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Subscriber only Gympie region and south east Queensland battled its biggest drug problem in nearly two decades when lockdown lifted in May, with a new generation of pushers who are using Instagram as their dial-a-dealer platform of choice. Many turned their homes into major drug mail order operations or grow houses and meth labs, with the problem now so widespread professional chemical cleaning companies have warned tenants moving into a rental to get their property tested for drug contamination. Despite all of this, reports of drug offences in the Gympie region have slightly dipped in the past 12 months, with 1200 reported drug offences investigated by the Gympie police in the past two years, and 554 in the past year.