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A scene from the car crash on Sutton Street earlier this year. Picture: Lachlan Bence.

VIC: A teen who allegedly stole a $90,000 luxury vehicle and crashed into an elderly couple used the drug ice in the morning of the offence.

16-year-old ice user pleads guilty to more than 50 charges

A $1000 a week drug habit and the need to transport drugs and weapons to fuel it was the breaking point for one Margaret River resident at 20 years-of-age.

Illicit drug education key to reduction: recovering addict

RECOVERING:    Alex, who is currently undergoing detoxification at Serenity House.  ‘‘Ice can make you feel like the person you should always be for a while,’’ he says, but after several days ‘‘hell unwinds’’.   Picture: Grant Wells.

TAS: High on ice and heroin, 24-year-old drug addict Alex thought he was Ozzy Osbourne.

The madness of ice addiction

Biripi ACMC's Anthony Paulson, Lauren McDermott and Troy Cochrane. Anthony will be speaking at the ice information forum in Taree on August 20.

NSW: An alcohol and drug worker believes ignoring the ice issue could mean we "lose a generation".

The cost of ignoring the ice problem

Kerri-Ann Perry and Rhiannon Chapman attended the Eden Ice Forum recently to learn about supporting people on the drug ice.

TWO Bega High School students have said they know teenagers in the Valley who have tried the drug ice.

Breaking the ice: Bega High students share knowledge gained at community drug forum

COMMUNITY CONCERN: Northern Territory government select committee member Gerry Wood and chair Nathan Barrett listen to community testimony at a hearing into ice usage in Katherine on Tuesday.

KATHERINE: Woman dobs in husband for dealing Ice to get the dangerous drug out of her home.

Katherine resident takes drastic action on ice scourge

Some of the items seized by Esperance Detectives following a series of drug-related arrests in the region. Photo: WA Police Media. 

Esperance police have continued their crackdown on drugs in the region by arresting and charging three alleged methamphetamine dealers 

Police crackdown on drugs continues

Braidwood arrests. Photos NSW Police Media.

VIDEO: Information from the public has led to the arrest of 19 people, the seizure of five firearms and a large amount of drugs (ICE), during a large-scale drug operation.

Ice-related raids across Southern NSW | Photos, Video

Nguumambiny Indigenous Corporation manager Lynn Field 

She knows children as young as 14 who are using drugs and it is those youth Nguumambiny Indigenous Corporation manager Lynn Field said would not be helped by the new ice taskforce.

Taskforce missing the point: Field

THE emergence of the drug ice and its associated dangers has brought with it a myriad of cliches that have the potential to make us immune to the very dialogue we are engaging in to tackle the problem.

OPINION: Tired cliches don't lessen the problems we face