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Medicine
Drugs linked to one in three cardiac arrest deaths among younger people
Experts say evidence is growing drugs such as cocaine and ice can cause heart damage and are calling for information campaigns to prevent addiction.
- by Aisha Dow
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Drug reform
Legalising cocaine would give ganglords what they fear most: Centrelink
Our communities are vulnerable and our streets are unsafe because the war on drugs policy empowers drug gangs rather than stopping them.
- by Cate Faehrmann
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Crime
Almost 100 companies on watch list for cocaine imports into Australia
Investigators believe about 1000 people could be involved in helping organised crime gangs import record amounts of cocaine and other illegal goods into Australia.
- by Rob Harris
Labor under pressure for drug reform after Sydney’s spate of shootings
The state government has been accused of dragging its heels on key drug reform as Sydney grapples with a spate of cocaine-related shootings.
- by Amber Schultz
‘Give her my number’: Forty years after sexual abuse, a chance for justice
His paedophile teacher had left a decades-long trail of misery. Then came the opportunity to put him in jail.
- by David Meagher
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Crime
Sydney’s gangs escalate war as drugs seized, top cop warns
Deputy Commissioner Dave Hudson says massive drug seizures have seen criminal syndicates exact justice on those responsible within their own organisations.
- by Perry Duffin
Perth teenager addicted to ‘nangs’ leaves hospital after three-month ordeal
A Perth teenager addicted to nangs is finally going home after three months in hospital during which she had to relearn to walk.
- by Michael Genovese
‘The honeypot’s already there’: the hunt for a CBD injecting room
When Katrina Korver visited the alley where her son fatally overdosed a year ago, and found four men shooting up heroin there, she was relieved.
- by Bianca Hall
‘Nose candy in the White House’: Outrage after cocaine probe ends with no leads
Rarely has a small bag of white powder caused such a kerfuffle within the corridors of power in Washington.
- by Farrah Tomazin
‘Big money’: Police arrest five men, seize $15 million worth of drugs in two-day blitz
Detectives executed 13 warrants, seized $15 million worth of drugs and froze $8 million worth of assets during the two-day blitz of international crime syndicates.
- by Sarah Keoghan
Flare up as CBD building shortlisted for injecting room site
Community leaders are urging the Victorian government to push ahead with a second supervised injecting room, but a potential site on Bourke Street has detractors.
- by Bianca Hall