The consequences of chronic methamphetamine use are already visible in hospital wards, and it's about to get worse, an emergency department doctor says.
Dr Paul Quigley told a symposium on reducing drug harm on Monday the country was facing an impending health crisis on par with smoking-related lung disease.
"We are seeing the chronic effects of drug use, that's often in terms of mental health - so people developing ongoing forms of schizophrenia - [but] we are now seeing the hard
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