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Is Australia really being flooded by new killer drugs?

  • Written by: Stephen Bright, Adjunct Research Fellow with the National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University
imageSince 2009 an increasing number of drugs have emerged that are designed to circumvent the law and are cheap to produce.Photographee.eu/Shutterstock

Recent media reports have suggested Australia is set to be flooded with new types of deadly “synthetic” drugs.

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