Believe There Is Good

25/10/2024

have a guess! How many do you think?


P.s. Answer is in the following (ad free) article:
https://medium.com//the-deterrence-myth-a949432574e2

24/10/2024

Imagine a Trump press conference. "We’ve got the best deterrence, folks. Nobody deters like we do. Tremendous results! Look at all those up arrows! we are winning so much you must be tired of winning!"
This week, we dug into the myth of deterrence. It became clearer and clearer that tougher penalties don’t reduce harm—they increase it.
Thanks for joining the conversation! 🌱📊
Catch up on the full article to recap what we’ve learned 👉 https://medium.com//the-deterrence-myth-a949432574e2

24/10/2024

What do you think your tax money should be spent on?

23/10/2024

We’ve been doubling down on penalties for decades, but are we really making a difference, or are we just pushing people further away from help?

Read the full article here to learn more and join the conversation! https://medium.com//the-deterrence-myth-a949432574e2

25/06/2024

🛑 The war on people that is the 'war on drugs' hits marginalised people the hardest — In her recent report, Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, shows how punitive drug policies and practices disproportionately affected people in situations of homelessness, poverty, people with mental health conditions, s*x workers, women, children, LGBTQA+ persons, Black people, Indigenous Peoples, migrants, persons who are incarcerated or detained, persons with disabilities, those living with HIV and people living in rural areas...

Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng presented the report today at the Human Rights Council and we highlight her call for *full* decriminalisation, embedded in a harm reduction approach; as well as her important acknowledgement of the asymmetry of power and harm experienced by the most vulnerabilised in our communities.

The 'drug war' fuels and feeds of multiple systems of oppression, compounding our communities' experience of harm. There's a different way:

📘 'Drug use, harm reduction and the right to health' is available at: https://idpc.net/publications/2024/05/drug-use-harm-reduction-and-the-right-to-health-report-of-the-un-special-rapporteur-on-the-right

25/06/2024

I wonder if it’s the same when it’s his son?

His mate boasted it was a 'birthday treat'. Read more: https://trib.al/CpBFAAR

06/01/2024

Check out my blog post
https://wix.to/kUcrugy
Discover the incongruity in the war on drugs 👀😮 Dive into the ACIC's media release and find out who truly benefits. Let's talk about it! https://wix.to/6IYuo7C

12 July 2023 Collaboration between Police and Organised Crime is still flourishing. The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) has released the latest findings from its National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program, revealing increasing levels of consumption for some substances. It speaks....

06/12/2023

https://www.unodc.org/documents/ungass2016/Contributions/Civil/Count-the-Costs-Initiative/AWDR-exec-summary.pdf

Count the Costs!

27/11/2023

Check out our latest blog post: a collection of Drug law related ramblings with a call for government action!

In a world where kindness is often overlooked, we embark on a mission to encourage and inspire those facing the struggles of substance use to look beyond themselves and extend kindness to strangers. Beyond improving well-being and self-esteem, acts of kindness facilitate community reintegration and....