Policy and Advocacy: Heroin and Opiates

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The point of prison needle exchange

Friday, November 27, 2009

“Give needles to inmates” was the Dominion Post’s provocative headline when reporting on our “Alcohol and other drugs in the criminal justice system” policy, and a proposed Australian prison needle exchange has just been sunk after media controversy.

Needle exchange comes of age

Friday, November 27, 2009

The New Zealand National Needle Exchange Programme was the first of its kind in the world, and this year, it turns 21. Kim Thomas looks at the history of this quiet achiever and talks to some of those who have helped form its development over the years.

Needle exchange comes of age

Thursday, November 26, 2009

The New Zealand National Needle Exchange Programme was the first of its kind in the world, and this year, it turns 21. Kim Thomas looks at the history of this quiet achiever and talks to some of those who have helped form its development over the years.

Into my arms: Injecting drug use in New Zealand

Monday, April 28, 2008

We’ve previously updated readers on findings from the Illicit Drug Monitoring System (IDMS). In this update, Chris Wilkins and Charles Henderson focus on injecting drug use behaviour with data from the IDMS and Needle Exchange New Zealand’s seroprevalence surveys.

The Director's Cut - vol 17 no 2

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Last month, thousands of New Zealanders wore paper poppies in remembrance of the nation’s war dead.

Using the red Flanders Poppy as a symbol of remembrance dates back to the Napoleonic Wars when poppies were the first plant to grow in the churned up soil of soldiers' graves.

This connection between the red poppy and war dead was renewed over a century later on the Western Front during the First World War.