Detainee handed hefty jail sentence for running ‘brazen’ drugs business from Yongah Hill
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Detainee handed hefty jail sentence for running ‘brazen’ drugs business from Yongah Hill

Andrew Hickling imported drugs and dirty money into WA,running a lucrative business all while incarcerated at Northam’s Yongah Hill Detention Centre.

  • byRebecca Peppiatt

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Cocaine worth hundreds of thousands of dollars was left in a Sydney park. It wasn’t there for long
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Cocaine worth hundreds of thousands of dollars was left in a Sydney park. It wasn’t there for long

Police allege the notorious gang known as The Commission used car parks,suburban streets and parks across the city to sell an eye-watering amount of cocaine.

  • bySally Rawsthorne
Uncanny parallels between fallen star Andrew O’Keefe and his rock legend uncle

Uncanny parallels between fallen star Andrew O’Keefe and his rock legend uncle

The O’Keefe family is again witnessing a beloved family member battle with drugs and mental ill health.

  • byJordan Baker
Cocaine find sparks drug test and late-night confrontation in council scandal

Cocaine find sparks drug test and late-night confrontation in council scandal

The drug find in the men’s bathroom at Moonee Valley council chambers has blown into the public arena,with claims the mayor demanded a drug test from a councillor late one night.

  • byRachael Dexter
Andrew O’Keefe charged after overdose in Sydney’s eastern suburbs
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Andrew O’Keefe charged after overdose in Sydney’s eastern suburbs

The former TV star was allegedly found with drugs in his possession two days after being revived by paramedics.

  • byChristopher Harris andRiley Walter
Postcode lottery:Where police have shunned state’s new drug laws
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Postcode lottery:Where police have shunned state’s new drug laws

Data from nearly six months of NSW’s landmark pre-court diversion scheme suggests the vast majority of people are still being sent through the overburdened legal system.

  • byMax Maddison
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Glebe deaths spark killer ‘cocaine’ warning
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Glebe deaths spark killer ‘cocaine’ warning

Four recent overdoses have sparked a warning from health authorities about drugs sold as cocaine but cut with heroin and other potentially deadly opioids.

  • byAngus Thomson
Pragmatism,morality and the social science of pill testing
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Pragmatism,morality and the social science of pill testing

Critics of pill testing fear it will create a false sense of security that leads to more people taking more drugs. But the evidence says otherwise.

  • byLiam Mannix
‘You all think you’re such gangsters’:Magistrate slams Bondi dial-a-dealer

‘You all think you’re such gangsters’:Magistrate slams Bondi dial-a-dealer

The magistrate savaged the western Sydney teenager,saying “we’re sick” of dealers coming to the eastern suburbs with their encrypted phones.

  • byAmber Schultz
‘Terrifying potency’:The overdose-inducing drug invading suburbia

‘Terrifying potency’:The overdose-inducing drug invading suburbia

The number of unintentional opioid overdose deaths in Australia has continued to grow,the latest data shows.

  • byAmber Schultz
‘From LA to Byron to Sydney’:The trippy treat popular among Millennial mums

‘From LA to Byron to Sydney’:The trippy treat popular among Millennial mums

This rising “It” drug looks like designer chocolate,is micro-dosed among the monied set – and is illegal.

  • byJonathan Seidler