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Australian drug testing companies unite to call for cultural respect in drug testing Indigenous workers. They say that strict enforcement and punitive attitudes towards drug use management may derail efforts to improve their health and way of living.
Researchers in Canada have discovered a link between certain personality traits in children and the tendency to develop an addiction later in life. They are now rolling out a program that targets these high risk traits for addiction before they can cause problems. The results are heartening and the identified traits can give us clues about…
A real time prescription monitoring system is on the works in Victoria, with the aim of stopping or at least reducing the number of people who die of prescription drug overdose deaths, says an article by Richard Willingham for The Age.
Drug addiction is a disease, and a complex one at that. If it weren’t, kicking a drug habit should be fairly easy. That, however, is far from being the case. Drugs alter the brain in more ways than one, and it will take more than good intentions and an iron will to draw those harmful…
Fans of the “Merc With a Mouth” rejoice! The long-awaited Deadpool movie hasn’t even been released in the United States yet, but Fox has already greenlighted a sequel. Apparently, Fox is absolutely certain Deadpool, with Ryan Reynolds in the title role, is all set to become like a movie on steroids when it comes to the…
When advertising giant Saatchi & Saatchi launched its Stoner Sloth campaign for the NSW government, it wasn’t probably expecting the ads to go viral on social media. Neither did they expect it to be widely mocked, but mockery is what the entire campaign seems to be receiving lately.
It’s hard enough to deal with a close friend or family member who has a drug problem. In most cases, you can expect a lot of drama—and even violence in some cases—if and when you muster enough courage to stage an intervention and convince your drug-addicted loved one to get help. So you can only…
Many small towns in Australia have already been overrun by crystal meth or ice, but the residents of one such town in New South Wales have learned how to fight back, says Jonathan Pearlman in a report for The Telegraph.