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...
What comes to mind when you think of ‘addiction’? We usually have a picture in our mind that arises whenever we hear the word. Sometimes we think of alcohol, sometimes illegal drugs, then often our mind adds to the picture with thoughts of loss of employment,...
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...
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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...
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TWO years ago, back when I was a hardened drinker, I committed to Dry July. My body, and particularly my liver, needed a well earnt break from alcoholic lubrication and I longed for weekends without raging hangovers and carb laden foods. My commitment was questionable from...
by Kate Campbell FUNCTIONING “ice” users maintaining a job and family life are among the 17 callers a day turning to the State’s fledgling Meth Helpline for support. As the insidious drug tightens its grip in WA — which has the unenviable title of Australia’s meth capital...