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Overdoses in Victoria have reached a ten-year-high.

‘Grave fears’: Overdose deaths reach 10-year high in Victoria

Hundreds of Victorians died by overdosing last year, according to a new report, which support services say should be a watershed for the state’s drug policy.

  • Marta Pascual Juanola

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Carmel Tebbutt, Michael Doyle and Ryan Park at the drug summit. 

Anger, frustration and revolt: Inside the final day of NSW’s drug summit

As the drug summit unfolded, it became dominated by the one topic the government wanted off the table: decriminalisation.

  • Michael McGowan and Angus Thomson
Dale Cranswick (composite image)

This Perth man had an $800 a week drug habit. He thought going to his GP would help

For about six years, Dale Cranswick used drugs to get through the stress of being a chef at a busy restaurant. Then he found the answer. Or so he thought.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
‘I have watched a 12-year-old girl inject directly into her arm’, former police officer Bob Gee says as he explains 83 per cent of persistent youth offenders have used ice or methylamphetamines.

More than 80 per cent of serious young offenders are addicted to ‘ice’

“I have watched a 12-year-old girl directly inject meth into her arm,” the Department of Youth Justice director-general said.

  • Tony Moore
Police looking for illicit drugs at Future Music Festival use Passive Alert Detection (PAD) dogs to scan the 50,000 plus crowd which flocked to Flemington Racecourse . 10th March 2013. Photo by Jason South. Police looking for illicit drugs at Future Music Festival use Passive Alert Detection (PAD) dogs to scan the 50,000 plus crowd which flocked to Flemington Racecourse . 10th March 2013. Photo by Jason South. Created by: Jason South JPS

Waiting for a crisis: Fears as NSW enters festival season without drug reform

NSW Police have confirmed drug detection dogs will be used at festivals as part of a “high-visibility police operation”.

  • Amber Schultz
Experts are arguing about how much the escalating methamphetamine problem in Afghanistan is due to the hravest of ephrine.

The wild, green shrub in Afghanistan that is dividing drug experts

Researchers were left scratching their heads this week after a UN report raised the alarm about the surging manufacture of crystal meth in Afghanistan.

  • Lucy Cormack
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Ice use declined in Queensland early in the pandemic but has since rebounded.

Queenslanders can’t break the ice, wastewater report finds

The use of illicit drugs has fallen across the state, with one exception – methylamphetamine, the latest wastewater data shows.

  • Stuart Layt
Dr Marianne Jauncey says the ice inquiry ‘called a spade a spade’.

After a lockdown delivering the vaccine, drug services wait for inquiry response

A return to normality is a return to the same problems with drug and alcohol services in the state, as services ask how long the state government can sit on the ice inquiry.

  • Mary Ward
“I was yearning for my own spark, one that would penetrate through my feeling that the world was broken”

Confronted over his addiction, my brother exploded in rage

As Nick Kilner’s big brother spiralled deeper into drug abuse in a regional town, the tragic path would teach the younger sibling how to live.

  • Nick Kilner
The NSW government commissioned an inquiry into the drug ‘ice’ but has completely ignored its findings.

Premier Perrottet, this could be your first act of political courage

The NSW government commissioned a special inquiry into the drug ‘ice’ but has all but ignored its findings for 20 months. The new Premier now has an opportunity to lead on this critical issue.

  • Dan Howard

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