Two speakers –
1) Jack Warhaft, addiction medicine specialist and recovered alcoholic/addict
- works at Malvern Private and First Step
- based on Recovery Mgmt (William L White)
- Intro, Initiation, Stabilising, Maintenance, Enhancement
- most public facilities do 7-day, some private offer 28d residential
- emphasis on global health and citizenship
- heavy reliance on 12-step programs – AA in most regional centres, many different fellowship groups
- underlying compulsion to drink/use leads to depression and anxiety, so anti-depressants drugs should be considered rarely in first instance
Amelia Callaghan, Odyssey House
- therapeutic community at Lower Plenty (Sydney, NZ, USA)
- 40 supported accom houses across Vic
- residential 12-18m
- Info sessions Wed 1pm at Richmond office, followed by Assessment and weekly support programs till intake (currently 6w, has been up to 4m)
- see brochure for restrictions on ORTs at intake, rules for residents
- tobacco allowed, not alcohol
Also present – rep from Vic Addiction Centre (used to be Ivanhoe Manor and at Warburton) [Healthscope]
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