drugs

Feature week: What makes us tick? - Drugs

Reporter Katherine Smyrk investigates the role of partying and drugs in young peoples lives, and speaks to people that use and used to use them.

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Drugs & Alcohol at partys

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Safe-injecting rooms

The message from advocates of safe-injecting facilities is simple - get drugs off the streets.

Are safe injecting rooms a pragmatic response to reduce needle sharing, save lives and improve users' chances of getting treatment? The issue is challenging politically, but experts have renewed their push for supervised injecting facilities.

Panorama's Phoebe Roth with the story.

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Involuntary rehab

Has drug or alcohol addiction affected someone you know? What can you do when they won't help themselves?

Rehab, detox programs and counselling are all voluntary, but a bill before State parliament proposes mandatory treatment for people with a severe substance problem.

We all have the right to reject medical treatment - should drug-dependent people have the same liberty?

Panorama's Ally Bergamin and Hsin-Yi Lo report.

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Naughty Rude: Lying, beauty and the dangers of amyl

Jackie, Thomas and Fenja talk beautifulpeople.com, lying to the opposite sex and the characteristics & dangers of amyl.

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