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donnashuggy · ‎08-04-2015

For those addicted to the drug.

alexander*beetle · ‎08-04-2015

@myoclon1cjerk wrote:
A PR stunt,but then,I'm a cynic.

Every reason to be a cynic considering the Council for Alcohol and other Drugs with over 46 years of research available has been axed. As was the Aboriginal Council for Alcohol and other Drugs. And over $200 million funding for treatment programs cut. One has to wonder who is going to advise this TaskForce when all the experts have been give the boot. Perhaps Wiki will give them the answers.

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i-need-a-martini · ‎09-04-2015

Ice is a drug like no other. The addiction take up is almost instant and it is cheap enough for kids to start using young. And treatment is almost never successful

To waste time and money arresting users is the stupidest thing I ever heard.

The task force should have been led with a social agenda, not a law and order agenda. The focus should be on manufacturers and education, not on users.

And (call me cynical but) over the last year or so the Abbott government has stopped funding research for addiction and treatment plus it has moved funding for many post-recovery and rehabilitation programmes for drug users almost entirely to non governement bodies. Up until last week, even that funding was had been axed. Government funding is now almost non existent to the most vulnerable groups such as indigenous youth.

And it's not as if we are talkng big money here - we are only talking about $15mill a year! This is the same amount of money that the government has wasted trying to sell Pynes tertiary education ideas.

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polksaladallie · ‎06-05-2015

Last night on 7.30 report, it was stated that 70% of methamphetamine users are recreational users.

So poof goes the theory (repeated here and by the PM) that it is so addictive that one use puts the user into a downward spiral.

It was also stated that this telling of untruths leads to young people believing nothing about the harmful effects of drugs, and therefore not listening to any drug education.

Part 2 is on tonight.

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polksaladallie · ‎08-04-2015

Nothing much for them, as other law and order campaigns have done nothing in the past for addicts, but is that what the aim really is?

*pepe · ‎08-04-2015

probably create treatment programs that the addicts won't ever bother to use to help themselves.

lind9650 · ‎08-04-2015

One way of job creation and showing the public that Governement cares. No waste of money as far as they are concerned.

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donnashuggy · ‎08-04-2015

@polksaladallie wrote:
Nothing much for them, as other law and order campaigns have done nothing in the past for addicts, but is that what the aim really is?

I wonder if they are more dangerous when suffering from withdrawals than on the drug.

donnashuggy · ‎08-04-2015

@*pepe wrote:
probably create treatment programs that the addicts won't ever bother to use to help themselves.

The injecting room gets used doesn't it?

polksaladallie · ‎08-04-2015

The announcement is a bit too coincidental IMO.

Hint.........law and order is trotted out before every state election, so my view is that there are other motives here.

polksaladallie · ‎08-04-2015

Listen to this interview to put it into perspective. The government has been made aware of problems for years, and funding has been cut.

He says that "command and control" method will fail. All methods like this have failed for the last 50 years.

Time to try another method, and pigs will fly first.

http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2015/04/bst_20150408_0836.mp3

poddster · ‎08-04-2015

The use of elicit drugs is against the law. Those who have addicted themselves to their use should be deprived of them and charged as having broken the law.

there is too much namby pamby in the treatment of those who are suffering from SELF INFLICTED addiction.

What would you suggest D?

I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

*pepe · ‎08-04-2015

@donnashuggy wrote:
@*pepe wrote:
probably create treatment programs that the addicts won't ever bother to use to help themselves.
The injecting room gets used doesn't it?

that isn't a treatment program

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