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Unable to find public transport home, Audrey Griffin began a walk that ended in tragedy.

Adrian Torrens had been threatening to kill his ex: Hours later, he would instead kill a complete stranger

Many who live on the Central Coast say one simple, affordable thing could have protected Audrey Griffin.

  • Jordan Baker and Riley Walter

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Nyxoid is a brand of naloxone that is a nasal spray that blocks or reverses the effects of opioid drugs.

Frontline police officers barred from carrying life-saving drug naloxone

At least two Australians die of an opioid-related overdose every day, but Victorian police have been told they are not allowed to carry a free, life-saving antidote.

  • Marta Pascual Juanola
Police said they found the plastic-wrapped drug bricks inside boat engines being delivered from California.

Man charged after 140kg of cocaine ‘found in boat engines’

The 35-year-old appeared in court on Tuesday accused of importing drug bricks into Queensland from the United States.

  • Laine Clark
Abdifatah Ahmed died in the shooting after police said he lunged at them with a knife.

‘How many more people need to be killed?’ Simmering tensions on the streets of Footscray

Two police officers shot a rough sleeper dead on the eve of Easter on a busy Footscray street. Was the tragedy unavoidable?

  • Melissa Cunningham
Police outside the scene where two men, a woman and a teenage boy were found dead.

Michael bought what he thought was cocaine. Two hours later, four people were dead

A coroner has found the four friends died of an overdose of nitazines, synthetic opioids 100 times stronger than heroin.

  • Erin Pearson
Thales’ Blue Sentry has been successfully tested by the US Navy, its CEO will announce on Monday

One Sydney factory’s answer to foreign interference, narco-subs and people smugglers

Designed to work as a “wolf pack”, groups of the semi-autonomous systems can create permanent surveillance of coastlines over thousands of kilometres.

  • Sally Rawsthorne
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The state’s first permanent pill-testing sites will close from April 4.

Pill testers say people will die as Qld service forced to close

The group behind two south-east pill-testing sites said they picked up extremely potent synthetic opioids three times since November – including last Friday.

  • Courtney Kruk
Greens MP Cate Faehrmann says the cost of hiring police for NSW festivals is 12 times that of Victoria.

Police should back off drug users, says report

The final report from NSW Labor’s Drug Summit was published on Thursday.

  • Frances Howe
John Gordon and Emily Berry, the parents of Jetson Gordon.

Half a pill was enough to kill Jetson. Now this drug is infiltrating supply

The teenage apprentice placed an online order for a pill he hoped would help him relax and get to sleep. He never woke up.

  • Marta Pascual Juanola
Ex-Philippine resident Rodrigo Duterte came to office vowing to rid the country of drugs and drug pushers.

For decades, ‘Duterte Harry’ did as he pleased – then police boarded his plane

The former Philippine president may have thought he was too powerful to be arrested over the deaths of thousands of people. He was wrong.

  • Zach Hope

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