Waiting for a crisis:Fears as NSW enters festival season without drug reform

Waiting for a crisis:Fears as NSW enters festival season without drug reform

NSW Police have confirmed drug detection dogs will be used at festivals as part of a “high-visibility police operation”.

  • byAmber Schultz

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The wild,green shrub in Afghanistan that is dividing drug experts

The wild,green shrub in Afghanistan that is dividing drug experts

Researchers were left scratching their heads this week after a UN report raised the alarm about the surging manufacture of crystal meth in Afghanistan.

  • byLucy Cormack
Queenslanders can’t break the ice,wastewater report finds

Queenslanders can’t break the ice,wastewater report finds

The use of illicit drugs has fallen across the state,with one exception – methylamphetamine,the latest wastewater data shows.

  • byStuart Layt
After a lockdown delivering the vaccine,drug services wait for inquiry response

After a lockdown delivering the vaccine,drug services wait for inquiry response

A return to normality is a return to the same problems with drug and alcohol services in the state,as services ask how long the state government can sit on the ice inquiry.

  • byMary Ward
Confronted over his addiction,my brother exploded in rage

Confronted over his addiction,my brother exploded in rage

As Nick Kilner’s big brother spiralled deeper into drug abuse in a regional town,the tragic path would teach the younger sibling how to live.

  • byNick Kilner
Premier Perrottet,this could be your first act of political courage

Premier Perrottet,this could be your first act of political courage

The NSW government commissioned a special inquiry into the drug ‘ice’ but has all but ignored its findings for 20 months. The new Premier now has an opportunity to lead on this critical issue.

  • byDan Howard
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‘Even more urgent’:Inaction on ice inquiry costing lives as treatment demand spikes

‘Even more urgent’:Inaction on ice inquiry costing lives as treatment demand spikes

Australia’s peak medical groups have warned that the NSW government’s failure to respond to the state’s ice inquiry will have catastrophic consequences.

  • byLucy Carroll
About 20 children taken into state care every week due to ice

About 20 children taken into state care every week due to ice

The disturbing impacts of the drug ice on Queensland families have been laid bare.

  • byFelicity Caldwell
A mother's ice addiction is the subject of a new innovative,animated film

A mother's ice addiction is the subject of a new innovative,animated film

An"inspiring"stop-motion film by a US Fulbright scholar tackles a Sydney-based woman's drug recovery by portraying her as a platypus.

  • byJulie Power
Growing push for Sydney's second medically supervised injecting room
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Growing push for Sydney's second medically supervised injecting room

Criminologists are urging the Berejiklian government to establish another safe injecting room as data shows an increase in overdose deaths in western Sydney.

  • byAlexandra Smith
Good Weekend's Who Mattered 2019:Politics

Good Weekend's Who Mattered 2019:Politics

Scott Morrison:“Cunning. A little Machiavellian. And not to be underestimated."Plus:Jacqui Lambie and Philip Lowe.

  • byKonrad Marshall