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The ‘Not Our Way’ campaign includes this video which focuses on the effects of methylamphetamine abuse.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, health, addictive, drug-use, police, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, nsw
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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.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, community-and-society, drug-use, addictive, states-and-territories, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedSocial media monitoring apps targeting programs such as Facebook and Instagram reveal alarming habitual behaviour and extreme levels of smart phone use.
Topics: social-media, addictive, mental-health, education, wollongong-2500
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| UpdatedJanet Inyika, who led the fight to introduce Opal fuel as petrol sniffing devastated her beloved Aboriginal communities, reflects on her triumphant campaign directed at the Federal Government.
Topics: health, adolescent-health, drug-use, addictive, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedFrom binge drinking on weekends and having her stomach pumped, before fronting up to work on a Monday, former Weekend Sunrise newsreader Talitha Cummins reveals how her "unstoppable need" for alcohol almost cost her her career.
Topics: alcohol, relationships, work, addictive, australia
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Pharmacists push for a real-time database that records and shares the details of those who have accessed codeine with other chemists to prevent addicts from "pharmacy shopping".
Topics: addictive, medical-research, vic, australia
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Joanna Noonan watches Banyan House residents speak to her cast of Secrets.
Topics: addictive, drug-use, drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-education, dance, theatre, darwin-0800
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Macon Riley rehearsing for the stage production Secrets in Darwin.
Topics: addictive, drug-use, drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-education, dance, theatre, darwin-0800
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Rehearsal of the Darwin play Secrets about use of the drug ice.
Topics: addictive, drug-use, drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-education, dance, theatre, darwin-0800
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Secrets creative director Joanna Noonan at rehearsals of her production about the drug ice.
Topics: addictive, drug-use, drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-education, dance, theatre, darwin-0800
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The character of Jake smoking the drug ice at a performance of Darwin play Secrets.
Topics: addictive, drug-use, drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-education, dance, theatre, darwin-0800
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The character of Jake smoking marijuana at a performance of Darwin play Secrets.
Topics: addictive, drug-use, drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-education, dance, theatre, darwin-0800
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A University of Melbourne researcher aims to help people with eating disorders by studying the brains of electronic dance music fans.
Topics: neuroscience, electronic, research, addictive, autism-spectrum-disorder, eating-disorders, melbourne-3000
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Topics: smoking, addictive, budget, health-policy, townsville-4810, mount-isa-4825
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| UpdatedA specialist in painkiller addiction, due to meet Prince the day after he died, believed he was on a lifesaving mission but arrived too late, a lawyer for the doctor reveals.
Topics: music, death, addictive, united-states
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The Labor Party's endorsed candidate for the federal seat of Durack says she will not be a "sheep" by toeing the party line and supporting the Commonwealth Government's cashless welfare card.
Topics: welfare, addictive, gambling, alcohol, geraldton-6530
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A Sunshine Coast hypnotherapist has written to the Turnbull Government calling for research into a controversial alternative treatment to combat drug addiction.
Topics: medical-research, addictive, maroochydore-4558
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Will MacGregor is the Northern Territory Australian of the Year and finalist for the national award. He's been helping young people battling drug and alcohol addictions in the Territory.
Topics: addictive, health, alcohol, people, australia, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedBetel nut is the fourth most used drug in the world after caffeine, alcohol and tobacco with an estimated 600 million users.
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| UpdatedWest Australia ice addicts speak about the destruction meth has wrought on their lives, as demand for ice or crystal meth rises across the state.
Topics: drug-use, drug-education, drugs-and-substance-abuse, addictive, perth-6000
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| UpdatedA job selling The Big Issue magazine can make life brighter for people suffering mental health problems.
Topics: mental-health, community-organisations, addictive, canberra-2600
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Neuroscientist and former drug addict Marc Lewis is challenging the idea that addiction is a disease and argues instead that it's a learned behaviour.
Topics: addictive, books-literature, education, drugs-and-substance-abuse, neuroscience, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedPrescription drug abuse is growing at an alarming rate and is a "national emergency", the West Australian branch of the Australian Medical Association says.
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| UpdatedHost: Steve Cannane. Panel: Ian Hickie; Ticky Fullerton and Richard Denniss. Interview with: John Fahey.
The panel discusses: the Federal Government's carbon emissions reduction target; gay marriage; the cost of the Olympics and ice.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, alternative-energy, climate-change, gays-and-lesbians, marriage, olympics-summer, winter-olympics, venues, drugs-and-substance-abuse, doping-in-sports, drug-use, addictive, rehabilitation, australia
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| UpdatedThe Townsville Hospital in north Queensland says it has not been asked to consider setting up a detox centre for drug addicts.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, healthcare-facilities, addictive, townsville-4810