Nitazenes, a group of potent synthetic opioids, are fuelling a global overdose crisis, with rising fatalities across Europe and North America. In Australia, nitazenes are only just making their mark, from hip inner-city nightclubs to …
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Australia’s first responders and health officials are dealing with an ever-growing number of drug users and addicts, who are now dying in record numbers. The use of methamphetamines, particularly crystal methamphetamine (‘ice’) has plagued the …
Tomorrow, ASPI’s Border Security Program will launch its new Special Report on crystal methamphetamine (‘ice’): Methamphetamine: focusing Australia’s national ice strategy on the problem, not the symptoms. Australia’s seemingly unquenchable thirst for ice has created major …
Over the last few days I have found myself reflecting on the policy challenges of disrupting the cross-border trade in new psychoactive substances (NPS), which are manufactured to copy the user experiences of illicit drugs. …
In April 2015, the Commonwealth Government established a National Ice Task Force to develop a National Ice Action Strategy. With the establishment of the National Ice Task Force one could be forgiven for thinking that …