The drug summit will result in a final report in early 2025 with the government yet to make any commitments on the basis of the summit.
Earlier this week, several hundred politicians, policy experts, police, health professionals, and people with lived experience of drug use packed into Sydney's International Convention Centre to discuss drug-related harm in New South Wales.The summit will result in a final report in early 2025 with the government yet to make any commitments on the basis of the summit.
Earlier this year, Mr Wheeler repealed laws decriminalising the possession of small amounts of illicit drugs in the US state of Oregon, declaring the health system had been overwhelmed and that drug-related crime had exploded due to the legislation. "Portland is a false equivalent to here, because the nature of our drug problem in NSW and Sydney is very different to that of Portland," he said.
Drug checking was one of many measures touched upon by Alison Ritter from the University of New South Wales' Drug Policy Modelling Program, as she highlighted the types of reform that could be adopted to minimise and prevent drug-related harm.Professor Ritter noted the government's capacity to enact "no-cost options", such as altering the law around medically supervised injecting centres.
"We've already been investing very recently, hundreds of millions of dollars into targeted services. Despite that, I think it will require continued focus going forward," he said.Providing powerful ammunition to the case for drug-checking, Amy Peacock of NDARC's sobering assessment of the issue faced by NSW in 2024 spoke to the unprecedented potency of new drugs on the market.
According to Professor Peacock, such drugs were often synthetically produced, purchased as counterfeit medicines, and mixed with other substances, making them potentially hundreds of times more potent than drugs such as heroin."The contents of illicit drugs are more unpredictable than ever before."Michael Doyle speaks at the Sydney hearings of the NSW drug summit.
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