Word: macken
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...suggest many users have tried to break their habits since heroin supply fell, but drug workers see plenty of others who inject stimulants instead. "Our clients are saying, why waste our money on heroin when it's not very good quality and when ice is so cheap?" says Wendy Macken, head of Directions A.C.T., Canberra's largest non-government drug and alcohol service. "For them it doesn't matter what the effect is, as long as it takes them away from what they were feeling." The result, she says, is a growing number of amphetamine-dependent troublemakers: "With heroin...