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Cancer
I’m not dope sick, I’m dying. So don’t make me doctor-shop for pain relief
Bad press around opioids has resulted in a reluctance to prescribe the drugs, even for terminally ill patients in chronic pain, like me.
- by John O'Brien
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Crime
Third person arrested five years after record $17 million WA cannabis bust
My Thi Tran, 46, is the third person to be arrested over the state’s biggest-ever cannabis bust, where more than 7000 plants were discovered in 2018.
- by Rebecca Peppiatt
Aussies behind billion-dollar cocaine haul caught in global sting, jury told
Tristan Waters and David Campbell are accused of plotting to import more than a tonne of cocaine hidden inside steel.
- by Sarah McPhee
‘A very dark time’: When his doctor changed his prescription, the effect for Kevin was instant
It took Kevin James two years to recover after doctors changed his medication. He doesn’t want this to happen to anyone else.
- by Amber Schultz
‘People are dying’: CBD residents call for rush on second injecting room
The Yes In My Back Yard movement – or YIMBYs – say they have a responsibility to push for safe-injecting room to be built in the Melbourne CBD.
- by Cara Waters
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Perth
This Perth teenager tried ‘nangs’ at leavers. Now she is bedridden in hospital
Molly Day, 19, can no longer walk, eat or shower without her mother’s assistance after becoming indefinitely bedridden by nitrous oxide poisoning.
- by Zarisha Bradley
Was Grandma tripping on acid at Aquarius?
The day in 1973 that naked hippies swamped a future deputy prime minister Doug Anthony is the stuff of family legend. But the memories of other festival goers are a little ... hazy.
- by Heath Gilmore
Opinion
Naked City
We’ve educated the public many times. Why can’t we do it for drugs?
We have a massive appetite for the gear, but not for the debate. Any rational discussion questioning the war on drugs is immediately shut down - much to the relief of drug dealers.
- by John Silvester
Once a pariah, Bashar al-Assad now welcomed back in Arab fold
Syria had been suspended from the Arab League since the president reacted to nationwide protests in 2011 with a crackdown that turned into a 12-year civil war.
- by Aidan Lewis and Sarah El Safty
Richmond injecting room shaved $60,000 off nearby house prices: study
The supervised injecting room has hit the value of houses within 800 metres, but has not dented prices in the wider suburb.
- by Liam Mannix