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The ‘huge backlog’ of people waiting for a public bed for drug and alcohol treatment in Victoria
Victorians with a drug or alcohol problem are struggling to access publicly-funded addiction treatment beds as waiting times blow out because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Key points:
- The number of treatment beds had to be cut back during the peak of the pandemic due to social distancing requirements
- Odyssey House has a waiting list of up to three months for residential rehabilitation
- The sector is bracing for “suppressed demand” now restrictions are lifting again
Beating dependency is often a two-step process: weaning off the substance at a residential withdrawal clinic, before learning how to live without it at a rehabilitation facility.
One of the state’s biggest residential withdrawal clinics, Uniting ReGen at Ivanhoe, in Melbourne’s…
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