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Alex Wodak: The Tolerance Room ten years later

Dr Alex Wodak marks a significant anniversary:
In 1999, 1,116 young Australians died from a heroin overdose. In parts of the country, more young Australians were dying from a heroin overdose than from car crashes. There were six heroin overdose deaths in 1964.
NSW accounts for half the heroin overdose deaths in Australia with 10% of these [...]