The Wire with Caeden

The NZ Drug foundation will be on the University of Auckland campus tomorrow between 3pm-7pm, offering their free and confidential drug checking service. 

Drug checking can help reduce risk by providing people with information about what they’re really taking so they can make more informed, and often safer, decisions about their drug use.

95bFM News Director Jessica Hopkins spoke to Harm Reduction Manager, Phil Glaser, who will be running the clinic about the importance of their service, and some concerns they have after their recent clinics during O-Week.

This week on Dear Science Milly and Beth are joined by Joel Rindelaub the day after his birthday to talk all things science! Sleep masks are proven to work in a study exploring human sensitivity to light, then it's out to space where the James Webb telescope has made some more puzzling discoveries: this time it's galaxies that are far bigger than we thought they would be, and finally finishing off with the fact than anyone can be good at maths, we just need good teachers + tutors + working hard. 

This week on the Tuesday Wire, Milly spoke to Professor Tracey McIntosh from the University of Auckland regarding a new paper published from a large study into intimate partner violence. The findings of the paper revealed that intimate partner violence is linked to increased risk of both chronic and mental illness, and with one in three women experiencing intimate partner violence, this highlights a health issue. 

This week on the Tuesday Wire in our weekly catch-up with Dr Shane Reti, Milly explores the recently announced FamilyBoost policy, aimed at helping low to middle income families to provide early childhood care for thier children.