At least two Australians die of an opioid-related overdose every day,but Victorian police have been told they are not allowed to carry a free,life-saving antidote.
The 35-year-old appeared in court on Tuesday accused of importing drug bricks into Queensland from the United States.
Two police officers shot a rough sleeper dead on the eve of Easter on a busy Footscray street. Was the tragedy unavoidable?
A coroner has found the four friends died of an overdose of nitazines,synthetic opioids 100 times stronger than heroin.
Designed to work as a “wolf pack”,groups of the semi-autonomous systems can create permanent surveillance of coastlines over thousands of kilometres.
The group behind two south-east pill-testing sites said they picked up extremely potent synthetic opioids three times since November – including last Friday.
The final report from NSW Labor’s Drug Summit was published on Thursday.
The teenage apprentice placed an online order for a pill he hoped would help him relax and get to sleep. He never woke up.
The former Philippine president may have thought he was too powerful to be arrested over the deaths of thousands of people. He was wrong.
The former Australian cricketer was found not guilty of another charge of taking part in a large commercial drug supply.