Drug treatment move

Drug treatment move

ACON continues to broaden its range of services, now offering in-house treatment options for clients with alcohol and drug dependency issues.

The development of a specialist Substance Support Service comes as a key point in ACON’s newly implemented drug and alcohol strategy.

Entitled Pills and Powders, Parties and Pubs, the three-year strategy includes a push to further develop the organisation’s capacity for dealing with mental illness. It will also see ACON continue to provide education to mainstream service providers and the community.

As ACON grows to meet the needs of our community, it’s essential that our work in this area is guided by a comprehensive strategy to ensure we’re doing the best we can with the resources available to us, ACON CEO Stevie Clayton said.

The strategy has been developed in accordance with the government’s own harm-minimisation approach to dealing with drug and alcohol dependency issues.

info: ACON’s drug and alcohol strategy will be available soon via acon.org.au.

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6 responses to “Drug treatment move”

  1. “ACON teaches people how to use unsafe illicit drugs, and therefore needs educating by the mainstream that, seeing as this is both unsafe and illegal behaviour, the shaky old ACON -˜harm minimisation’ concept (radically modified from the Govt Harm Minimisation concept) merely translates in real terms into -˜harm maintenance” – I was part of the fun and esteem project of ACON and that paragraph resembles EXACTLY what I would say in meetings etc – oh but the consequences where hideouse I was segrated and asked to leave my position literally over night – THATS the ACON mentality

  2. ACON are only into serving themselves and their corporate paymasters at the end of the day. They are up their own PC arses and have the community’s blood on their hands.

  3. WoW! – ATleast this is better then that ridiculouse safesex workshop – just onstep better.

    I reckon ACON should do programs that teach us how to get away with wearing barely nothing at all during winter but staying warm at the same time – That kinda thing would be up ACONS alley.

  4. I also think that every time the SSO opts to print this kind of prefabricated ACON spin sent to it, it should put the content under an ‘advertorial’ heading rather than allow the babble to be unwittingly construed by its readership as -˜journalism’. Placing ACON’s PR in the SSO -˜news’ category is inappropriate when ACON is no more a part of this community that any other government bureaucracy.

    Editor’s Note: Colin, while you are entitled to your opinion, there are plenty of people out there who get benefit greatly from this information and have a genuine interest in knowing what the organisation is up to.

  5. “It will also see ACON continue to provide education to mainstream service providers and the community.”? The ‘facts’ on ACON”S meth factsheet, to give one example, are sourced from the website of ‘Fire’ and ‘Earth’ Erowid, two self confessed L.A. Hippy geeks who receive no government funding because of their whacked pro-drug stance. Another of the Erowid crew, “through advanced holographic trepanation… recently accessed a virtual core sample of his pineal gland, mixed it with dried Banisteriopsis caapi leaves, and then smoked it. He is still working on the experience report.”

    We had to fight ACON for over a year to get accurate info about meth out into this community and it wasn’t until the Commonwealth took over ACON’s pathetic campaign of misinformation, that we came to see the kind of explicit and life-saving education campaigns that are now everywhere.

  6. -œACON continue to provide education to mainstream service providers and the community???
    It really needs to be vice-versa. ACON teaches people how to use unsafe illicit drugs, and therefore needs educating by the mainstream that, seeing as this is both unsafe and illegal behaviour, the shaky old ACON -˜harm minimisation’ concept (radically modified from the Govt Harm Minimisation concept) merely translates in real terms into -˜harm maintenance’. As ACON is too ham-fistedly focused on trying to look drug friendly to recognise the subtle shades in between -˜pro-use’ and -˜prohibition’ it should just shut up instead of perpetuating the myth that people can use safely. Of course, no multi-million SSS corporation will ever just shut up, even while unpaid volunteers do their hard yakka. But nobody is under any illusions that ACON’s nonsensical -˜drug education’ crap has not contributed significantly to the demise of this community’s collective mental health.