Educating High Schoolers is a way forward in the Battle Against Ice/Crystal Meth AAIC In-School Education Workshop Gold Coast teenagers are growing up in an environment where the highly addictive and destructive Methamphetamine drug, Ice, is easily accessible and in arguably epidemic proportions, impacting on our police, ambulance, hospitals, detox and rehabilitation facilities and mental health workers, as reported in
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Is this just the tip of the ICEberg? Gold Coast ice epidemic: Arrests soar by 250 per cent in less than a decade Lea Emery and Jessica Elder, Gold Coast Bulletin August 13, 2016 12:00am ARRESTS for possessing the horror drug ice have soared by 250 per cent on the Gold Coast in less than a decade. Police statistics show
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Is it just a lot of Hype This Ice Thing? Full coverage: Australia’s war on ice Crystal methamphetamine, better known as ice, was declared a “national menace” by Tony Abbott during his time as prime minister. Highly addictive, the drug can be turned out in makeshift laboratories and has devastating effects on its users. The impact is perhaps being felt
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CONTEXT Australian governments spent approximately $1.7 billion in 2009/10 on illicit drugs.( https://dpmp.unsw.edu.au/project/australian-government-spending-drugs-drug-budgets) This included programs to prevent or delay the commencement of drug use in young people, drug treatment services including counselling and pharmacotherapy maintenance, harm reduction programs such as the needle syringe program, police detection and arrest in relation to drug crimes and policing the borders of Australia
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Part 1 of 2 Drug Survey TRUTH Remove the First And Last Letter and we have RUT Are we in a rut in the way we collect and present critical data? This just released from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), the latest and twelfth 2016 National Drug Strategy Household Survey. At first glance, it looks promising. ‘Fewer teenagers are
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Crystal Meth or Ice is not a ‘His’ or ‘Her’ Problem……. Ice is an ‘Our Problem’ lce doesn’t discriminate. It affects people from all walks of life, contrary to what a stereotypically often held view happens to be. The typical image is a young, minority male who comes from a low socioeconomic background, is unemployed and involved with criminal activity.
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Many local businesses face alcohol and drug related challenges. Research shows 70% of drug users in Australia are employed. Did you know that 80% of U.S.A. businesses have drug and alcohol policy and testing, yet only 10% have it in Australia.
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Knowledge is Power: George Patriki presenting Dual Diagnosis Training. They say that knowledge is power and this group of volunteers, paraprofessionals and professionals evaluated the two days of Dual Diagnosis training as being life-changing. The reason they came was that they were working on a voluntary or paid basis with individuals who were struggling with addictions- mostly substance abuse. Over
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SAMHI’s ‘Living Life Without Drugs’ programs aim to give you, as an everyday person, the tools and confidence to support and help someone living with substance abuse and mental health issues. NEW: Substance Abuse & Mental Health Interventions SAMHI Chemically Speaking Two (2 hr Brief Intervention) available ONLINE now at www.samhi.online Hi, thank you for your interest in our 2 hour SAMHI Chemically Speaking Two (Brief Intervention) training program. This course
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Tripod Key to Recovery The Tripod of Support is the 10th key (see Training Keys) and is about helping people and keeping them safe and keeping their momentum going during their recovery. #1 Counselling is needed to help work through the underlying issues. #2 Secondly, having a support group and attending meetings whether it’s AA or Narcotics Anonymous or Gamblers
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