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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Ben Doherty

Villawood, Australia’s largest immigration detention centre, said to be ‘awash with drugs’

A supplied image described as showing a ziplock baggie full of buprenorphine found at the Villawood detention centre.
A supplied image described as showing a ziplock baggie full of buprenorphine found at the Villawood detention centre. Photograph: Suppied

Australia’s largest immigration detention centre is “awash with drugs”, sources inside the Villawood detention centre say, with several detailing an extensive drug-smuggling operation.

Photographs from inside the centre show marijuana and “bupe” – buprenorphine, an opioid medication – in numerous compounds across the facility, which currently holds 450 people, in western Sydney.

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