How new law saved taxpayers 300,000
A new report has found the NSW Government saved more than $300,000 in six months by taking a different approach to drug possession.
Drugs
20,000 drug capsules turns Anna Wood into art
An Australian artist who created a portrait of overdose victim Anna Wood using 20,000 empty pill casings has been flooded with personal stories from young people who have lost friends, siblings and parents to drugs.
Drug education video your kids need to watch
GRAPHIC WARNING — Explicit language and simulated drug-taking: Just exactly what happens to a young person both mentally and physically when they take drugs? This is The Ripple Effect: Part One — a confronting video series that answers those questions through the eyes of young Australians. WATCH NOW.
Ex’s tragic letter to lost girlfriend
The high school sweethearts had just broken up when Alex made a fatal decision. The devastating impact is still being felt almost a year on.
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Captain Rewind is the master of lifesaving hindsight
GRAPHIC WARNING — Explicit language and simulated drug-taking: How to recognise a drug overdose and what to do. This is The Ripple Effect: Part Two — a confronting educational video series for teenagers that answers those questions. WATCH NOW.
How Jazza made Part 2 of the MDMA education video series
The screen is green and reality suspended in Part Two of The Ripple Effect drug education video series produced by YouTube star Josiah “Jazza” Brooks. Go behind the scenes to see how Jazza created the second part of The Ripple Effect videos.
Festival promoters: ‘No magic button to stop MDMA’
As the summer music festival season kicks off today, promoters tell The Ripple Effect they are doing everything they can to keep festivalgoers safe — bar from actually being able to stop them taking MDMA and other party drugs.
New app helps find mates lost or in trouble at music festivals
A new GPS tracking app has been created to help reunite friends separated at music festivals or parties, It’s also fitted with an alert button to directly call emergency services or friends when assistance is required.
Dad tells of Falls Festival drug increase
After repeated visits to the Falls Festival to supervise his various children, Mike Radburn says he is worried about drugs at the event.
Faces of a tragedy: Generation lost to MDMA overdoses
Eighteen young Australians, all in the prime of their lives, all went to Australian music festivals to have a great time. All didn’t come home. The ripples of anguish of these young lives lost will be felt forever by those who loved them.
MDMA shock campaign ditched by NSW Health
NSW Health has ditched their hard-hitting campaign on MDMA and other party pills in favour of a “non-judgmental” one called StayOK after festivalgoers told researchers “fear campaigns” did not work.
‘It’s a pretty ugly supply chain to put it mildly’
It’s a drug lauded by users as inducing feelings of love and euphoria. But behind every MDMA pill is an ugly ‘shadow world’ of crime and exploitation that users unwittingly support.
56 damning pictures of how party drugs destroy the environment
Young Australians who take illicit drugs — or those defending their use — are seemingly oblivious to the damage the drugs cooks are doing to the environment. See the damage for yourself.
1 drug. 4 dead kids. 4 mums lost to a life of sorrow
After headlines, funerals and coronial inquests fade, the devastated loved ones of those claimed by MDMA overdoses at music festivals are left trying to make sense of their loss. Four mothers bound by grief share their stories ahead of another long, hot summer of music festivals.
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