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A survivor of a police raid that killed four other drug suspects asks the Supreme Court to stop such operations and help him obtain police records to prove his innocence in a test case against the President's bloody crackdown.
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A man who beat his partner to death with a metal pole and left her body in a car park storeroom is sentenced to at least 20 years in jail.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, domestic-violence, drugs-and-substance-abuse, sa, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedMethamphetamine use continues to rise across Adelaide, with sewage analysis showing a 25 per cent jump in the past year and a tripling over five years.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, community-and-society, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, university-of-south-australia-5000, sa
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| UpdatedPolice are investigate the death of a young western Sydney girl from a suspected overdose of methadone — the substance used to treat heroin addicts.
Topics: crime, health, drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-use, drug-offences, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, quakers-hill-2763
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The NRL future of Wests Tigers forward Kyle Lovett is in limbo after being charged with drug offences.
Topics: nrl, rugby-league, sport, drugs-and-substance-abuse, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedDrug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman appears in a US court after his surprise extradition from Mexico and pleads not guilty to charges that he ran the world's largest drug-trafficking organisation.
Topics: drug-offences, drugs-and-substance-abuse, law-crime-and-justice, united-states, mexico
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Mayor John Bowler says Liquorland and BWS outlets in Kalgoorlie CBD are serving alcohol to itinerants responsible for street violence.
Topics: alcohol, drugs-and-substance-abuse, law-crime-and-justice, kalgoorlie-6430
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The NRL says its education process is not to blame for the latest controversy to hit the game.
Topics: nrl, rugby-league, sport, doping-in-sports, drugs-and-substance-abuse, community-and-society, australia
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| UpdatedPolice arrest six more men in Melbourne and Queensland in connection to a major cocaine seizure in international waters off Tasmania last month.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, community-and-society, police, crime, melbourne-3000, hobart-7000, tas, qld
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A routine car search by Limestone Coast police has led to an investigation into whether south-east drug users are using Australia Post as a courier service to send and receive illegal drugs.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-offences, police, law-crime-and-justice, beachport-5280, millicent-5280
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| UpdatedA man is jailed after pleading guility to charges relating to the operation of an elaborate hydroponic cannabis grow house at Morwell, in Victoria's Latrobe Valley.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, drugs-and-substance-abuse, cannabis, crime, morwell-3840
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| UpdatedPolice are investigating whether a bad batch of illicit drugs distributed in and around Melbourne's Chapel Street precinct is responsible for a man's death and more than 20 hospitalisations this weekend.
Topics: community-and-society, drugs-and-substance-abuse, police, crime, health, drug-use, south-yarra-3141
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Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, education, drug-education, health, drug-use, rehabilitation, terranora-2486, lismore-2480
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Topics: community-and-society, drugs-and-substance-abuse, education, drug-education, health, drug-use, law-crime-and-justice, crime, drug-offences, rehabilitation, terranora-2486
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Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, education, drug-education, health, drug-use, law-crime-and-justice, crime, drug-offences, terranora-2486
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Drug addicts speak about their rehabilitation success at Victory House.
Topics: community-and-society, drugs-and-substance-abuse, education, drug-education, health, drug-use, law-crime-and-justice, crime, drug-offences, rehabilitation, terranora-2486, lismore-2480, sydney-2000
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Topics: community-and-society, drugs-and-substance-abuse, education, drug-education, health, drug-use, law-crime-and-justice, crime, drug-offences, rehabilitation, terranora-2486
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Victory House, home to 14 drug addicts, is a hilltop mansion with sweeping ocean views that has seen success treating drug addicts in an intensive rehabilitation program.
Topics: rehabilitation, drugs-and-substance-abuse, community-and-society, education, drug-education, health, drug-use, law-crime-and-justice, crime, drug-offences, terranora-2486, tweed-heads-2485, lismore-2480, sydney-2000
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The largest study of methamphetamine use undertaken in Victoria will focus on the path to drug dependence and access to health services.
Topics: drug-use, drugs-and-substance-abuse, moe-3825
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| UpdatedPolice seize hundreds of kilograms of pure pseudoephedrine, a key ingredient in manufacturing ice, and charge five men with drug importation after a bust in Melbourne.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, community-and-society, drug-offences, crime, law-crime-and-justice, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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To his critics, nothing former Essendon coach and star player James Hird says or does will ever be enough.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, doping-in-sports, drugs-and-substance-abuse, community-and-society, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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| UpdatedAn Adelaide woman who gives away cannabis oil products to the sick and terminally ill for free has been reported for drug offences after police raided her home, her lawyer says.
Topics: drug-offences, crime, law-crime-and-justice, drugs-and-substance-abuse, community-and-society, drug-use, health, hillier-5116, adelaide-5000, wollongong-2500, sa
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Researchers warn Australia is in the midst of a synthetic drug explosion, and authorities must drastically re-think the way the dangerous substances are policed.
Topics: drug-offences, crime, law-crime-and-justice, drug-use, health, drug-education, drugs-and-substance-abuse, community-and-society, qld
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As "an enormous unofficial experiment in illicit drugs" unfolds, police and researchers have very different approaches to responding to the dangers of the new synthetic drugs that arrive on the market every week.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-offences, australia