Community leaders are urging the Victorian government to push ahead with a second supervised injecting room,but a potential site on Bourke Street has detractors.
The number of Australians seeking help for alcohol use has surged as health workers call for a crackdown on home delivery and advertising.
Everyone does drugs for their own reasons. For me,it was being afraid of my own brain. I made it out the other side,but some friends didn’t.
Internal documents at TikTok parent ByteDance show the company knows young people are more susceptible to being lured into trying dangerous stunts they view on the platform.
Gary Van Duinen died after a 13-hour gambling spree. His mother and widow do not believe either of the policies offered at the election would have saved him.
Unregulated,simulated casino games prove lucrative for developers,but experts fear they are breeding future problem gamblers.
Chinese authorities have approved dozens of new video games as state media touts the “cutting-edge technology” of the $66 billion sector.
Video games in which players spend money on in-built games of chance can be a gateway to gambling,a coalition of experts in screen addiction has warned.
The use of illicit drugs has fallen across the state,with one exception – methylamphetamine,the latest wastewater data shows.
If your goal is real behaviour change – and not just virtuous Instagram posts – implementing boundaries around alcohol consumption that are sustainable in the long term will be more helpful than hanging your hat on a hashtag for a booze-free few weeks.
While the overall number of users is small,the proportion needing intensive intervention is huge. In fact only one other drug is causing similar levels of harm.