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Drug Policy Update
Date of publication:
Mar 2001-Oct 2004
ISSN: 1175-4974
Drug Policy Update is a quarterly newsletter to promote, communicate and seek feedback on the National Drug Policy 1998-2003, and initiatives undertaken.
It is published by the Ministry of Health and has input from a number of government and non-government organisations with an interest in reducing drug-related harm.
Document availability
Each newsletter is available in PDF format.
Drug Policy Update: Volume 3, Number 2, October 2004 (PDF, 151 KB)
Included in this issue:
Acting Against Illicit Drugs
Conference Weighs up Drug Strategies
National Drug Policy Discretionary Grant Fund
Growing tobacco control research in New Zealand
Workshop to prepare for Noumea
Release of Consultation Document – Review of Smoke-free Environments Regulations 1999
Do Liquor Bans Work?
First Meeting on Alcohol and Health in the Pacific
Drug Policy Update: Volume 3, Number 1, April 2004 (PDF, 419 KB)
Included in this issue:
Ecstasy comes to end at the border
Available for Consumption
National Drug Policy Review
Reviewing the Smoke-free Environments Regulations (1999)
Ministry develops addictions workforce
Ministry reviews regulations
New handbook for drug education
Update on amendment to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975
Drug Policy Update: Volume 2, Number 3, November 2003 (PDF, 153 KB)
Included in this issue:
We focus on Maori
Maori mortality in the past
Ministry responds to newly corrected mortality figures
Health Sponsorship Council
Aukati Kai Paipa 2000
Maori Tobacco Control Strategy presented to Government
2003 National Auahi Kore Conference – He Matariki: A new beginning
ALAC addresses alcohol and Maori
The Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Sector Standard
Four major health documents cover Maori health
Putting policy into action
Department of Corrections' Te Mahere Rautaki Maori
Youth Offending Strategy shows positive approach
Maori providers address alcohol and other drug problems
Interesting websites
Drug Policy Update: Volume 2, Number 2, June 2003 (PDF, 299 KB)
Included in this issue:
Sprucing up the National Drug Policy website
Tobacco Control Research Strategy
Update on review of alcohol advertising
Border interceptions of 'ice' methamphetamine
Methamphetamine Action Plan
Professional development will decrease drug and alcohol use
WHO adopts Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
Health Committee Reports Back to House
Changes to alcohol excise tax
Interesting websites
Drug Policy Update: Volume 2. Number 1. March 2003 (PDF, 200 KB)
Included in this issue:
What is harm minimisation?
Ground-breaking tobacco prosecution sends strong warning
Effective drug education
Smoke-free Environments Amendment Bill
Reclassification and action plan for methamphetamine
Drug-assisted Sexual Assault/Drink Spiking
WHO medal recognises Health Sponsorship Council
The Christchurch Youth Drug Court Pilot
Expert Advisory Committee on Drugs
Needle and syringe exchange programme saves lives
Stopping the importation of MDMA
4th International Conference on Drugs and Young People
Drug Policy Update: Volume 1. Number 4. December 2001 (PDF, 162 KB)
Included in this issue:
Introducing the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975
International experts address cannabis inquiry
New Smokefree legislation
Protocol for methadone maintenance treatment in New Zealand
Pacific Spirit Conference a success
Australian Inter-Governmental Committee on Drugs to meet in Wellington
Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
Palmerston North community-based needle exchange service to be re-established
Youth interagency website wins awards
Drinking In New Zealand surveys
Drug Policy Update: Volume 1. Number 3. September 2001 (PDF, 101 KB)
Included in this issue:
Second-hand Smoke in the Workplace
Revision of the Protocol for Methadone Maintenance Treatment in New Zealand
The Virtual Clearinghouse on Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs
Stopping the Manufacture of Illicit Drugs
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: The Preventable Disability
Expert Advisory Committee on Drugs
New Zealand Drug Statistics
Inter-Agency Committee on Drugs
Cannabis Inquiry Continues
Revised Guidelines for the Safe Use of Alcohol
Large Seizure of Heroin and ‘Ice’
Drug Policy Update: Volume 1. Number 2. June 2001 (PDF, 1 MB)
Included in this issue:
Setting Achievable Goals - The National Alcohol Strategy
Non-government Agencies - have your say
Alcohol Training Reviewed
Highway Patrol Launched
Treatment Works Week - June 24 - June 29 2001
Tobacco Facts 2001
New Partnership Programme
Cannabis Inquiry Starts
Record Ecstasy Seizure
Drug Policy Update: Volume 1. Number 1. March 2001
Included in this issue:
Second-hand Smoke and the Hospitality Industry
Cannabis Inquiry by Health Committee
Non-government Organisations and the Work of the Inter-agency Committee on Drugs