Drugs, Young People and the Law

an easy-to-use manual about drug laws and legal processes - the up-to-date English version is available here

Drugs, Young People and the Law answers parents' and young people's questions about drug laws and legal processes as they apply to young people.

The development of the manual was an initiative of the Fairfield Community Drug Action Team (CDAT). It was funded and assisted by the Law Foundation of NSW, Drug Programs Coordination Unit of the NSW Police Service, Burnside Cabramatta and Fairfield Health Services.

The resource has also been translated into 6 community languages - Vietnamese, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Laotian and Khmer.

Hard copies of the resource can be obtained by contacting the Project Manager for the region.

Copies of the resource in Arabic, Chinese and Spanish are available on this site. Some updates have been made to the English version (available below) and the hard-copy versions. Please note, that these updates are not included in the language versions on this site.

To open the English version below, you will need Acrobat Reader. If you don't have this program you can download it from here.

This document is freely available to download and distribute. However, the law is constantly changing and it is recommended that the currency of information is checked.