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How big a problem is ice use among Indigenous Australians?

  • Written by: Nicole Lee, Associate Professor at the National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University
imageThere has been particular concern about methamphetamine use among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.Matthew/flickr, CC BY

While rates of methamphetamine use in Australia have remained fairly stable at 2.1% over the past ten years, there has been a shift among people who use the lower-grade powdered form of methamphetamine (speed) to...

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