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Julian Buchanan DipSW, MA, PhD

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Effective Practice in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice: A Partnership Approach

Effective Practice in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice: A Partnership Approach

This book explores how a partnership approach can tackle various societal issues.

2008

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Beyond the Addict-Addiction Paradigm

Addiction and the ‘addict’ are heavy laden concepts rooted in a highly contested brain disease model. A model that demands total abstinence…

Nov 18, 2023

Beyond the Addict-Addiction Paradigm

Nov 18, 2023

Drug Law Reform Shafted: Prohibition 2.0 (part four)

Following on from part one, two and three Núria Calzada continues her conversation with retired Professor Julian Buchanan in New Zealand…

Jul 17, 2023

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Jul 17, 2023

Lessons from NZ PSA2013 and the Failed Cannabis Referendum (part three)

Following on from part one and two Núria Calzada continues her conversation with retired Professor Julian Buchanan in New Zealand, they…

Jul 17, 2023

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Jul 17, 2023

From Abstinence to Risk Reduction (part two)

Following on from part one Núria Calzada continues her conversation with retired Professor Julian Buchanan in New Zealand, they explore the…

Jul 17, 2023

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Jul 17, 2023

The Journey of the Retired Activist Against Prohibition 2.0 (part one)

Núria Calzada is in conversation with retired Professor Julian Buchanan in Aotearoa New Zealand, in part one they explore his childhood…

Jul 17, 2023

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Jul 17, 2023

Drug Prohibition: Lies, damned lies and semantics.

Our favourite drug — excluded from the war on drugs

May 26, 2023

Drug Prohibition: Lies, damned lies and semantics.

May 26, 2023

Our children deserve better: Our drug laws put them at risk

There are more than enough uncertainties in the world, these are indeed tough times to be growing up. Our children face so many issues and…

Jul 21, 2022

Excited children running over sand dunes to reach the beach

Jul 21, 2022

New Zealand Drug Policy 2010–2020: How did a country poised for world leading reform deliver a…

At the beginning of the decade the New Zealand Law Commission delivered a comprehensive and authoritative 350 page report reviewing New…

Dec 1, 2020

New Zealand Drug Policy 2010–2020: How did a country poised for world leading reform deliver a…

Dec 1, 2020

We are not voting on the pros and cons of cannabis — but the pros and cons of prohibition.

It would be easy to imagine the cannabis referendum hinges on whether or not we think cannabis should be introduced to New Zealand, but…

Oct 6, 2020

We are not voting on the pros and cons of cannabis — but the pros and cons of prohibition.

Oct 6, 2020

With an evidence-based human rights approach - we can end this crazy drug war — once and for all

Every system of oppression is sustained by misinformation, propaganda and misrepresentation which serves to prevent people from realising…

Dec 3, 2018

With an evidence-based human rights approach - we can end this crazy drug war — once and for all

Dec 3, 2018

Julian Buchanan DipSW, MA, PhD

Julian Buchanan DipSW, MA, PhD

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Retired Professor, international expert in drug policy, researcher, public speaker, writer and ex UN advisor.

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