The slums of Phnom Penh: working with child drug usersAt one stage I counted ten young street children injecting heroin in the ally around me. Monks slowly walked by on their morning alms. For a Westerner it was an unexpected juxtaposition, writes Allan Soultaris from Cambodia.
Drug use
Kate Holden: lots of people like drugs, try asking them about it
Drug use, particularly that of marijuana, is endemic in all our communities, and yet we persist in throwing up our hands, sputtering outrage and condemning users whenever the four-letter-word is mentioned, writes author Kate Holden.
Don’t let the evidence get in the way of evidence-based policy
Time for another expensive anti-drugs campaign aimed at teenagers. Let’s hope the real problem drug users see it.
A trip down memory lane…
Mother Jones presents a detailed historical timeline of drug use in the ‘Altered States of America’.
Columbia looks to ban recreational drug use
Columbia, which currently permits adult citizens to possess small amounts of drugs like marijuana and cocaine, is now looking to ban drugs completely.
Ben Cousins given the Haneef treatment
Ben Cousins’ year of living dangerously has reached its seemingly inevitable conclusion with the AFL commission banning The Brownlow Medalist from the competition for a year, writes Francis Leach.
A 1% chance: The stats on the AFL’s farcical drug regime
The AFL’s illicit drugs policy is a farce that fails to deter players. So if we assume perfectly random testing – that is, all players face an equal chance of being detected at any time – we can estimate a player’s chances of getting caught.
