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Sad Tale of Petrol Sniffing

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Morning Magazine,
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Thursday 12th August

After years of drug abuse that left him brain damaged and homeless, the body of a teenage boy was found in Halls Creek.

So why did no one step in and stop his drug-induced death?

Don’t we have services in place to prevent these sort of things happening?

It’s 2010 and drugs aren’t new so why are our youth still becoming entangled in a vicious cycle of drug addiction?

To answer these questions Meri Fatin spoke to Curtin University’s National Drug Research Institute Director Steve Allsop.