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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
- 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?