HRA Professionals and Community Survey

Every two years Harm Reduction Australia provides an opportunity for people working or associated with drug and alcohol policies and programs the opportunity to have their say on issues affecting the sector and the wider community.

The survey only takes about 3 minutes to complete.

Responses need to be submitted by 31 January 2022 and in keeping with our commitment to transparency, the results will be made publicly available as soon as possible.

Thank you for participating.

Gino Vumbaca OAM
President
Harm Reduction Australia
Demographic Information

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* What is your professional or work category? More than one category can be ticked.

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* Age range?

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* State or Territory - please tick

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* How would you describe the area you live in?

Questions

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* 1.  Do you support greater investment in harm reduction programs and peer based organisations in Australia?

Harm reduction is a person-centred philosophy that aims to reduce the harms associated with drug use. Peer based organisations are community-based organisations staffed and governed by people with lived/living experience of drug use.

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* 2. Do you support pill testing programs at music events and fixed sites?

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* 3.  Do you support the establishment of drug consumption rooms, including Supervised Injecting Facilities, where there is a demonstrated community need for these facilities?

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* 4. Do you support broader and free access to take home naloxone for people and family/friends of people who use heroin/other opioids?

Naloxone is a drug that temporarily reverses opioid overdoses.

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* 5.  Do you support the establishment of needle and syringe programs in prisons?

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* 6.  Do you support the introduction of prescribed heroin (also known as heroin assisted treatment)?

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* 7.  Do you understand the system for people to access medicinal cannabis?

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* 8. Do you support the continued prohibition of any of these drugs? (More than one drug can be ticked.)

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* 9.  Which of these currently illicit drugs do you support being decriminalised for personal use? More than one drug can be ticked.

Decriminalisation is the removal of criminal sanctions for the personal use of drugs.

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* 10.  Do you support the establishment of a public early warning system to alert people to drug-related events of concern?

An early warning system is where information on drug-related events of concern from people who use drugs, health and law enforcement can be quickly shared to the public. Information could be related to overdoses due to high potency or other side effects and is made available online and via social media.

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* 11.  Do you support Managed Alcohol Programs?

These are services where a supervised maintenance dose of alcohol is provided to chronic homeless alcohol dependent people.

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* 12.  Do you support the availability of e-cigarettes as a harm reduction measure?

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* 13.  Do you support workplace drug and alcohol testing for the following? (More than one response can be provided.)

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* 14.  Do you support roadside drug testing programs that are to designed to measure the level of impairment rather than simply test for the presence of a drug?

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* 15.  Are there any other drug policy issues that you would like to see being addressed?

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