DRUG REHABILITATION NEEDED URGENTLY
The recent experience of a leading Australian sports personality having to travel to the United States of America highlights the need for a centre of excellence in illicit drug rehabilitation in Australia.
The Drug Advisory Council of Australia Comments-
Australia does not have a centre of excellence in drug rehabilitation available to its addicted residents this is why Australians with an illicit drug addiction have to travel overseas to receive rehabilitation.
A centre of excellence in drug rehabilitation with a high success rate in detoxification and rehabilitation is urgently needed now in Australia.
This centre of excellence needs to be based on harm elimination principles to have maximum success in helping Australians addicted to illicit drugs to get completely drug free permanently.
Any centre of excellence will need be audited to ensure at least 90 per cent of addicts achieve drug free status.
Success in achieving drug free status is defined as being drug free for at least 5 years after rehabilitation is completed.
Successful illicit drug rehabilitation will most likely be residential and be based on world’s best practice.
Sweden has proven by its lowering of the number of illicit drug users that it can provide world’s best practice in drug rehabilitation.
All illicit drug rehabilitation funded by taxpayers in Australia should also be audited to determine their success rates.
Audits of all rehabilitation providers should be publicly available for open scrutiny of standardized success rates.
Australian governments need to set a community standard of all rehabilitation providers achieve at least 90 per cent success rate and be measured against a centre of excellence performance.
More detoxification & rehabilitation that gets illicit drug users drug free.
Court ordered and supervised detoxification & rehabilitation.
Less illicit drug users, drug pushers and drug related crimes. 10/2007