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The facilities at the Medically Supervised Injecting Room in Melbourne (Image: AAP/Tracey Nearmy)

The case for safe injecting rooms is clear cut — they save valuable lives

Jun 11, 2020

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New psychoactive substances are making a mockery of drug laws

Nov 05, 2019

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Bitter pill testing

Oct 17, 2019

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian (Image: AAP /Mick Tsikas)

This level of unthinking ignorance on pill-testing is astounding

Michael Bradley

Oct 17, 2019

A medically supervised injecting room in Melbourne (Image: AAP/TRACEY NEARMY)

Did Miranda Devine lose the ‘war on drugs’?

Antony Loewenstein

Sep 09, 2019

Crikey readers have their say.

Drugs are a societal, not a judicial, problem

Comments, corrections, clarifications and cock-ups

Sep 12, 2012

Drug policy is often described as hard or soft. Really these terms are misnomers. Being tough on drugs is something which is done by weak politicians, writes <b>Lisa Pryor</b>.

Tough on drugs? Tough too as cost of new laws goes to pot

Sep 11, 2012

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 <b>author Kate Holden</b>.

Kate Holden: lots of people like drugs, try asking them about it

Nov 23, 2010

The Greens intend to maintain their moderate drugs policy rather than back-pedal -- as they repeatedly have in the past -- under threat of a scare campaign. It's the right play.

The Greens take their medicine on the drug debate

Charles Richardson

Jun 16, 2010

<b>Dr Alex Wodak</b> reviews <i>The Wire</i>. In his professional medical opinion: it's highly addictive.

An industry insider’s review of The Wire

Jun 29, 2009

There are 10 articles in drug policy