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Drug use and social policy at the UN Cannabis law reform’s happy failure A hangover epiphany Cheaper than water? February 2011 Sport under the influence Alcohol industry sponsorship has been a gold mine for sport in New Zealand, so much so that many clubs say they couldn’t survive without it. But what has been the cost to the codes, the players and the general public of alcohol’s high profile wherever we compete? Contents matters of substance February 2011 Features Vol 21 No 1 ISSN 1177-200X 02 Cover Story 26 Drugs and development 30 Opinion matters of substance is published by the Sport under the influence – joining the dots The debate down at NZ Drug Foundation. All rights reserved. Neither this publication nor any part Goodbye Blue Monday of it may be reproduced without prior Where better to talk about permission of the NZ Drug Foundation. alcohol law reform than at the pub? Christchurch matters of substance invites feedback and contributions. If you’re interested in CAYAD co-ordinator contributing a guest editorial or article, Mike Moss reports on how please contact us: an organised debate went [email protected] Illicit drug use and trafficking p +64 4 801 6303 Sponsoring and down with the locals. responsibility have a severe and destructive effect upon development. 37 Mythbusters Brand development/graphic design Across the country, sports This article examines the Origin Design +64 4 801 6644 clubrooms have been the Is alcohol cheaper [email protected] UN’s struggle to marry drug social glue of many a than bottled water? www.origindesign.co.nz control initiatives with community. But as New Zealand research got policy that also fosters New Zealand’s binge-drinking tongues wagging around NZ Drug Foundation health and human rights 3rd Floor, 111 Dixon Street culture has grown ever the world by claiming some in developing nations. PO Box 3082, Wellington, New Zealand more unsophisticated, the alcohol costs less than p +64 4 801 6303 relationship between alcohol bottled water. Surely that and sport has thrown up can’t be true, can it? When you have finished with some uncomfortable truths. Regulars this magazine, please recycle it. Our culture of 01 The Director’s Cut News sporting excess Become a member Executive Director Ross Bell After several high-profile describes how stonewalling 01 Key Events and Dates The NZ Drug Foundation has been and embarrassing cases of Bolivian coca leaf law at the heart of major alcohol and involving athletes and Our list of coming reform shows zero-tolerance conferences and events other drug policy debates for over alcohol, many are beginning is alive and well at the UN. 20 years. During that time, we have to question the place has your professional development well in hand. demonstrated a strong commitment alcohol plays in our sporting 22 Guest Editorial to advocating policies and practices culture. Could things be Two Drinks Max New Zealand News based on the best evidence available. changing for the better? 32 You can help us. A key strength of the The proposition NZ Drug Foundation lies in its diverse 16 membership base. As a member of the Cannabis law reform NZ Drug Foundation, you will receive supporters’ hopes were information about major alcohol and dashed with the defeat of other drug policy challenges. You can also get involved in our work to find solutions Proposition 19 during the mid-term elections in to those challenges. Sunday Herald Editor Bryce California, but they’re still Here’s a round-up of Johns explains the reasons Our membership includes health pleased with the result. New Zealand news concerning promoters, primary health and behind the Two Drinks Max tobacco, drugs and booze. community organisations, researchers, 24 Hello Sunday morning campaign and suggests students, schools and boards of trustees, New Zealanders can expect 35 World News policy makers, and addiction treatment to see more of this sort agencies and workers. of thing. Membership and subscription enquiries [email protected] 20 Viewpoints or visit our website. Should cannabis be on WADA’s banned substances list? www.drugfoundation.org.nz We talk with Chris Raine, a In our second segment remarkable young Australian Keeping up to date’s a looking objectively at both whose innovative and breeze with our drug news sides of a contentious issue, courageous online programme from overseas. we consider whether is helping many question dope-smoking athletes and overcome the 17 Quotes of Substance should be disciplined. We prominence of alcohol in Please enjoy our leave you to decide between their daily lives and culture. presentation of recent competing arguments. drug-related quotations. matters of substance February 11 www.drugfoundation.org.nz The Director’s Cut Key Events and Dates FebFast 6th International Conference February, Nationwide on Drugs and Young People FebFast is an alcohol awareness 2–4 May, Melbourne, Australia campaign born in Australia and Themed ‘Making the Connections’, now under way for the first time in the conference will examine the New Zealand. Ordinary New Zealanders complexity and interaction of factors taking part are challenged to forgo that influence young people’s lives alcohol during February to raise and will celebrate the role young funds for programmes helping to people play in addressing harm. reduce alcohol and other drug-related www.adf.org.au Bolivian President by chewing... not only is harms among young people. www.febfast.org.nz Evo Morales was a class act thoroughly noxious and Youth Week 21–29 May, Nationwide when he chewed a coca leaf therefore detrimental, but 4th International Conference on Youth Week 2011 will be held once at the 2009 UN High Level also is the cause of racial Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder again in the last week of May. Youth Session on drugs. degeneration... Our studies 2–5 March, Vancouver, Canada Week 2011 is a 9-day week so more He was announcing will confirm the certainty of This conference will provide an weekend days are available for Youth advanced forum for emerging Week fun! Bolivia’s wish to abolish our assertions and we hope we cutting-edge research, policy and www.youthweek.org.nz articles in the 1961 Single can present a rational plan of practice that will assist governments’ Convention on Narcotic action... to attain the absolute service systems, service providers, 5th Annual Conference of the parents and caregivers. Drugs that require countries and sure abolition of this International Society for the www.interprofessional.ubc.ca to eliminate the chewing of pernicious habit.” Study of Drug Policy coca leaves. A 1995 WHO study on 23–24 May, Utrecht, School of Addiction 2011 The Netherlands “If this a drug, you should coca and cocaine concluded 3–5 March, Auckland This conference is hosted by the throw me in jail,” said that the “use of coca leaves Convened by the Drug and Alcohol Trimbos Institute. Its goal is to share Morales. “It has no harmful appears to have no negative Practitioners Association, the School information, findings and methods of Addiction will provide skill-based around drug policy. It will also impact… at all in its natural health effects and has positive workshops on clinical supervision, facilitate collaboration among top state. It causes no mental therapeutic, sacred and social gambling and smoking cessation. international scholars and policy disturbances… and it does functions for indigenous This is a ‘must attend’ training makers who are engaged in drug opportunity for experienced not cause addiction.” Andean populations.” policy analyses pertaining to drug practitioners. markets, the harms caused by both Bolivia’s constitution Morales’ amendment www.dapaanz.org.nz supply and demand for drugs and protects coca as part of the will not get a free ride. Some the intended and unintended country’s cultural heritage. member states, led by the Young People, Risk and Resilience: consequences of drug policy. Morales’ amendment would United States, have lodged The Challenges of Alcohol, Drugs www.trimbos.org remove the obligation to formal objections arguing that and Violence Conference 7–8 March, Melbourne, Australia 6th International AIDS Society prohibit traditional uses of tolerating coca undermines Young people who use alcohol (IAS) Conference on HIV coca, while maintaining the cocaine control. (Ironically, and other drugs are more likely Pathogenesis, Treatment and strict global control system for the US State Department’s to participate in high-risk activities, Prevention including violent and traumatic coca cultivation and cocaine. website recommends coca tea 17–20 July, Rome, Italy incidents such as assaults and This is the world’s largest open Coca leaf has been chewed for altitude sickness, and its committing crimes leading to early scientific conference on HIV/AIDS. and brewed as tea for La Paz embassy has been involvement in the criminal justice Held every 2 years, the conference centuries in the Andean known to serve it to visitors.) system. Effective interventions and attracts about 5,000 delegates from approaches will be discussed to all over the world to help examine, region. It’s a mild stimulant The UN declaration on prevent harm towards young people. explore and inform the global and suppresses hunger, thirst, indigenous peoples, which the www.aic.gov.au response to HIV/AIDS. pain, and fatigue. It helps US endorsed last December, www.ias2011.org overcome altitude sickness guarantees the protection of Harm Reduction 2011 and is sacred within “cultural heritage, traditional Conference Cutting Edge 3–7 April, Beirut, Lebanon 1–2 September, Christchurch indigenous cultures. knowledge and traditional The International Harm Reduction Cutting Edge is the national addiction Yet, the 1961 treaty treats cultural expressions”. Conference has become the treatment sector conference. coca exactly as it does cocaine.

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