Senior police, prison officers and lawyers are standing side-by-side with drug users calling for law reform, to bring an end to killing and criminalising young Australians. Drug-related deaths, diseases, injuries, crimes and social costs continue to rise despite more than 80,000 consumer arrests in Australia each year. So now four former Police Commissioners and Assistant...

The Australian Sex Party would see personal drug use decriminalised. Decriminalisation has been shown to reduce both drug use, overall, and drug-related harm. It also eliminates potential social harm associated with a drug-related arrest or conviction.

The New Zealand Drug Harm Index 2016 estimates the social cost of drug-related harms and intervention costs in 2014/15 as NZ$1.8 billion. The total cost of illicit drug use has been considered as having three components. The cost of personal harm, that is, the harms that descend upon an individual as a consequence of their...

Methamphetamine is of national concern, but what does this statement mean to frontline police officers?

Explores the prevalence of sexual violence and alcohol and other drug use (AOD) in Australia. Summary This state of knowledge paper explores: the prevalence of sexual violence and alcohol and other drug use (AOD) in Australia; the association between alcohol and other drug use and severity of, or vulnerability to, sexual violence and re-victimisation; correlations...