NEWS | ISSUE FOUR/20 | RONGO Ā / DRUGS Written by Liam Hansen they/them | @liamhanse.n | Associate Editor One in seventeen people live with rare disorders in Aotearoa - a catch all term for the thousands of specified health conditions that, on their own, affect a small handful of Kiwis that are left without a unified health organisation to provide them with support, care, and community. Rare Disorders New Zealand fills this gap, fighting for over 300,000 Kiwis through educat

NEWS | ISSUE FOUR/20 | RONGO Ā / DRUGS Written by Liam Hansen they/them | @liamhanse.n | Associate Editor Student presidents and representatives of various university student associations across the motu have united in their call for targeted student support amidst the cost-of-living crisis. While students have been struggling to stay afloat since the economic ramifications of the pandemic (and a good bit before then), the recent increase in fuel prices due to the US/Israel

EDITORIAL | ISSUE FOUR/20 | RONGO Ā / DRUGS Written by Tashi Donnelly she/her | @tashi_rd | Editor Nau mai haere mai, welcome to the rongoā/drugs issue of Debate . Although the word ‘drug’ is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as ‘a medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body ’ , we tend to associate it more with recreational use than with medical use. But before we get into it, I want to take this opportunity