Families and Friends for Drug Law Reform

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1 June 2009	New German law for heroin prescription challenges Australia to take its head out of the sand ...“The German decision challenges Australia to remove John Howard’s veto of this medical treatment and put humanity and social well-being first"
4 February 2008	Call for Judicial Inquiry into Causes of Heroin Drought and Methamphetamine Flood A careful study of the public statements of the Australian Federal Police and other law enforcement agencies throws doubt on the Howard Government’s claim that the law enforcement effort funded by the Tough on Drugs Strategy caused the heroin drought.
19 November 2007	No new ideas in Coalition's dead end policy The Prime Minister is playing with people’s lives for politics when he calls for welfare payments to people convicted of drug offences to be quarantined.......This is a dead end Coalition policy.
21 October 2007	Opposition leader to speak at 12th annual remembrance ceremony
13 September 2007	Bronwyn Bishop drug report a recipe for disaster.
17 June 2007	In the best interests of the child: Integration of drug and child protection policies  The response to the alarming increase in child protection cases across Australia in recent years has ignored the role of drug and alcohol policy.
1 June 2007	PRISON LAW IS FOUNDATION FOR CONTINUED VICTIMISATION “The Corrections Management Act that the Government pushed through the Assembly last night will do nothing to improve rehabilitation of prisoners and reduce reoffending,” said John Ley, vice-president of Families and Friends for Drug Law Reform.   This is because the Government seems to have been intent on establishing an efficient law for discipline, searching, banning, seizing and punishment at the expense of one that addresses the severe health problems that cause people to be in prison and that will cause them to return if not addressed. More>>
1 March 2007	Parliamentary Inquiry introduces sense into the “Ice” debate
29 March 2006	Public Meeting on Methamphetamines, Mental Health and Drug Law Reform
6 March 2006	Drug policy: A plea to put health and wellbeing first
8 Februay 2006	Young and mentally ill endangered by Howard's cannabis scare
12 November 2004	Government study on 2000-01 heroin drought expected to be a whitewash
10 November 2004	Federal Government more interested in slogans than effective drug solutions
16 August 2004	Tougher drug laws - more kids to have criminal record
26 October 2003	Drug Deaths to be Remembered
15 October 2003	ACT Prison Inquiry – Prisons Damage Families
8 September 2003	Inquiry a litany of lost opportunities
23 April 2003	Reality check needed on latest drug bust
Undated	PM rejection of NCA evidence frightening
4 November 2002	Anne Deveson to speak of drug use and mental illness
10 August 2002	NCA INDEPENDENCE GONE: NATIONAL CRIME AUTHORITY BROUGHT TO HEEL