Ice crisis looms for Indigenous communities

Queensland indigenous communities are facing a looming health crisis as ice begins to take hold, a peak health body warns.

Queensland indigenous communities are facing a looming health crisis as ice begins to take hold. (AAP)

Queensland's peak indigenous health body is calling for urgent government intervention to help communities stop an ice addiction crisis.

Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council's Sandy Gillies says communities have little experience or knowledge of methamphetamine and are only just beginning to see the drug's impacts.

The council wants a meeting with Queensland Health Minister Cameron Dick and Director-General of Health Michael Walsh to discuss how to stop the looming health crisis.