Drug Harm Minimisation

The deaths of two young people, two other lives under threat and harm done to many others at this weekend's Defqon festival at the base of the Blue Mountains highlight that our current approach to drug policy is not enough. My heart goes out to the families who thought their children would come home safely after a festival of music and they haven't. And I feel for police who bear the responsibility for enforcement when they say they can't be in every person's head all the time. As much as we hope that our children and their friends just didn't take drugs, generation after generation have shown us that they will make decisions that are high risk.

Adriana Buccianti, whose son died four years ago, puts it well:

Prohi