When cocaine is washing up on your beaches,supply isn’t the only problem

When cocaine is washing up on your beaches,supply isn’t the only problem

Drug users can’t shirk responsibility. If a social media influencer posts pics of themselves using cocaine,they are participating in a supply chain dripping in blood.

  • byMichael Barnes

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Dozens of children strip-searched by police over summer

Dozens of children strip-searched by police over summer

NSW Police strip-searched children,including 12 and 13-year-olds,in the four months after the Minns government promised to review the practice,an FOI request has revealed.

  • byCaitlin Fitzsimmons
‘Salvation is about saving lives’:CBD churches plead for safe injecting room

‘Salvation is about saving lives’:CBD churches plead for safe injecting room

Spurred by their faith and dozens of overdose deaths,city church leaders have thrown their support behind a safe injecting room in Melbourne’s CBD as the government wavers on its commitment.

  • byRachel Eddie
Affluent Sydneysiders driving state’s booming cocaine trade:crime chief
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Affluent Sydneysiders driving state’s booming cocaine trade:crime chief

NSW Crime Commissioner Michael Barnes has taken aim at the upper middle class who he says are glamorising illicit drug use.

  • byMax Maddison
‘An amazing quantity’:Sydney still in first flush of infatuation with cocaine

‘An amazing quantity’:Sydney still in first flush of infatuation with cocaine

New analysis of wastewater has found Australians’ consumption of illicit drugs is scaling record-breaking heights.

  • bySally Rawsthorne
‘Radio silence’ for charity that could host Melbourne’s next injecting room

‘Radio silence’ for charity that could host Melbourne’s next injecting room

The commanding officer of the Salvation Army,which has been named as a possible location,said the organisation was “hearing nothing” from the government.

  • byRachel Eddie
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Wonder drug or placebo:The confounding case of medicinal cannabis

Wonder drug or placebo:The confounding case of medicinal cannabis

Iraq War veteran Derek Pyrah says medicinal cannabis did wonders for his PTSD. Gold Coast Suns coach Damien Hardwick swears by it for chronic pain. But many experts say the research doesn’t stack up.

  • byJewel Topsfield
An Australian doctor has just made global history. This is what happened

An Australian doctor has just made global history. This is what happened

A single pill administered in a borrowed medical clinic has become the talk of mental health doctors around the world.

  • byJordan Baker
How much a pill-testing trial would cost Victoria

How much a pill-testing trial would cost Victoria

Following festival overdoses,left-wing crossbenchers are stepping up pressure on the state government over drug checking.

  • byRachel Eddie
‘Inconclusive is enough’:Victoria’s low-key pill testers

‘Inconclusive is enough’:Victoria’s low-key pill testers

The debate on testing party drugs is just restarting in Victoria,but some people are already doing the work at festivals.

  • byRachel Eddie
‘We have this conversation every summer’:The cost of MDMA overdoses

‘We have this conversation every summer’:The cost of MDMA overdoses

The Parliamentary Budget Office estimates Victoria spends up to $3.9 million a year on MDMA-related overdoses in ambulances,emergency departments and coronial inquiries.

  • byRachel Eddie