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The Northern Territory Police is investigating allegations hundreds of thousands of dollars has been misappropriated from one of the Territory's most important alcohol rehabilitation programs.
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The ‘Not Our Way’ campaign includes this video which focuses on the effects of methylamphetamine abuse.
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| UpdatedA drug used to treat heroin overdoses, which currently costs about $100 to buy over the counter, will be subsidised by the Victorian Government for drug users and families who struggle to afford it.
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| UpdatedQueensland children in residential care are being given medication to control their behaviour, without appropriate diagnosis and parental consent, the state's Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) says.
Topics: child-health-and-behaviour, health, public-sector, government-and-politics, drug-use, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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| UpdatedIce has been called the most dangerous and destructive drug of our time. But what exactly does it do to your body?
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| UpdatedAyelet Waldman spent her life struggling with debilitating mood swings, anger and depression. Then she discovered LSD.
Topics: drug-use, mental-health, health, drugs-and-substance-abuse, community-and-society, united-states
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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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| 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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"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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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.
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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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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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The death of a 22-year-old at the Rainbow Serpent music festival in regional Victoria reignites calls for drug reform in the state.
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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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| UpdatedPolice are investigate the death of a young western Sydney girl from a suspected overdose of methadone — the substance used to treat heroin addicts.
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| UpdatedSome 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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| UpdatedA 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.
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| UpdatedIt 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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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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| 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.
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| UpdatedA 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.
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