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| UpdatedA professor who has been at the forefront of providing health care vulnerable people around Sydney's Kings Cross for 30 years is calling for drug use to be decriminalised.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-use, drug-offences, homelessness, prostitution, kings-cross-2011
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Penny's kids found out she was homeless by seeing pictures in the media and online.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, family, homelessness, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedAs research suggests homelessness is costing Victoria $194 million a year, we speak to some of the hundreds of people sleeping rough on Melbourne's streets about how they ended up there and what they do with their days.
Topics: homelessness, community-and-society, drugs-and-substance-abuse, mental-health, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedThe former Meander Primary School will be turned into a 22-bed drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre for women and children despite strong opposition.
Topics: drug-education, drugs-and-substance-abuse, local-government, tas
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Matthew Dawson-Clarke's mother heard of her son's death from someone who had been with him in Peru.
Topics: death, drugs-and-substance-abuse, australia, peru
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Foreign Correspondent reporter Hamish Macdonald talks to News Breakfast about his quest to find out how Matthew Dawson-Clarke died in Peru.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, death, australia, peru
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Cronulla skipper Paul Gallen calls for automatic two-year bans for NRL players who test positive to illicit drugs.
Topics: nrl, sport, rugby-league, drugs-and-substance-abuse, cronulla-2230, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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One in 50 festival-goers were found with drugs at a music event in Sydney's eastern suburbs on a weekend that saw nearly 150 people caught with illicit substances — including at an under-18s festival.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-education, drug-use, drug-offences, carnivals-and-festivals, randwick-2031, homebush-2140, bondi-junction-2022, paddington-2021, redfern-2016
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A man who gave his girlfriend ecstasy tablets before she died is given a 12-month good behaviour bond, which the girl's mother says will just allow him to continue partying.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, courts-and-trials, petersham-2049
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An Indonesian court hands down a seven-month jail term to the former war correspondent, whose legal team argued he had used drugs because he suffered from post traumatic stress.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-offences, crime, drug-use, courts-and-trials, bali, indonesia
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A Queensland community lawyer says grandparents are contacting her daily seeking custody of their grandchildren and requests for information are increasing.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-use, older-people, family-law, maroochydore-4558
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| UpdatedA drug syndicate linked to the Finks outlaw motorcycle gang is dismantled at Wagga Wagga in the state's Riverina, New South Wales police say.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, crime, police, wagga-wagga-2650, ashmont-2650, kooringal-2650, tolland-2650, turvey-park-2650, nsw
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| UpdatedThe Philippines' lower house has moved to reinstate the death penalty for drug crimes. Jean Encinas-Franco, an associate professor of political science at The University of The Philippine Dilman, spoke to the world from Manila to discuss the implications.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, drugs-and-substance-abuse, philippines
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| UpdatedThe AFP and Border Force say the seizure of 540 kilograms of methamphetamine, found hidden in protein powder jars, is one of the 10 largest drug hauls in Australia's history.
Topics: drug-offences, drugs-and-substance-abuse, crime, sydney-2000, australia
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Police are seizing crystal methamphetamine, or ice, of 100 per cent purity, South Australia's drug rehabilitation services warn, as the state grapples with ways to fight the drug use epidemic.
Topics: states-and-territories, government-and-politics, federal---state-issues, drugs-and-substance-abuse, community-and-society, drug-education, drug-use, health, drug-offences, sa, murray-bridge-5253, whyalla-5600, mount-gambier-5290, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedAs Western Australia's state election draws nearer, substance abuse experts and families torn apart by methamphetamine warn major political parties they can not "arrest" their way out of the state's drug problem.
Topics: elections, government-and-politics, drug-use, drugs-and-substance-abuse, wa, geraldton-6530
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The doctor who gave methadone to an inmate at Canberra's jail two days prior to his death tells an inquest that it is "very unusual and unlikely" to die from such a small dosage.
Topics: drug-use, health, drug-education, drugs-and-substance-abuse, prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, black-deaths-in-custody, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedA Hong Kong man caught with more than 300 kilograms of methylamphetamine — the largest seizure of the drug in Western Australia — will have to spend at least 18 years behind bars.
Topics: drug-offences, drugs-and-substance-abuse, courts-and-trials, police, perth-6000, wa, canning-vale-6155, south-hedland-6722
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| UpdatedBrisbane homeless program aims to reduces the demand on public services and save the community tens of thousands of dollars.
Topics: homelessness, housing, charities-and-community-organisations, community-organisations, mental-health, drugs-and-substance-abuse, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedInmates will receive a smaller drug dosage and have to wait longer to get it under changes to the methadone program at Canberra's prison.
Topics: drug-use, prisons-and-punishment, drugs-and-substance-abuse, law-crime-and-justice, hume-2620, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedPolice on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island are concerned that a build up of arms and drugs may be underway in the Province.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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A three-month drug investigation results in detectives jailing 13 alleged traffickers and testing the city's sewerage for drugs.
Topics: drug-offences, drugs-and-substance-abuse, kalgoorlie-6430, esperance-6450
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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 mother who lost her five children at the peak of her ice addiction joins a new campaign which attempts to curb the rapid rise of drug use among young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Topics: drug-education, community-education, educational-resources, drugs-and-substance-abuse, police, dubbo-2830
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| UpdatedA woman is rushed to hospital after taking a potentially deadly drug, similar to the substance that killed three people in Melbourne last month, that was falsely sold as MDMA.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, drug-offences, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, canberra-2600, act, australia, melbourne-3000, vic