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21st February 2024 09:40
Victorian Legislative Council, Melbourne

DAVID ETTERSHANK — To move —

That this House notes that —

  • the most recent available figures show that there are four times as many residential rehabilitation beds as there are residential withdrawal (also known as detox) beds in Victoria;
  • people are unable to access rehabilitation services until they have been through withdrawal;
  • the disparity between the number of residential rehabilitation beds and residential detox beds results in critical and often life-threatening delays to people’s recovery;

and calls on the Allan government to urgently fund more residential detox beds to ease this rehabilitation bottleneck.

[ENDS]

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