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Defining & Explaining Addiction
What is addiction or dependence?
Identifying or being diagnosed
Everyday Life with an Addiction, Dependence or Drug Habit
Consumption in everyday life
Relationships, confidentiality & telling others
Work, study & making ends meet
Dealing with stigma & discrimination
General Health & Accessing Healthcare
Looking after health & well-being
Living with illness or a health condition
Living with a mental health condition
Contact with the criminal justice system
Creating Change: Treatment, Self-help & Other Responses
Changing patterns of consumption
Pharmacotherapy/medication-assisted treatment
Talking therapies
Residential treatment
Formal & informal detox
Self-help programs
What is recovery & how important is it?
Advice & Messages to Others
Consumers, family & friends
Health professionals & policymakers
Personal Stories
Experiences By Drug Type
Alcohol
Cannabis
Heroin
Ecstasy & Other Party Drugs
Prescription & Over-the-Counter Drugs
Speed, Ice & Other Stimulants
Experiences By Age and Gender
Women Aged 18-29
Women Aged 30-39
Women Aged 40-49
Women Aged 50+
Men Aged 18-29
Men Aged 30-39
Men Aged 40-49
Men Aged 50+
Resources & Information
Key Terms
Team & Thanks
Further perspectives on alcohol
Women Aged 18-29
Anika
Anika has smoked cannabis on a regular basis since her mid-teens. She says she smokes to ‘chill out’, and ‘be more open…happy and content with life’.
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Eva
Eva first tried ice when she was a teenager with some friends, thinking it was speed.
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Louise
When Louise first started smoking cannabis regularly, her parents encouraged her to seek alcohol and other drug counselling.
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Scarlett
Scarlett first tried ice in her early twenties but didn’t take it again for a couple of years. Then she started taking it with her partner every couple of months.
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Melanie
Melanie started taking ice in her early twenties and after a while she began to feel like her consumption had become ‘problematic’.
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