ABC news, 25.01.2017
Methamphetamine use in Adelaide rose 25 per cent in the past year and tripled over five years, an analysis of the city’s sewage has shown.
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National Drug Research Institute (NDRI), in collaboration with Healthtalk Australia, Monash University and Centre for Social Research in Health (CSRH), The Lives of Substance website has two aims. First, it aims to support people who consider themselves to have an alcohol or other drug addiction, dependence or habit, and second, it aims to inform the public by sharing personal stories of these...
NDARC/UNSW, 10/10/2016 The Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS) monitors emerging trends in the use, price, purity and availability of heroin, methamphetamine (speed powder, base and crystal), cocaine and cannabis. In addition to a survey of people who inject drugs (PWID), the annual data collection also includes a survey of key experts (KE) who are professionals in the field of illicit drugs and...
The Age, May 17, 2016 – 4:39PM
Ice and heroin dealing on Richmond’s drug-ravaged Victoria Street has become so flagrant that local traders are now supporting a proposal for a needle van.
In return for their support, the traders are demanding the CCTV cameras offered by the state government – and long rejected by the local council.
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The Guardian Australia, Wednesday 17 June 2015
Gay men who are HIV positive are more than four times as likely as the general population to use ice but government funded campaigns are further stigmatising users, a parliamentary inquiry into the drug has heard.
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