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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 50+
Pauline
Pauline started smoking cannabis daily in her mid-teens and continued during her twenties while at university.
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Amy
As a teenager growing up in the suburbs, Amy felt like she didn’t fit in with the young people in her neighbourhood.
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Grace
Grace began taking heroin in her twenties and has taken it fairly regularly since then.
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Helen
When Helen was in her twenties, she ‘drifted into’ a ‘population of people’ who took heroin and began taking it herself.
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Rachel
Rachel began taking heroin, cannabis and cocaine in her late teens, and says her consumption ‘escalated’ in her early twenties.
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Annemarie
When she was in her early twenties, Annemarie experienced anxiety and panic attacks, and was prescribed benzodiazepines.
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