In more than 20 years of working in the alcohol, drug and mental health fields, I have never forgotten the first principle I learnt when I began work at the Australian Drug Foundation: there is no such thing as a drug problem, there are only people problems.
We are all drug users. We grow up in a drug-using culture. We quickly learn that drugs are good for us. In every household in Australia there are dispensing policies, ways of using prescribed drugs, over-the-counter drugs and recreational drugs including tea, coffee and alcohol.
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