26 Sep Alcohol – Scott
When Scott was in his early twenties, he went drinking regularly with his friends. He also worked at a nightclub, which he says gave him many opportunities to drink. Soon he was drinking every day of the week....
26 Sep Alcohol – Phoenix
Phoenix says he grew up in a ‘violent home’ and that his parents were ‘alcoholics’. In his mid-teens his parents separated and he left home and began drinking regularly. In his late teens he had a motorcycle accident and sustained injuries that give him chronic...
25 Sep Alcohol – Opal
Opal started drinking in his late teens in the evenings after work. He continued to do so into his thirties, when he also began taking codeine and oxycodone to treat pain from a motor vehicle accident and work-related injuries. Several years later, at the suggestion...
25 Sep Alcohol – Luke
Luke started drinking socially in his late teens and continued through his twenties. In his early thirties, while working in a ‘high pressure’ job, he began drinking every day as a ‘release’ and a way to ‘block’ feelings of depression and anxiety. ...
24 Sep Alcohol – George
George started drinking after his wife died and says he thinks he has an ‘alcohol habit’. After being hospitalised for seizures, he went to a residential rehabilitation facility for ten days where he ‘dried out’. Since then, he’s reduced his alcohol consumption and now only...
24 Sep Alcohol – Emma
Emma started drinking as a teenager and by her mid-twenties she says she had a ‘serious problem’ with alcohol. She’s been through several kinds of drug treatment, including Alcoholics Anonymous, short detoxes, residential rehabilitation programs and a ‘non-residential post-withdrawal treatment program’. ...
23 Sep Cannabis – Dylan
Dylan began drinking alcohol and smoking ‘yarndi’ (cannabis) with his friends in his early teens and continued to do so into his early twenties. After losing custody of his youngest child a year before the interview, he became isolated from his friends and family, and...
23 Sep Alcohol – Ben
Ben started drinking and smoking cannabis as a teenager when hanging out with friends. In his early twenties, he began drinking more often as he experienced work stress, financial difficulties and increased responsibilities after becoming a parent....
22 Sep Alcohol – Dawn
In her late twenties Dawn started drinking heavily on Saturdays when her children were visiting their grandmother. One Saturday evening when out with her friends she was arrested for violent behaviour, and court ordered to attend an anger management course and alcohol and other drug...
21 Sep Alcohol – Angelo
Angelo began drinking in his early teens at family functions and his consumption increased a few years later when he started going to parties with friends. He then started drinking in the evenings after work and more heavily on the weekends when out with friends....
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