I’m so used to saying the F word, that I didn’t really notice the C-word until this week when my youngest daughter told me that she might not have to go to school because of Corona Virus. Immediately I thought, wait … is this a...
So, it’s official … the world has gone mad and we’re running out of toilet paper! Although I have to say the cleanliness in prisons has improved hugely which is great news for the germ-phobes amongst us! J The changing landscape regarding the C-word has...
HOW DO YOU RECOGNISE ADDICTION IN YOUR CHILDREN OR PARTNERS? It is very difficult to see someone we love self-destructing with their addiction. We often feel helpless as we watch them make poor choices and we often enable them even though we think we are doing...
Personality wise, we all have different thinking styles, and as a result, some of us are more predisposed to anxiety than others. Therefore, when we understand the underlying personality-based triggers and how they originate from our fears, we’re then able to put effective strategies into...
One of the key myths about prison is that prisoners are rehabilitated in prison. If those prisoners are drug addicted, the average tax-payer would assume that the prisoner receives treatment to prevent them being released and doing it all again. Karl O’Callaghan said it best in...
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Great news as ban overturned for drug-addicted prisoners now they will be able to access a self-funded drug rehab and counselling program after the WA government overturned an earlier call to withdraw support for the long-running service. The Whitehaven Clinic, which has provided drug counselling services...
A leading Perth rehabilitation clinic that has supported hundreds of drug-addicted prisoners has been banned from running counselling programs in West Australian jails. Counsellors from The Whitehaven Clinic have been denied access to eight WA prisons to continue drug counselling sessions for 56 inmates after the...
WHAT IS HARM MINIMISATION? Harm minimisation defines harm reduction as the policies, programmes and practices that aim to reduce the harms associated with the use of psychoactive drugs in people unwilling or unable to stop. So… the aim is to not try and STOP someone using drugs...
EXCLUSIVE, Phoebe Wearne WA’s methamphetamine epidemic is transforming the State’s prison population with more than half of inmates now locked up for drug offences, assault or burglary. Department of Justice figures reveal an increase of almost 70 per cent in adults jailed for drug offences. Prisoners whose most...