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How does ice use affect families and what can they do?

  • Written by Nicole Lee, Associate Professor at the National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University
imageUS TV-style 'interventions' aren't the answer. Kamira/Shutterstock

Some of the greatest impacts of drug use are on families, but families sometimes feel in a position of little control when it comes to responding. Often they receive mixed messages about what they should do.

Ice or crystal meth, the strongest form of methamphetamine, has arguably the...

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