Addict News
Cousins Kicks Off With A Promise
Thursday December 18, 2008
BEN Cousins' extraordinary episode of public catharsis yesterday - tightly controlled, but only just - began with a promise. The recovering drug addict and new Richmond AFL player wanted to be "open and honest", pledged the club's media manager, Judith Donnelly. "Ben wants to be as frank as he possibly can."Confident, Contrite And, He Says, Clean
Thursday December 18, 2008
BEN Cousins' extraordinary episode of public catharsis yesterday - tightly controlled, but only just - began with a promise. The recovering drug addict and new Richmond AFL player wanted to be "open and honest", pledged the club's media manager, Judith Donnelly. "Ben wants to be as frank as he possibly can."League Failed Cousins: Aflpa
Thursday December 4, 2008
THE AFL Players Association has effectively blamed the AFL for the shunning of Ben Cousins, accusing the league of having "bent and buckled" to demands for retribution against the recovering drug addict.Players' Union Slams Afl For 'buckling' On Cousins
Thursday December 4, 2008
THE AFL Players Association has effectively blamed the AFL for the shunning of Ben Cousins, accusing the league of having "bent and buckled" to demands for retribution against the recovering drug addict.Integrity Of Afl System Is In Hands Of A Drug Addict
Saturday November 22, 2008
THREE urine tests a week. Four hair samples a year. Welcome back, Ben Cousins, to the strict new world of AFL footy.Doctor Questioned About Fatal Morphine Overdose
Thursday November 20, 2008
A MOUNT Waverley doctor who allegedly prescribed an excessive dose of morphine to a woman on the day she fatally overdosed on the drug had been warned by health authorities that she might be an addict, the Medical Practitioners Board has heard.Cousins Likely To Get Green Light
Tuesday November 18, 2008
THE AFL's near-certain decision today to ratify the comeback of self-confessed drug addict Ben Cousins could be thwarted in the coming days by the two AFL clubs which remain in the running to take him.Jill The Tripper Eludes Her Captors
Monday November 17, 2008
A heroin addict who can cover her tracks has police on the hop, writes Allan Hall in Berlin.
a DNA calling-card of "Frau Ohne Gesicht" ("woman without a face").A Bitter-sweet Love
Saturday November 8, 2008
A self-confessed coffee addict, Ellen Jordan was devastated when she was forced her to abstain. Could she function without its inspiration?Crown Chiefs 'targeted Betting Addict Who Gambled $1.4bn'
Thursday October 30, 2008
CROWN Casino chief executive Rowen Craigie was allegedly part of a plan to target a chronic gambler who turned over $1.4billion in a 14-month gambling spree while banned from every casino in Australia.Inquest Studies Ice Addict's Role
Wednesday October 22, 2008
AN ICE addict may have been responsible for the bizarre scene police discovered when they found the body of Joyce Germain, an inquest has heard.Saints Alive For Cousins As Swans And Collingwood Declare No Interest
Friday October 17, 2008
SYDNEY say they are not among the clubs reportedly lobbying the AFL to have former West Coast star Ben Cousins reinstated and will not consider recruiting the recovering drug addict should he be available in the pre-season draft.Swans Rule Out Plan To Take Cousins, But O'keefe Stays On The Radar
Friday October 17, 2008
SYDNEY say they are not among the clubs reportedly lobbying the AFL to have former West Coast star Ben Cousins reinstated and will not consider recruiting the recovering drug addict should he be available in the pre-season draft.Man Of The Streets Leaves World With Message Of Love
Friday October 10, 2008
ONE day in the late 1970s, two teenage boys sat down at the cliffs at Tamarama Beach and smoked their first joint. One would go on to become a leading criminal lawyer, with an office in Wardell Chambers at Martin Place. The other would die alone, an emaciated, mentally ill addict in the streets of Kings Cross.It's Sex And Dieting For Lunch, Cops And Bloggers For Dinner
Thursday September 4, 2008
LOVE SICK: SECRETS OF A SEX ADDICT (2008), noon, Seven: If you believe the title suggests a lunchtime cavalcade of torrid sexual encounters and continuous legover activity - writ large, nude and explicit - forget it. Packaging is all too frequently deceptive; so too is unpackaging, as in striptease. This film, based on Sue William Silverman's memoir of her struggle with - and eventual victory over - sexual addiction, might be vaguely informative but it's far from full-frontal. Similar addictive ...Accused High On Ice
Thursday July 24, 2008
A MAN who allegedly bound and gagged a Stockton woman and stabbed her to death was an ice addict, who told police he was using drugs every two or three hours at the time of the murder, a court has heard.Ice Addict Moved In
Thursday July 24, 2008
A MAN who allegedly bound and gagged a Stockton woman and stabbed her to death was an ice addict, Newcastle Local Court heard yesterday.Lillie's Killer Jailed
Saturday July 12, 2008
A DRUG addict who killed Cooks Hill identity Lillie Wood to get money to feed her habit could be released from prison in as little as four years.Addict Believed Woman Was Murdered, Court Told
Friday July 11, 2008
A FORMER ice addict who had been looking to buy drugs when he discovered the body of a woman on the floor of her flat, believed she had been murdered, a court has heard.In The Wake Of Her Father
Sunday April 20, 2008
MEAGEN NAY will carry more than the hopes of a nation when she competes at her first Olympics in Beijing. The 19-year-old will be inspired by a father she barely knew, Robert, an Olympian and a former heroin addict who died when she was four.