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Paul Dietze on COVID-19 and drug use

Professor Paul Dietze

An excerpt from our December 2020 end of year forum.

December 2020 Meeting – Impacts and Opportunities of COVID-19

Professor Paul Dietze is one of Australia’s leading alcohol and other drug epidemiologists and speaks here about recent research into changing drug use patterns during COVID-19 lockdowns.

Yarra Drug and Health Forum

1 week 7 hours ago

Congratulations to the team at Victoria Street Drug Solutions for this successful project!

Art brings residents and safe injecting room users together

Residents who live near Melbourne’s safe injecting room in Richmond have come together with drug users to put on an art exhibition in a show of support.

Yarra Drug and Health Forum

1 week 1 day ago

This Sunday is Support. Don't Punish. Global Day of Action and Open Society Foundations are

Repairing the Harms of the Drug War

Recognizing June 26—the Support Don’t Punish Global Day of Action—panelists from the U.S., Brazil, and the Philippines explore the consequences of failed drug policy and how reparations are crucial to creating a post-prohibitionist future.

Yarra Drug and Health Forum

2 weeks 1 day ago

VAADA are running a series of forums, featuring a variety of political parties talking about