O'Callaghan Calls for More Money for Prison Drug Rehabilitation

Published June 30, 2013

O'Callaghan calls for more money for prison drug rehabilitation

Filed under: drug rehabilitation

Mr O'Callaghan said intervention in prison was vital to break the drug and offending habits, saying if there was not enough rehabilitation in the prison system, once an inmate is released “they know where to access drugs and they go into the same circles.”
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Baby boomers driving drug rehab programs

Filed under: drug rehabilitation

Australia's ageing baby boomers are driving demand for drug addiction services, with a doubling of the proportion of over-50s seeking help to get off opioid drugs such as heroin. They now make up almost one-fifth of the 47,000 people who receive …
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Bernard Hickey: Reform tax to spread recovery fairly

Filed under: drug rehabilitation

Drug addicts and alcoholics can appear normal, even when drugged and boozed to the eyeballs. They can even go to work as long as they are "medicated". Only when drugs and the booze are withdrawn do we see their real state. We saw this week what …
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