The so-called 'war on drugs' has been waged in the US since at least the 1970s, when then President Richard Nixon signed the Controlled Substances Act and declared drug abuse as “public enemy number one.” In Australia, there have been similar efforts to battle drug trafficking and use. As prescription opioids overtake heroin as a public health emergency, those efforts have expanded to restrict the control and supply of those substances too. First Nations people have been much more heavily impacted by substance issues and official responses than the non-Indigenous population. In this Episode of The Too Hard Basket, and in the final story of a three part series on drugs in Australia, we look at how these issues play out for Indigenous communities.
In this bulletin, the mother of an Aboriginal man who died in custody protests outside prison on the eighth anniversary of his death; temperatures expected to soar across Northern Australia in the coming days; and in cricket, Pat Cummins steps up once again to keep Australia in control of the Boxing Day test.
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