Western Victoria's drug shock

Marian Macdonald
Updated July 16 2020 - 6:52am, first published 6:00am
HELP: Geoff Soma (third from left) and others are fighting for local residential support. Photo by Christine Ansorge.
HELP: Geoff Soma (third from left) and others are fighting for local residential support. Photo by Christine Ansorge.

Illicit drug use has grown 50 per cent in Western Victoria in three years - ranking it third in Australia, the National Drug Strategy Household Survey has revealed.

Marian Macdonald

Marian Macdonald

National rural property writer

Writing for farmers in the Stock & Land, The Land, Queensland Country Life, Stock Journal and FarmWeekly, farming in Gippsland.

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