Youth RISE (Resource. Information. Support. Education.) is an international youth network for reducing drug-related harm. Caitlin Padgett introduces the movement.
No caring parent wants their child to end up an addict, so to be horrified at the thought of your kids smoking dope is pretty normal - about as normal as it is for teenagers to experiment with drugs. Wanting to take a firm hand and insisting on random drug tests is an understandable reaction, but in the end, it may do more harm than good. Take James for instance.
'Hippy crack', 'yabba', 'jets' and 'goop'. You'd be challenged to find these wild words in the Oxford Dictionary, but you can easily find them and their meanings in Get the Msg! We explain our text message-based drug information service.
Mixing sport and too much alcohol has long been a New Zealand pastime. Kim Thomas looks at the challenges for those trying to break the harmful trend, and some initiatives offering hope.
For many in the East Coast region, alcohol and drugs seem the only escape from a life of unemployment and apathy, and it’s a problem affecting young people as well as adults. But a number of Community Action on Youth and Drugs (CAYAD) people and initiatives have begun to make a real difference.
We support the Ministry of Transport in their identification of alcohol/drug impaired driving as an area of high concern for road safety. The Drug Foundation acknowledges that the statistics around drug and alcohol related road injuries and fatalities in New Zealand are unacceptably high and that further initiatives need to be implemented to address our drug and alcohol related road toll.
We strongly support the objectives of the Sale and Supply of Liquor and Liquor Enforcement Bill. While we have concerns about the ‘ad hoc’ approach to this bill, we recognize that this stems from its omnibus nature, whereby it seeks to make amendments to 3 separate acts relating to liquor.
The New Zealand Drug Foundation supports the intention of the bill to acknowledge the multiple needs of youth offenders and their families and whanau by both extending the jurisdiction of the youth court and strengthening and expanding the orders available to youth courts in order to provide more effective treatment and rehabilitation services.
Get the Msg! is a drug information service via mobile text messaging. It provides people credible and factual health and safety information about drugs in a discrete and accessible way wherever they are and at anytime of the day.
'Hippy crack', 'yabba', 'jets' and 'goop'. You'd be challenged to find these wild words in the Oxford Dictionary, but you can easily find them and their meanings in Get the Msg! We explain our text message-based drug information service.