Ice is the country's most-used illicit drug but the use of legal opioids has fallen according to latest figures from the national wastewater monitoring program.
My brother has been addicted to drugs for decades,but it has all seemed like a walk in the park compared to the moment in which we now find ourselves.
Border force officers allegedly detected the chemical,capable of producing a tonne of ice,inside the shipment from China.
From Star Wars to inside NSW prisons,a former inmate who had an addiction to ice tells drugs were everywhere on the inside.
A Queensland man who claimed to be HIV-positive when his blood spilt on a police officer's open cuts has knocked one year off his sentence on appeal.
The drug ice is increasingly a factor in family breakdown,domestic violence and the number of children being placed in care,a special inquiry has heard.
Children as young as 12 are using ice,but NSW doesn't provide any detox facilities for children under 16 other than prison.
Ice use in Dubbo and in the far west of NSW is an"epidemic",the commission heard on the first day of hearings.
Ice is ravaging Indigenous communities,including in Nowra on the south coast,the special commission of inquiry into Ice heard last week.
Children are being removed in greater numbers from families because of ice,the special commission of inquiry into ice heard on Friday.
Ice possession has increased about 31 per cent a year in the Shoalhaven region,causing family breakdown,violence and increased pressure on first responders.