‘Reflections’ by Ann Finlay
...powerless, seeing your child struggling with substance use and other mental health issues and not being able to find community supports for help. It is traumatising and exhausting for families...
...powerless, seeing your child struggling with substance use and other mental health issues and not being able to find community supports for help. It is traumatising and exhausting for families...
...to include a ‘catch-all’ clause (potentially acknowledging the Therapeutic Goods Association scheduled prohibited drugs) to include emerging drug trends. Recommendation 4 The ACT Government should review the drug possession limits...
...the result of years of conditioning from prohibitionist drug policies. It might even be said that mental health diagnoses serve only to complicate and protract the predicament of drug users...
...drought in December 2000 it rapidly displaced the far less potent existing forms of powdered methamphetamine so that by 2001, 3.4% of the Australian population had used meth/amphetamines in the...
...person who uses illicit drugs – whether through the influence of others around them or because they have become addicted – uses a product for which there is absolutely no...
Submission of FFDLR to the inquiry of the ACT Standing Committee on Health, Ageing, Community and Social Services into the exposure draft of the Drugs of Dependence (Cannabis Use for...
https://the-riotact.com/pill-testing-safe-injecting-room-support-jumps-in-act-as-drug-use-goes-up-aihw/389736 “The [National Drug Strategy Household Survey] survey found 57 per cent of Australians supported pill testing (around one-quarter opposed) while 47 per cent supported supervised drug consumption rooms (around...
https://vimeo.com/718541342 00:42:09 – MS STEPHEN-SMITH – Alcohol and other drug use – harm minimisation policy – Ministerial statement 00:50:38 – MS STEPHEN-SMITH/MADAM SPEAKER – continuing 00:58:14 – MR DAVIS/Mr Assistant...
...and the broader community repeats itself. The harm caused in the first place to an individual’s life because of illicit drug use is maximised by this response. Now the person...
...as a society we treated those caught in the web of drug use with more compassion and humanity, we would have a better society. Because you are here today, I’m...