Drug Use
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'Ice epidemic' coverage creating unnecessary fear, expert says
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"There is no ice epidemic, that is absolutely clear." Dr Nicole Lee challenges the media's coverage of the drug's usage in Australia.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-education, drug-use, drug-offences, mental-health, human-interest, adelaide-5000
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SA ice taskforce to tackle drug 'literally tearing families and communities apart'
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Tougher laws, more drug-driving tests and greater search powers for police are all options on the table as South Australia sets up a taskforce to urgently tackle growing use of the drug ice.
Topics: states-and-territories, government-and-politics, drug-offences, drug-use, health, drugs-and-substance-abuse, community-and-society, sa
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Victoria rejects call for forced drug treatment for vulnerable children
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The Victorian Government rejected a report it commissioned which recommended the introduction of compulsory mental health and drug treatment for vulnerable children in the strife-torn child protection and youth justice systems.
Topics: youth, drug-offences, crime, law-crime-and-justice, drug-use, health, drugs-and-substance-abuse, community-and-society, state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, vic, melbourne-3000
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Anti-inflammatories 'no better than placebo' for back pain
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Popular anti-inflammatory drugs, such as ibuprofen, have little impact on lower back and neck pain, an Australian study finds.
Topics: health, pain, back-pain, drug-use, community-and-society, australia
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More calls for pill testing after festival death
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The death of a 22-year-old at the Rainbow Serpent music festival in regional Victoria reignites calls for drug reform in the state.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-education, drug-use, drug-offences, police
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Duterte's drug crackdown faces court challenge
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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.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-offences, drug-use, laws, rights, philippines, korea-republic-of
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Girl, 5, dies from suspected methadone overdose
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Police 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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Topics: epilepsy, diseases-and-disorders, health, drug-use, australia
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Topics: epilepsy, diseases-and-disorders, health, drug-use, australia
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New campaign demands better access to medicinal cannabis
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Some of Australia's most high-profile medicinal cannabis advocates band together to launch a new campaign for better access to the drug, saying current legislation is leaving those needing it facing a "catastrophic event".
Topics: health, drug-use, laws, law-crime-and-justice, diseases-and-disorders, epilepsy, federal-government, government-and-politics, australia
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'Callous' man jailed for stealing credit cards from dying crash victim
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A man who left police "shocked and disgusted" is jailed for six months after stealing credit cards from the dying victim of a car crash in southern Queensland.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, fraud-and-corporate-crime, prisons-and-punishment, police, drug-use, drug-offences, crime, hervey-bay-4655, qld
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Unknown long-term effects of medicinal cannabis cause for concern: AMA
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It is likely some GPs will refuse to dispense medicinal cannabis when the drug becomes legal in Queensland, the Australian Medical Association's state president says.
Topics: cannabis, drug-use, health, state-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, laws, activism-and-lobbying, law-crime-and-justice, brisbane-4000, qld
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Medicinal cannabis 'out of reach' for Queensland families
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A Brisbane father whose daughter suffers from terminal illness and has regular seizures says the state's new laws to legalise medicinal cannabis may not work.
Topics: cannabis, drug-use, health, laws, law-crime-and-justice, state-parliament, activism-and-lobbying, government-and-politics, brisbane-4000, qld
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Police fear bad batch of MDMA linked to man's death, 20 hospitalisations
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Police 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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Cannabis industry's economic benefits for SA to be explored
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A roundtable to examine the potential to establish industrial hemp and medicinal cannabis industries in South Australia will be held at the end of the month.
Topics: cannabis, drug-use, health, states-and-territories, state-parliament, government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000, sa
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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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Victories over addiction run from a coastal mansion
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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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Why does alcohol make you hungry? Blame biology
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New research finds that eating junk food while drunk could be driven by the effect alcohol has on a small region of the brain.
Topics: alcohol, drug-use, health, medical-research, research, science-and-technology, australia
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Statewide health study to investigate meth drug use
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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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Queensland's medicinal cannabis advocates plea for access to drug
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Medicinal cannabis advocates are pleading for compassion and urging Australian authorities to legalise the drug to help ease the pain and suffering of those who desperately need it.
Topics: drug-education, community-and-society, health, drug-use, drug-offences, diseases-and-disorders, qld
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