The article discusses the launch of an innovative recovery-based model for the delivery of alcohol and other drug (AOD) service in Melbourne, Victoria which provides integrated initial screenings, assessments, treatment plans and community health support to clients. The launch was made in September ...
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treatment and care with the aim of [achieving] as close as possible...universal access to treatment for all those who need it by 2010" [1]. Despite impressive efforts by global health and HIV initiatives (GHIs) such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS,...
This working class basis and subsequent decline in employment has seen a raft of social problems over the past 3 decades, with alcohol, drugs and drug-related violence featuring prominently on the social landscape. A number of traditional working-class suburbs have become dominated by social ...
Studies have reported increased poverty and unemployment, weakened social welfare, increased domestic violence, alcoholism, intra- venous drug use and sex work. These factors fuelled the HIV/AIDS epidemic and created severe financial short- falls in the healthcare system, reducing coverage and ...
Diana Ross Is Treated for Alcohol and Drug AddictionByline: VICTORIA NEWTONNewton, Victoria
Abstractdoi:10.1080/09687637.2022.2117020Michelle RaggattC. DouglassC. WrightHelen ReddanHolly O'ConnellP. DietzeM. LimDrugs: Education, Prevention and Policy
By Victoria KimLos Angeles Times
Brief workshops to teach drug and alcohol first aid: A pilot evaluation studydoi:10.1111/dar.12619Victoria R. KostadinovAnn M. RocheAlice McEnteeJulaine M. AllanNicholas R. MeumannLara L. McLaughlinJohn Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the strategies utilised to facilitate the wellbeing of workers of an alcohol and other drug (AOD) therapeutic community (TC)Design/methodology/approachThis paper reports on the findings of a qualitative study that involved in-depth interviews with 11...