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How to Provide Support for a Loved One Staying in a Rehab Facility
When a loved one succumbs to addiction, everyone is affected. Some families even crumble under the pressure. You may feel hurt and betrayed, and experience almost as much pain and suffering as the ones who…
How to Become an Ambassador for Addiction Prevention
If you’re passionate about making a change to help the lives of those affected by addiction, why not consider becoming an addiction ambassador? Discover how to become an ambassador for addiction prevention and the steps…
Dual Diagnosis and Harm Reduction: Practical Support and Resources for People with Co-Occurring Mental Health and Alcohol and Other Drug Issues
In 2015, the North Brisbane Partners in Recovery consortium approached QNADA to undertake a project working with community managed mental health services to improve access to harm reduction resources and specialist AOD treatment services for…
Betrayal Trauma: Working with Partners of Sex Addicts
It’s hard being the partner of a sex addict. Really hard! Discovering the person you love and have committed to be in relationship with has been unfaithful is heart shattering. Finding out this same person…
March 16, 2018
Revisiting the Treatment and Recovery of Sex Addiction Infidelity
Recovery from sex addiction infidelity is painful and complex. Evidence suggests that there are an increased number of people who suffer from this form of sex addiction, specifically heterosexual males in married or committed relationships….
Brainspotting: A Remarkable New Therapy, Stopping Addiction Relapse in its Tracks
As a 30+ year veteran as a trauma and addiction therapist, Dr Roby Abeles, has incorporated the brilliance of Brainspotting therapy with her knowledge of addiction and trauma, to actually utilise brain plasticity to create…
March 1, 2018
Livesofsubstance.org: Tackling Stigma with Real Stories
‘Chains of addiction’, ‘addiction epidemic’, ‘reformed addict’ – coverage of drug issues in the media has long relied on negative clichés. In 2014 researchers based at the National Drug Research Institute (NDRI), Curtin University, Australia,…
November 15, 2017
How To Help A Loved One You Think Is Drinking Too Much
For many of us, drinking alcohol is part and parcel of socialising with friends or relaxing after work, meaning we often forget it’s a potentially debilitating drug. “Whilst drinking can sometimes bring us pleasure, if we’re honest…
October 25, 2017
Four Years After it was Scrapped, Drug Court will Return to Queensland
Four years after it was scrapped by the LNP, the drug court will return to Queensland. The specialist court will begin as a pilot program Brisbane in November, helping people with drug and alcohol-related offences…