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What is drug and alcohol addiction and how to get help?

Settlement Guide: What is drug and alcohol addiction and how to get help?

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In Australia, one in twenty deaths are caused by alcohol or illicit drugs.Nearly one in five adults drink at risky levels and 16 per cent of the population has tried an illicit drug in the past year. Julio was just experiencing the freedom of adulthood as an eighteen-year-old when he had his first taste of an illicit drug.Little did he know that his curiosity would gradually escalate into a 13-year battle with addiction to methamphetamine? Here the story...



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