Today's front page highlights yet another serious issue involving ice with frontline health workers being injured in trying to control ice-affected patients.

Earlier in the week the 'ice' headlines centred on 'bush' football with allegations players as young as 14 were using the substance to enhance performance.

We have also watched ice destroy successful businesses and break once perfectly normal functioning families apart

There's a lot of talk about the damage ice is doing to communities but are we truly serious about action?

We can't accept a community where doctors, nurses, ambulance officers, health workers and security staff are facing violence and aggression from ice-affected patients.

Stories such as that of a nurse doing her best to assist a teenage girl seriously affected by ice who responds by trying to bite chunks from her arm brings a sharp focus to the seriousness of this issue. 

It's clear something must be done.

The time for action is now.