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Illicit drug use in Australia is the recreational use of prohibited drugs in Australia.Illicit drugs include illegal drugs (such as cannabis, opiates, and certain types of stimulants), pharmaceutical drugs (such as pain-killers and tranquillisers) when used for non-medical purposes, and other substances used inappropriately (such as inhalants). [1]
Bluelight is a web-forum, research portal, online community, and non-profit organization dedicated to harm reduction in drug use. [1] [2] Its userbase includes current and former substance users, academic researchers, drug policy activists, and mental health advocates.
The organisations goal is to end prohibition of recreational drug use and draw attention to the human rights abuses faced by illicit drug advocates. The organisation provides a number of services, including needle exchanges , community smoke-ins , and an email newsletter.
In the ACT Greens policy platform, it is a goal of the Greens to "Legalise the production, sale, and use of cannabis and cannabis products for recreational use," "Defend and extend the decriminalisation of possession of drugs in quantities appropriate for personal use," and to expunge criminal records related to use, sale and cultivation of ...
In Europe as of 2007, Sweden spends the second highest percentage of GDP, after the Netherlands, on drug control. [12] The UNODC argues that when Sweden reduced spending on education and rehabilitation in the 1990s in a context of higher youth unemployment and declining GDP growth, illicit drug use rose [13] but restoring expenditure from 2002 again sharply decreased drug use as student ...
Recreational drug use is the use of one or more psychoactive drugs to induce an altered state of consciousness, either for pleasure or for some other casual purpose or pastime. [1] When a psychoactive drug enters the user's body, it induces an intoxicating effect . [ 1 ]
The National Drug Strategy (NDS) is the national drug regulation organization which maintains drug policy of the Australian Government. It began with its first framework in 1998 and has regularly formulated the Australian approach to drug education , treatment, rehabilitation , and prevention of substance abuse .
In 1998, the Prime Minister established the ANCD as part of the Commonwealth Government's response to reduce the harm caused by drugs in Australia. [3]In 2004, National Indigenous Drug and Alcohol Committee (NIADC) was established by The Australian National Council on Drugs (ANCD) specially provide the most suitable and efficient solution for ANCD to solve the problems of Indigenous drug and ...