Breaking the ice: Drug menace driving up crime, destroying lives, say frontline workers

By Editor Daniel Johns
Updated October 21 2014 - 2:15pm, first published 4:00am
DRUG HARM: Centacare New England-North West principal psychologist Josie Hofman says treating ice addicts can present clinical challenges.
DRUG HARM: Centacare New England-North West principal psychologist Josie Hofman says treating ice addicts can present clinical challenges.

THE highly addictive drug ice is sinking its claws deeper into Tamworth’s underbelly, driving up crime and sparking a dramatic increase in the number of used syringes being found on public land.

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