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March 15, 2013, 9 p.m. A MALDON woman was given one last chance to break her drug habit in Ballarat Magistrates Court yesterday. Zanda Green, 26, received a 12-month jail sentence, with a three month non-parole period, for an aggravated burglary in February and stealing from Safeway in December to which she pleaded guilty to yesterday. Magistrate Frank Jones commended Green on how well she looked, describing her remand hearing last month as not pretty. Green, who has spent 23 days on remand, admitted she had no memory of her last court appearance due to her drug dependency. Police prosecutor Senior Constable Steve Kent said Green entered the Safeway supermarket in Albert Street, Sebastopol, on December 30 last year, putting items in her handbag before running out. She was apprehended by a passing Ballarat Highway Patrol unit at a nearby block of flats. A search of her car revealed more stolen supermarket items, totalling $1000. The court had previously heard Green was caught by a homeowner after she broke into his home on February 21. Senior Constable Kent said a search of Green showed she had a pocket knife on her at the time. Defence counsel Mike Wardell said Greens … Continue reading →

For "calming down": Bex was popular throughout the 1960s and '70s. There used to be a stoic resistance to taking drugs to treat even the worst of ailments. Migraines, muscle pain and insomnia were seen by the Silent Generation - those who came before the baby boomers - as treatable through a cup of tea, a warm bath, a lie down or some fresh air. But come the 1960s and a medical element was added to that mix after a marketing phrase entered the vernacular - ''Have a cup of tea, a Bex and a good lie down''. Bex, the analgesic comprised of aspirin, phenacetin and caffeine, became an Australian icon. It was recommended to treat headaches, colds, flu, fevers, rheumatism, nerve pain and for ''calming down''. Dr Alex Wodak. Photo: Ari Hatzis Dissolving Bex in tea became particularly common among housewives. It was sometimes taken up to three times a day. Advertisement It wasn't until the 1970s that clinicians realised Bex and other similar substances were responsible for kidney disease and addiction, and were carcinogenic. Phenacetin was pulled from the market by 1983. But the damage had been done, says the director of the national centre for education and … Continue reading →