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.
Professor Dan Howard SC said he was deeply disappointed with the government’s failure to respond to the majority of his recommendations in the wake of the landmark inquiry.
A three-strike drug possession policy would only apply to young offenders under a compromise position floated by ministers opposed to broader reform to end a cabinet stand-off within the NSW government.
A Central West civic figure says the lack of action on tackling the underlying drivers of crime was"frankly frightening".
It's time for action,writes the commissioner who presided over the inquiry into the drug ice.
The Berejiklian government has released the report into its inquiry into the drug ice,and has immediately ruled out five key recommendations.
Criminologists are urging the Berejiklian government to establish another safe injecting room as data shows an increase in overdose deaths in western Sydney.
Doctors are demanding the Berejiklian government urgently release the findings of the special commission of inquiry into the dangerous drug.
As the NSW government considers the recommendations of a report into ice and other illicit drugs,the Greens have flagged a bill to decriminalise drug use.
It's too late to'just say no'. We must treat addiction as a health problem,not a crime.
Decriminalisation of the use and possession of illicit drugs should be a"first step"towards legalisation,the state's former top prosecutor says.