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The one thing very different about ice versus speed or ecstasy (or cocaine) was that I would often really feel like another hit the day afterwards. It definitely felt more addictive than the other class A drugs I'd taken.


 A recreational ice user tells of his brush with the highly addictive drug ice.

A casual users' story

GROUND TRUTH: NSW Ambulance paramedics Kerry Joseph and Susan Gow have seen the devastating impact the drug ice has on the human body.

Kerry Joseph will never forget the night it took three police officers to hold her patient down despite him being strapped to a stretcher in the back of an ambulance.

South Coast paramedics' ice horror

MAJOR PROBLEM: Oolong House chief executive officer Ivern Ardler says one in three men applying for treatment is addicted to ice.

THE prevalence and use of crystal methamphetamine or ice has increased dramatically in the Shoalhaven, according to the chief executive officer of a drug and alcohol treatment centre in Nowra.

No longer a big city epidemic

TEENS as young as 13 are seeking help for addiction to the methamphetamine ice, as the Salvation Army increases its efforts to reach Northern communities affected by the devastating drug.

Northern Tasmania's ice crisis

Youth Support and Advocacy Service workers Christine May and Marianne Campbell. photograph Jessica Chambers

Support networks need to look at underlying causes of ice use in order to help the user recover, according to experienced youth workers.

ICE FOCUS: Tackle the cause

BALLARAT children as young as 10 are abusing the devastating methamphetamine known as ice. 

Children as young as 10 using ice in Ballarat

AMBULANCE call outs to ice-related incidents in regional Victoria have tripled over the past year.

Ice incidents rise across state

DRUG TESTING: Acting Sergeant Kevyn Hume-Cook. Picture: LIZ FLEMING

COMBATING Bendigo's ice problem requires an inter-agency response, says Sergeant Mick Peckham from the Central Victorian Response Unit.

Planning 'attack' on ice problem

Minister for Mental Health Mary Wooldridge.

ICE is a dangerous drug that can destroy relationships, health and lives, Mental Health Minister Mary Wooldridge says.

State government tackles ice epidemic

Crios O'Mahony, of Anex, speaks at a forum. Picture: MATTHEW SMITHWICK

COMMUNITIES must develop personalised approaches to tackling drug, forum hears.

Benalla ice forum | No single way to tackle ice

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