We would like to share the invitation by Drug Free Australia to their webinar on 9 February at 17.00 CET. The webinar will dive into the relationship between Australia’s harm reduction and its vastly increased drug-related deaths. 

Abstract
Australia was the first country worldwide to officially adopt Harm Reduction (HR) as a key part of its national drug policy but whenever HR has been given priority, it has correlated with vastly multiplied drug-related deaths.  Not once, but twice – separated by 8 years of vastly decreased deaths when prevention and rehab were given priority.  Why?

Australia boasted ‘state of the art’ harm reduction programming, but from its introduction in 1985, it saw drug use skyrocket, and opiate deaths quadruple over the next 14 years.  Arrested by 8 years of prioritised drug prevention and rehab, which sharply decreased deaths by 67%, it once again replicated the vast increases in mortality when Harm Reduction was once again given priority.  Deaths from particular illicit drugs increased in the next decade by 210-590%.

Australia is the only country in the world that has a quasi-experimental ‘control’ by which to judge the effects of Harm Reduction.  This one-hour session will examine the Australian experience and demonstrate that the prevailing science on harm reduction programming has only found ineffectiveness and failure, the clear reasons behind such failure.

Webinar link
Meeting ID: 870 7708 9733 Passcode: 279256 

Time by timezone:
8 am                US Pacific time
10 am              US Central time
11 am              US Eastern time
4 pm                UK
5 pm                Central European time & West Africa