National Drug Policy New Zealand

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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