A treatment centre helping those dependent on benzodiazepines such as Xanax and Valium will be forced to cut its clinician numbers from 10 to three when funding runs out.
In one laneway,people sip wine at a table under a heater. In another,someone is crouched behind a bin on the hard ground ready to inject. Their drug of choice is illegal,and without a safe injecting room,they have nowhere else to go.
The premier abandoned Daniel Andrews’ promise to build a second safe injecting room,despite her own faction pushing strongly for it.
Premier Jacinta Allan has drawn a line under the debate about a second injecting room in Melbourne by going against an expert report to say it will never be built.
Drug users can’t shirk responsibility. If a social media influencer posts pics of themselves using cocaine,they are participating in a supply chain dripping in blood.
NSW Police strip-searched children,including 12 and 13-year-olds,in the four months after the Minns government promised to review the practice,an FOI request has revealed.
Spurred by their faith and dozens of overdose deaths,city church leaders have thrown their support behind a safe injecting room in Melbourne’s CBD as the government wavers on its commitment.
NSW Crime Commissioner Michael Barnes has taken aim at the upper middle class who he says are glamorising illicit drug use.
New analysis of wastewater has found Australians’ consumption of illicit drugs is scaling record-breaking heights.
The commanding officer of the Salvation Army,which has been named as a possible location,said the organisation was “hearing nothing” from the government.
Iraq War veteran Derek Pyrah says medicinal cannabis did wonders for his PTSD. Gold Coast Suns coach Damien Hardwick swears by it for chronic pain. But many experts say the research doesn’t stack up.