Report NSW Drug Summit 18/12/2024 Drug Summit Justice Theme photo click Justice Action (JA) attended the 2024 Drug Summit aimed at improving the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities affected by drugs and alcohol. The drug summit, held from December 4-5 in Sydney brought together 450 people including health experts, service providers, law enforcement and […]
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Social Solution for Mental Health Challenges
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The Justice Action Team attended the second hearing on 16/10/2023, and many participants received the JA Media handout (accessible here). This is a report of the evidence in advance of the full transcript being available later. Whilst the first hearing looked at lived experience, the second hearing focused on evidence from practitioners, community support services,
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Chemical restraint is regarded as negative and coercive behaviour inflicted on mental health consumers. The medical profession has defined its regular use of forced medication, against the preference of the consumer, not as chemical restraint but as “treatment”. It justifies that position by making a diagnosis and acting on a norm adopted by the medical
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Harrow M, Jobe TH, Tong L. (2021). Twenty-year effects of antipsychotics in schizophrenia and affective psychotic disorders. Psychological Medicine, 1–11.This is a particularly damning study against the use of forced medication. This study investigated, over a 20-year period, the effect of antipsychotic medication upon a large number of patients suffering schizophrenia. The particularly damning finding
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OVERVIEW Nathan Chetty is a gentle person of Indian-Fijian descent, who is almost blind. Nathan had been traumatised following threats from a family member. In 2015 he was accused of pulling overhead electrical wires while standing on the car in the garage, responding to a perceived threat of electrical damage. Since 2015 he has been
Purpose This document provides advice on how to successfully tackle forced medication for people under Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) so that they can retake personal control of your life. This practice of forced medication should be stopped so individuals can personally shape the plan they need to recover balance in their lives. The material below
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22 April 2020 Dear Commissioner, On behalf of Justice Action, our team is reaching out to you regarding the urgent need to exercise your
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As a member of the Australian Capital Territory Council of Social Services (ACTCOSS), as well as an ‘essential’ presence at the NSW Drug Summit and International Conference on Penal Abolition (ICOPA) (1997), Justice Action support the decriminalisation of drug use in Australia. Australian drug laws are regressive, punitive and harbour a very strict approach as they are influenced by the ‘war on drugs’ mentality. Instead, legislative change must be implemented to enable the introduction of a Needle and Syringe Program (NSP) in the Alexander Maconochie Centre (AMC) in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) for those who wish to use it. This is to ensure the prevention of disease transmission within prisons, as well as to secure detainees’ rights to an equivalent healthcare system.