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The Philippine army will create a battalion-sized task force to help the government's anti-narcotics agency run after high-level targets in President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs, the country's military chief says.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-offences, law-crime-and-justice, army, philippines, asia
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More than 20 people have been taken to hospital, many in a critical condition, after overdosing on drugs at the Electric Parade Music Festival.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-use, drug-offences, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedPolice say a man and two boys who allegedly killed eight emu chicks in a South Australian national park were cultivating cannabis at two locations in the park.
Topics: animal-welfare, law-crime-and-justice, drug-offences, port-lincoln-5606
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| UpdatedA mortgage broker and a property developer are among the four men charged with more than 650 offences over an alleged Hells Angels-linked cocaine and ice operation on the Gold Coast.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, drug-offences, southport-4215
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| UpdatedA Hong Kong man caught with 315 kilograms of methylamphetamine in Perth was recruited in a billiards hall and sent "over the trenches first" by a "sophisticated" drug ring most likely run out of China, a court hears.
Topics: drug-offences, drugs-and-substance-abuse, courts-and-trials, police, perth-6000, wa, canning-vale-6155, south-hedland-6722
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| UpdatedA potentially lethal drug that can "bring down elephants" and is 10,000 times more potent than morphine is discovered at a Brisbane mail centre, sparking urgent police warnings.
Topics: drug-offences, crime, drug-use, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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| UpdatedA parolee who murdered a Victorian jeweller while high on drugs during a botched robbery in 2013 would not be released under changes to the parole system, an inquest hears.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, judges-and-legal-profession, courts-and-trials, drug-offences, hastings-3915, vic
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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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| UpdatedThe brother of missing WA teenager Hayley Dodd and the son of One Nation candidate Margaret Dodd sent more than 100 threatening and abusive text messages to the mother of his three children, a court hears.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, drug-offences, wa
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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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| UpdatedThe Trump administration decrees sanctions against Venezuelan Vice-President Tareck El Aissami, accusing him of playing a major role in international drug trafficking.
Topics: drug-offences, law-crime-and-justice, venezuela, united-states
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| UpdatedThe 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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A jury is discharged after a Hong Kong national admits his role in a drug operation that led to WA's largest methylamphetamine seizure.
Topics: courts-and-trials, drug-offences, perth-6000, south-hedland-6722
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| UpdatedA Tasmanian man charged over one of the state's largest ever drug seizures sold pot to fund his retirement, the Burnie Supreme Court hears.
Topics: drug-offences, crime, lileah-7330
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| UpdatedFour men are charged for allegedly importing cocaine and methamphetamines worth an estimated $186 million after authorities use an X-ray machine to discover the drugs hidden in heavy mining equipment.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, drug-offences, crime, melbourne-3000, sydney-2000, oakleigh-south-3167, gosford-2250, watanobbi-2259
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| UpdatedA Buddhist monk is arrested in Myanmar after a grenade, ammunition and more than four million methamphetamine pills are found by authorities in his car and in his monastery.
Topics: drug-offences, other-religions, burma, asia
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| UpdatedA Hong Kong man was smuggled into Western Australia on a boat from China to look after hundreds of kilograms of methylamphetamine and more than $1 million in cash, Perth District Court hears.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, law-crime-and-justice, drug-offences, perth-6000, wa, hong-kong
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| UpdatedSix people are charged over the country's biggest cocaine haul, which was discovered when authorities intercepted a yacht off the New South Wales coast.
Topics: drug-offences, law-crime-and-justice, police, nsw
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Australian Federal Police have charged six people after the agency uncovered a "significant" haul of cocaine stashed in a yacht.
Topics: drug-offences, australia
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| UpdatedPointing to what he says is a "meth crisis" in WA, shadow attorney-general John Quigley says Labor will "cut the head off the snake" if it wins next month's state election.
Topics: drug-offences, elections, government-and-politics, wa
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NSW Police make an early morning raid on a suspected drug lab at a residence in Sydney’s west as part of the ABC TV documentary "Ice Wars".
Topics: drug-offences, law-crime-and-justice, crime, police, sydney-2000, nsw
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NSW Police raid a house in Sydney's west they suspect to be a drug lab, as part of the ABC TV documentary series "Ice Wars".
Topics: drug-offences, law-crime-and-justice, crime, broadcasting, abc, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedA wave of drug-related killings in the Philippines appears to be "systematic, planned and organised" by authorities and could constitute crimes against humanity, according to an Amnesty International report.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, law-crime-and-justice, drug-offences, police, philippines, asia
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A 45-year-old receptionist smuggled ice into Tasmania because she was struggling to pay her mortgage repayments after her divorce, a Hobart court is told.
Topics: drug-offences, crime, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, sandy-bay-7005, hobart-7000
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| UpdatedThe Northern Territory Government promises to introduce legislation this year to help police in their efforts to crack down on outlaw motorcycle gangs, after a spike in criminal behaviour.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, state-parliament, alp, states-and-territories, law-crime-and-justice, antisocial-behaviour, crime, drug-offences, crime-prevention, nt, darwin-0800