
Point presentation here>>
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Illicit
drugs policy through the lens of regulation
Speaker:
Alison
Ritter
Alison
presented new research which has strong implications for policy
development in the illicit drugs field and which could enhance further,
Australia’s harm reduction strategies.
Invitation,
Powerpoint
presentation, Reference
list
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Drug Action Week Forum 24
June 2008Can
NSPs reduce OH&S risk in the AMC?
Syringes
and Work Safety in the new ACT
prison
Speaker:
Mr John Ryan
John
Ryan (BA/LLB) is Chief Executive Officer of Anex in Victoria where he
has overseen projects such as the review of injecting equipment supplied
by NSP in Victoria;
the review of service delivery and models of best practice for
the Inner West Region of Melbourne and the “National Consultations on
the situational Context, Service Types and Issues of Concern for NSP in
Australia”
He has been chair of the mental Health and Illegal Drugs
Conference.
He is also Chair of the Anex Needle and Syringe Programs in
Prison Committee.
Listen to audio here Introductions/Speech/Questions.
Flyer
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Drug
Action Week Public Forum 18 June 2007
Parental substance abuse, parenting capacity and child protection: always
a three way tug of war? Presented by Dr Sue
Packer, AM, FRACP
....[there is a] mutual obligation between generations ... [and] ... the
safety of every child is the responsibility of everyone associated with
the child’s life and no one person is to blame. I believe these
are two excellent principles to guide the development of more effective
services for children of substance abusing families. Flyer,
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Evidence-based drug policy - myth or reality? - the
ways in which research evidence is used or not used in policy making
processes
Public meeting presented on 6 Feb 2007 by Alison Ritter, Associate
Professor, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre and Director, the
Drug Policy Modelling Program (DPMP)
view the presentation slides >>
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Evidence-based drug policy -
myth or reality?
Speaker: Alison Ritter
Associate Professor, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre and
Director, the Drug Policy Modelling Program (DPMP)
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Methamphetamines,
Mental Health and Drug Law Reform. A presentation by Andrew Macintosh, Deputy Director of the Australia
Institute.
Thursday 30 March 2006
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Making
it Happen: Impact of Drug Policy on the implementation of the Canberra
Social Plan
Wednesday 23rd June,
2004. Flyer
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The
Heroin Ban in Australia: Modern Witchcraft, Contemporary Inquisitions
Monday 15th December,
2003
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Drugs Affect all
Sectors of Our Community
Thursday 28th June, 2001
First question session
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Drug
Action Week 2002
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