This week’s New South Wales Drug Summit, held in Sydney over two days, presents a critical opportunity to revolutionise the state’s harmful drug policy. The current approach has failed to deliver positive health outcomes and has reached its use-by date.
The state is on the precipice of meaningful drug and alcohol reform, but we cannot trip at the final hurdle.
My chief concern is that we will see a repeat of the 2020 NSW Ice Inquiry at the Drug Summit whereby the community tells Government the same thing it did four to five years ago. A report is drafted, handed down, but significant change does not occur.
We’ve waited 25 long years for reform. Lives depend on this.
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