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Celebs and sports people drug busts thread

Sounds like G.

Not sure I understand why people are surprised by all this drug activity from footie players. They're young blokes who work hard and make a lot of money, of course they're going to want to party it up when they get the chance. I just wish they didn't have to play the whole apologetic card to try preserve their careers, would be nice if they could just tell the media to go fuck themselves and that they can put whatever the hell they want into their bodies in their own free time.
 
Footy star Mark Eustice's drug spiral
Luke Waters
Sunday Herald Sun
August 29, 2010 12:00AM

A FORMER AFL footballer has revealed how a six-year drug and alcohol addiction nearly claimed his life.
Mark Eustice said he was 72 hours from death after a bender of cocaine, speed, crystal meth, ecstasy and alcohol.

The 137-game veteran, who played with Essendon, Richmond and the Sydney Swans, said he was saved only after two high-profile football identities and his former clubs raised money to put him through rehab.

"Before then, I was drinking a bottle of vodka a day, six stubbies, doing two bags of coke, four packets of cigarettes," Eustice said.

"I did more and more and, in the end, it just gets hold of you.

"If you had three hundred bucks in your pocket and you have a thousand dollars of bills, you'd just go and do drugs."

Now four years clean, Eustice spoke out in the wake of the Ben Cousins documentary, which he said was far from the reality of the despair drugs caused.

The former drug addict said the next phase of his life was to find a job.

"Ideally, I'd love to use my story as a lesson to help others," Eustice said.

"I am one of the lucky ones to get through this ordeal and I'm proof that with the right help and self discipline, there is light at the end of the tunnel."
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Sunday Herald Sun
 

Hawk player 'overdosed' on GBH
Caroline Wilson
August 31, 2010

The future of Hawthorn footballer Travis Tuck was last night in doubt following an overdose late Friday of the illicit drug known as GBH.

Tuck, 22, was found by police unconscious in his car in Berwick beside a hotel and was taken by ambulance to a nearby by hospital.

The Hawks, on the verge of a knockout final against Fremantle, were counselling Tuck who had been left out of the Hawk's VFL affiliate Box Hill on the weekend.

A police spokesman confirmed the 22-year-old was found unconscious in a car in Berwick, in Melbourne’s outer south-east, about midnight on Friday.

The police spokesman said an ambulance was called immediately when Tuck was found unconscious. "The man regained consciousness prior to the arrival of the ambulance and was then conveyed to a nearby hospital for treatment.

"During a search of the vehicle, a small glass jar containing clear liquid was located along with drug paraphernalia.

"Police will not be pursuing any charges in relation to this incident."

The football club would not respond to suggestions that Tuck was found to have used the illicit "party" drug known as GBH — gamma hydroxybutyrate — a liquid amphetamine.

AFL football executive Adrian Anderson said the league was continuing to work with the club in handling a very sensitive and delicate situation.

Hawthorn chief executive Stuart Fox said that while more information was being gathered about the incident, Tuck’s welfare was the club’s main focus.

"The player was discharged from hospital into the care of his family following an incident in the early hours of Saturday morning," said Fox.

"The club and the player’s family will continue to support the player to ensure his personal health and welfare is secured."

Tuck's teammates were informed last night that one of their number was being treated for an illicit drug problem.

Under AFL rules, a player testing positive to illicit substances on three occasions faces suspension from the game and his name being made public.

It is not known whether Tuck was tested after being hospitalised for allegedly using GBH which has become notorious for the rapid nature in which it is eliminated from the body's system and also because of the expense of the testing process.

Tuck is the brother of Richmond midfielder Shane Tuck and the son of the AFL’s games record holder and Hawthorn premiership player Michael Tuck.

Tuck has been a fringe player at Hawthorn this season and has not made the senior side after the club looked at trading or delisting him at the end of 2009.

Hawthorn has become aware of a number of issues facing the young footballer.

Tuck's manager Liam Pickering did not return calls from the Age last night.


The Age

Here's an idea you won't hear repeated in the national broadsheets...

What if the AFL's testing regime has actually driven some footballers to try, or otherwise use, drugs that aren't going to show up in the normal urine test like cocaine or MDMA?
 
The football club would not respond to suggestions that Tuck was found to have used the illicit "party" drug known as GBH — gamma hydroxybutyrate — a liquid amphetamine.
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Wut.
 
That article by Caroline Wilson was on back page of The West Australian today and contains some potentially harmful misinformation.

GHB is literally one of the furthest things from a "liquid amphetamine", it's a drug of a sedative/hypnotic nature and a very potent one at that. That's some startlingly dangerous misinformation that could be the death of ignorant users. And call it GHB, not GBH, those initials don't even make sense and from my point of view are only used so the media can thow in the 'Grievous Bodily Harm' sensationalist bullshit.

I also find it very curious that;
"During a search of the vehicle, a small glass jar containing clear liquid was located along with drug paraphernalia.

"Police will not be pursuing any charges in relation to this incident."
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Police not pursuing any charges? The bloke had G and drug paraphernalia in his possession and no charges? Something isn't making sense.
 
puckboy said:
Police not pursuing any charges? The bloke had G and drug paraphernalia in his possession and no charges? Something isn't making sense.
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i too initially thought the same thing. saw somewhere that police commented on that saying "they wouldn't be pursuing so as to set an example for people who need help to come forward and not be dismayed by police action."

seems pretty good to me i guess, not sure how true, but if it is then good on 'em.
 
My mate has a picture with jarryd hayne when he was off chops at a festival couple years ago
 
bud.lightyear said:
i too initially thought the same thing. saw somewhere that police commented on that saying "they wouldn't be pursuing so as to set an example for people who need help to come forward and not be dismayed by police action."

seems pretty good to me i guess, not sure how true, but if it is then good on 'em.
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Call me suspicious, but I'd be much more inclined to think it went more along the lines of a snitch + the "set a good example" cover story".

If they did indeed let him off scott free that's a great sign of change in the police force.
 

Operation Ice Nightfall snares league men
September 12, 2010 - 4:08PM

A rugby league coach, trainer and players are among those charged with drug offences in southeast Queensland.

Former Australian schoolboys and NRL player Anthony "Chook" Fowler, currently coach of the Goodna and District Rugby League Football Club, Goodna trainer Anthony Kerslake and Goodna player Matthew Smith are among those facing charges as a result of Operation Ice Nightfall which targeted amphetamine and cocaine trafficking.

One player at each of the Ipswich Rugby League's Norths and Brothers clubs were also arrested and charged.

Goodna club president Gary Parker confirmed that Fowler, Kerslake and Smith had been stood down.

"The whole three have been stood down from their commitments at the club - they haven't been suspended or anything - pending what comes out of their trials," Mr Parker said.

Goodna are due to meet Brothers for the right to play Swifts in the local league grand final.

Queensland Rugby League board member and chairman of the league in southeast Queensland, Peter Betros, confirmed the charges and standing down of the accused men.

"It's a society problem," Mr Betros said.

"We don't believe it involves rugby league in this case."

Mr Betros said rugby league had the best drug testing regime of any code and was determined to rub drugs out of the game.

He said the league was "totally shocked" by the charges.

The clubs had acted to stand the players down and had not been instructed to do so by the QRL, he said.

Queensland police said Operation Ice Nightfall began in April and focused on an alleged network of drug traffickers operating out of southeast Queensland.

Thirty search warrants were acted on in Brisbane's southern suburbs, Ipswich, Gold Coast/Tweed Heads and Maroochydore areas.

Five people were charged in Brisbane's south, 11 on the Gold Coast and 12 in the Ipswich area.

Detective Superintendent John Pointing of the State Drug Investigation Unit said the closure of the operation was the result of a commitment to disrupt distribution networks.

"This has been a significant operation," he said. "It has been a targeted operation focusing on the supply and distribution of dangerous drugs by organised syndicates into major metropolitan areas."

Further arrests are expected, police said.

AAP


SMH
 
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