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20/10/2026: CAHMA is proud to present our Under the Hood advocacy Project. This is our first episode “History of CAHMA”
The Under the Hood Advocacy Project, produced by Conor Ashleigh Photography showcases CAHMA’s history, our community development and livelihood approach as well as our services responding to community need. Conor, an amazing, passionate, peer videographer is dedicated to sharing the work that community groups like CAHMA does with the world. Over the next few months we will share 5 short videos and 5 audio podcasts talking about CAHMA’s History, Naloxone and Opioid Overdose Reversal, The Community Development Program, the Peer Treatment Support Service and CAHMA’s Outreach BBQs and Material Aid programs. Come with us on a journey to find out more about the work we do at CAHMA serving our wonderful community and the amazing community members that make it all a reality.
23/04/2026: CAHMA’s Chris Gough speaks to ABC Radio Canberra about a crisis unfolding for people who use Opioid Maintenance Treatment through the Tuggeranong Family Medical Practice.
CAHMA’s Louise Hughes featured in ABC News coverage of the 30th annual FFDLR Remembrance Day Ceremony – 28/10/25
CAHMA’s Louise Hughes featured in Win News Canberra coverage of the 30th annual FFDLR Remembrance Day Ceremony – 28/10/25
- CAHMA Media Statement – Mr Felipe Alvarez Coronial Inquest Report (4th August 2026)
- ATODA Media Release 28 May 2026 – Drug Decriminalisation in the ACT
- It’s Your Right – implementation and outcomes of a co-designed national Australian hepatitis C health promotion campaign – CAHMA co-author Chris Gough.
- CAHMA releases Australian first Peer Treatment Support Service Model of Care (Article / DL)
- New ACT framework strengthens peer-led drug treatment support (Canberra Daily)
- Strengthening peer-led support for people accessing drug treatment in the ACT (ACT Health)
- AUDIO: Calls for a NSP in Canberra’s Prison – ABC Radio Canberra – (Interview starts 2hrs:05)
- ACT ‘beginning to see change’ two years on from the introduction of drug decriminalisation laws
- CAHMA MEDIA RELEASE: Harm Reduction Saves Lives – And Makes Economic Sense
- VIDEO: The Empathy Project (CAHMA x UTS)
- Patients stranded as Canberra bulk-billing clinic closes
- PUBLISHED WORK: Transforming Alcohol and Other Drug Education Through Co-Design – CAHMA co-author Chris Gough.
- AUDIO: Could a fentanyl crisis hit Australia? Hack, Triple J (Starts 13:05)
- Australian demand for overdose drug naloxone more than doubles after spike in synthetic opioid deaths
- Calls for permanent Canberra drug testing service after deadly fentanyl detected for first time
- PUBLISHED WORK: Ageing disgracefully with Jude Byrne: A special section recognising her life and work – CAHMA co-authors Chris Gough & Geoff Ward
- Safe injecting rooms back on the agenda, 25 years after they were first proposed
- ACT Budget: CanTEST drug checking site to stay open until at least mid-2027 but no extended hours
- More potent than fentanyl: Canberrans urged to watch out for dangerous synthetic opioid nitazene
- Pill testing finds meth inside counterfeit online diet capsule
- CanTEST secures 18 months of funding as community trust in pill testing service grows
- Discovery of new ‘psychoactive substances’ highlights ‘huge’ public health potential of drug checking
- Canberrans could be fined up to $32,000 for possession of e-cigarettes under Government vaping crackdown
- Detection of highly potent opioid in MDMA prompts emergency warnings and renewed calls for pill testing
- PUBLISHED WORK: Exploring patient experiences with depot buprenorphine and their motivations to discontinue – CAHMA co-author Chris Gough
- New drug decriminalisation laws are now in effect in the ACT – here’s what they mean
- AUDIO: International Overdose Awareness Day 2023 Special -3CR Melbourne
- PUBLISHED WORK: Involvement of people who use alcohol and other drug services in the development of patient-reported measures of experience: A scoping review – CAHMA co-author Chris Gough
- What did Australia’s first drug-checking site CanTEST find in its inaugural year?
- A haven for ‘drug tourism’ or beacon of hope? The rhetoric around decriminalisation in the ACT
- MEDIA RELEASE: CAHMA celebrates ACT Drug Decriminalisation Bill 2022 passing into law
- The ACT is decriminalising small amounts of illicit drugs in a move to treat addiction as a health issue. How will that help users?
- What will the ACT’s new drug decriminalisation laws actually mean?
- Grieving families and friends gather to mourn overdose deaths as ACT prepares for new drug laws
- Demand so high for Canberra’s pill-testing service that 27 people were turned away ahead of Spilt Milk music festival
- A peer’s guide to the ACT pill testing service – By one of its creators, Chris Gough, Executive Director of CAHMA
- Pill testing has arrived in the ACT. Is it a sign of changing attitudes towards drugs?
- MEDIA RELEASE: Hep C Point-of-Care Testing to launch in Canberra
- PUBLISHED WORK: An overview of take-home naloxone programs in Australia – CAHMA co-author Chris Gough
- MEDIA RELEASE: CAHMA welcomes expanded access to naloxone across the country
- Drug testing at Australian festivals may have prevented deaths, new study finds
- Pill testing centre a ‘revelation’ with unstudied substances found during second month
- VIDEO: Inside Australia’s first pill-testing clinic
- AUDIO: How will proposed decriminalisation changes impact on people with drug problems, their families and the ACT community?
- MEDIA RELEASE: Not so groovin’ – Pill testing cancellation leaves young people at risk
- THIS HUSH-HUSH ATMOSPHERE HAS TO END
- MEDIA RELEASE: Community sector welcomes government commitment to drug law reform
- An opioid reversal program has saved dozens of Canberrans. Now there are calls to roll it out to families across Australia
- PUBLISHED WORK: Vale Jude Byrne – CAHMA co-authors Chris Gough & Geoff Ward
- ‘Basic human rights denied’, Condamine Court residents forced to detox following delayed response
- Should drug laws aim to punish or rehabilitate?
- Supervised drug injecting room still years away in the ACT
- ACT takes step towards wiping out hepatitis C with new testing clinic
- Canberra’s overdose training program saving opioid users lives four years on
- PUBLISHED WORK: The feasibility of a drug consumption room in the Australian Capital Territory – CAHMA co-author Chris Gough
- Australia’s drug laws are preventing people from seeking help for addiction
- My Choice – the importance of choice in drug treatment
- The Nightmare of Modern Addiction
- The price of drug-testing welfare recipients: ‘Pushing people to utter desperation’
- Services looks to help fill absence of drug support services in Belconnen
- Australia, ACT once again on an upward epidemic curve of opioid, heroin overdose
- Drug users left without out of hours clean needle and syringe option
- Is PrEP a realistic and ethical intervention for people who inject drugs?