Treatment for drug and alcohol misuse should involve families and communities
- Written by: Katinka van de Ven, Alcohol and other drug specialist, University of New South Wales &, University of New England
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Alcohol and other drug treatment in Australia is generally only provided for individuals, often away from their families.
Treatment can include withdrawal from the substance, counselling and residential rehabilitation. All these treatments work to improve health and wellbeing and reduce the harms from substances.
But people’s...
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