News From The Drug War Front Podcast - 1.12.2020

<a href='https://newsfromthedrugwarfrontpodcast.podbean.com/e/news-from-the-drug-war-front-podcast-1882020/'>News From The Drug War Front Podcast - 12.1.2020</a> <p>Aired 10:30am AEST 12.1.2020</p> <p>News From The Drug War Front with Geoff Ward and Marion Watson.</p> <p>Supported by: Canberra Alliance for Harm Minimisation and Advocacy and The Connection.</p> <p>Recorded at: 2xx FM98.3 Community Radio.</p> <p style="font-weight:400;">From 10:30am until noon on Tuesday January 12th there will be a new edition of the radio show “News from the Drug War Front” brought to you by CAHMA, Canberra’s peer-based drug user organisation. </p> <p style="font-weight:400;">- We will discuss the piece “The need to say it nicer: The language we choose when we talk about substance use matters” by Kara Fletcher and “We are all addicts now: a call for compassion” by Gabrielle Carey. </p> <p style="font-weight:400;">-Naomi Watts has recalled the agony of losing her father Peter following his death from a heroin overdose when she was just seven years old.  Speaking to <a href='https://www.vogue.com.au/?utm_source=SEM&utm_medium=cpc&gclid=CjwKCAiAudD_BRBXEiwAudakX9VRA2SorEtz4BayAyX_dRxxIn1ZxqC1i6k1vMuOFVjxH6JMBfQqJhoCWrkQAvD_BwE'>Vogue Australia</a> this month, the 52-year-old confessed that she's still 'grappling' with the tragic loss decades later.  </p> <p style="font-weight:400;">- We will examine the case made by Emma Sheeran in her opinion piece “Should vaping be banned?”  </p> <p style="font-weight:400;">-In international news, take-home Naloxone will be given to people at high risk of accidental drugs overdoses with the aim of reducing the number of drug deaths in Scotland.  </p> <p style="font-weight:400;">- Top Scottish lawyer Iain Smith, of Keegan Smith Defence Solicitors, said removing the criminal element from drug use will help users to be seen as “people who are in pain and in need of help”. Following the news that drug deaths had reached a record high of 1,264 – the worst in Europe – Mr Smith said decriminalis