Welcome to our community space where we share peer written blogs, reflections, lived experience stories and poems. This space is also used to post summaries on the latest drug research, laws and news.
You can also find details on our upcoming Hi-Events, this includes events we are attending or our ‘chatroom takeovers’. For these events we invite relevant healthcare professionals, AOD workers, researchers and passionate peers to lead focused discussions on different subjects and let you guys in the chatroom ask the questions!
Want to contribute to this space or have a story to share? Get in touch via our ‘become a Hi-Peer’ page and you can upload your Hi-Tale there. Alternatively if you’d like more information you can contact us via email at hi-ground@quihn.org and we will get back to you.
NADA’s new amazing AOD Resource Finder! This is the ultimate AOD resource finder we’ve all been waiting for… The Network of Alcohol and other Drugs Agencies (NADA) has just launched a new digital portal to make it easier for health professionals to find evidence-based practice resources online from trusted service providers nationally. The portal contains … Continued
Weed News from Around the World during July 2021 Links below! Australian Medical Cannabis Prices Drop 11% In A Year Tasmania: The First State to End Evidence-Free RDT! Senate Democratic Leaders Unveil Draft Bill to Legalize Cannabis Is The Czech Republic on The Cusp of a Cannabis Boom? Australian Cannabis Communities Bloom in Recent Years … Continued
Will Australia Learn From Thailand’s Growing Medical Cannabis Tourism Industry? Cannabis Treatment for Sick Dogs Lags Behind US, but Colorado Expert Urges Caution Doctors Drowning in Red Tape as TGA Upgrade Blows Out SAS-B Approval Times NSW Greens MP Cate Faehrmann Demands Action After Police Target Mardi Grass Attendees Legalising Recreational Cannabis Will Protect Patients … Continued
The Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS) is an ongoing national illicit drug monitoring system intended to identify emerging trends of local and national concern in illicit drug markets. The IDRS consists of annual interviews across all Australian jurisdictions with people who inject drugs (PWID), as well as analysis and examination of indicator data sources related … Continued
The National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program is a key initiative funded by the Australian Government in establishing an objective evidence base on illicit drug use and the level of use of a number of legitimate substances. This report is the twelfth in an ongoing series on wastewater samples that were collected in August and October … Continued
Drug Decriminalisation: Progress or Political Red Herring? Ground-breaking peer led research which centres the perspectives of people who use drugs on various models of decriminalisaton. INPUD believes it is time to disrupt the misconception that decriminalisation efforts unquestionably represent progress when they have been developed with little or no consultation with people who … Continued
Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach…(and steroids). I added that part. Hehe Arnold Schwarzenegger! The use of steroids and other image enhancing drugs has been on the rise in Queensland over the last few years. More and more people … Continued