Speaker 1: This is the latest from your news speech. It's Friday,
Speaker 1: the twenty fourth of May. Black market merchants peddling meth amphetamine,
Speaker 1: ice and heroine are using Facebook posts promoting illegal vapes
Speaker 1: to funnel customers to websites and telegram chats selling hard drugs.
Speaker 1: Cybersecurity experts have worn to the use of Facebook to
Speaker 1: illegally advertise vapes before sending them through to chats selling
Speaker 1: hard drugs is opening up young people to serious drug addiction.
Speaker 1: This comes after The Daily Telegraph revealed earlier this month
Speaker 1: Australian Facebook pages and Facebook Marketplace are selling vapes under
Speaker 1: the guise of grocery or health and beauty products. A
Speaker 1: new diabetes drug thought to be better than ozempic will
Speaker 1: be trialed in Melbourne in a move researchers hope can
Speaker 1: end global shortages. The new treatment can be and the
Speaker 1: active ingredient in the infamous diabetes turned weight loss drug
Speaker 1: ozempic semil gluetite with another appetite suppressant. The Royal Melbourne
Speaker 1: Hospital will offer a select group of overweight type two
Speaker 1: diabetics the treatment for free for a year under a
Speaker 1: global trial involving multiple Australian hospitals. We'll be back after this.
Speaker 1: An Adelaide man has shared how a fantastic holiday with
Speaker 1: his wife came to a horrific end when their Singapore
Speaker 1: Airline's flight hit severe turbulence, sending them into free fall
Speaker 1: and leaving his wife with a serious spinal injury. The
Speaker 1: last thing Keith Davis remembers seeing before hitting the ceiling
Speaker 1: of the cabin was his wife's glass of water starting
Speaker 1: to vibrate. The couple were returning from their first holiday
Speaker 1: to the UK since COVID when their flight from London
Speaker 1: encountered severe turbulence, plunging six thousand feet. Passenger died and
Speaker 1: more than thirty people were taken to hospital, including Miss Jordan.
Speaker 1: And multimillion dollar sobering up centers are sitting largely empty
Speaker 1: in Victoria, with just four hundred and seventeen people checking
Speaker 1: in over their first five months of operation, despite an
Speaker 1: average of only three people a day staying in the
Speaker 1: Collingwood and Saint Kilda facilities, which both are combined twenty
Speaker 1: six beds. The Allen government has committed a further fifty
Speaker 1: three point four million dollars to set up and run
Speaker 1: several more regional centers over the next two years. We'll
Speaker 1: have an update to your newsfeed tomorrow