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    Family Drug Support

    Supporting families affected by alcohol and other drugs in Australia.
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Two new QLD positions available

QLD (Brisbane) Family Worker to support the Qld Manager

FDS is seeking a motivated family worker to support the Manager to establish and expand the service in Queensland, based in Brisbane covering the State of Queensland.

QLD (Rockhampton) Family Worker to support the Qld Manager

FDS is seeking a motivated family worker to support the Manager to establish and expand the service in Central Queensland, based in Rockhampton covering Central Queensland.

Pill testing demonstration

Tony Trimingham speaking on behalf of families at a pill testing demonstration at the Ted Noffs Foundation.
 
 

Music festival tragedy

A 22-year-old man has died at a music festival after taking an unknown substance and it has created a fresh debate on pill testing.
 
 

Opinion piece written by David Caldicott from Canberra’s Calvary Hospital

Stop sacrificing young lives at an altar of drug dogma
Author - DAVID CALDICOTT
DECEMBER 11, 2018
 
I am the very proud father of some very naughty children, and I would happily walk through fire for them. I am also an emergency consultant with an interest in illicit drug overdoses and, by obvious extension, how to reduce them. This year, I was proud to be part of an extraordinary coalition of individuals who conducted Australia’s first government-sanctioned pilot pill test in the ACT.
 
Since the death of yet another young man at a music festival this weekend, from a presumed overdose, it is in this latter capacity that I have been asked, on several occasions now, “How do you feel about another festival death in NSW?” He has a name: Callum Brosnan.
 

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