Patterns of e-cigarette use among a sample of people who regularly use ecstasy and related drugs in Sydney NSW, 2014-2022.

The Ecstasy and Related Drug Reporting System (EDRS) has been monitoring patterns of e-cigarette use and behaviour since 2014. Thus, this bulletin aims examine the past six-month use of any e-cigarettes (prescribed and non-prescribed) among a sample of people who regularly use ecstasy and/or other illicit stimulants in Sydney, NSW, from 2014-2022. This bulletin will also examine the use of e-cigarettes as a smoking cessation tool and the concurrent use of tobacco and e-cigarettes (i.e., ‘dual’ use)

Can Willing Migrant Sex Workers be Real Victims of Human Trafficking? A WPR Analysis of the Australian Modern Slavery Act Inquiry Report.

Using Bacchi’s (2009) What’s a Problem Represented to be? (WPR) methodology, this paper analyses the Hidden in Plain Sight: An Inquiry into Establishing a Modern Slavery Act in Australia Report to examine the deep-seated assumptions, historical ways of thinking, and the silences used to support the contemporary construction of the problem of human trafficking in the Australian sex industry. This paper will also focus on how the Report understands migrant sex workers and their association with trafficking. In doing so, the aim is to destabilise the taken for granted knowledges and truths presented in the Report. Finally, the paper will provide alternative ways of understanding migrant sex workers and trafficking in the sex industry that may broaden all victims’ access to Australia’s human trafficking response, irrespective of the industry they are located in

Experiences of stigma while visiting healthcare services among people who use drugs in Australia, 2022.

This bulletin investigates the experience of stigma while visiting healthcare services among people who regularly inject drugs and people who regularly use ecstasy and/or other stimulants