“I WAS screaming, ‘He’s got no one else, he’s got no one else’.” “That was traumatic,” the 23-year-old Londoner turned missionary Catholic said, toking his vape and puffing the syrupy nicotine steam about the loft above Blind Eye Ministry. He relaxed back in his chair, a calmer man, halfway into his story about his dad in a crack den in ... Read More »
OVERCOMING grief and still-raw pain, the family of a former Catholic schoolboy who died from an overdose at a music festival, are rallying to promote drug education and improve safety measures for young party revellers. Joshua Tam, 22, a former Marist College Ashgrove student, a talented rugby player who was studying at QUT, was at the Lost Paradise music festival ... Read More »
THE drug ice has taken such a grip in Queensland that government and care agencies are swamped by demand for crisis intervention, treatment and support for the families of users including children, and the effects are being felt in parishes. A Queensland Government report has revealed one in every three children found to be in need of protection in 2016 ... Read More »
RORY Norris promised to stop using heroin when he turned 30. He never asked to be an addict, but addiction has no social boundaries – a kid from a private school in Brisbane born to a devout Catholic mum could still get caught in a drug-abuse trap. “I started smoking marijuana at school, and then got into harder drugs,” he ... Read More »
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