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The Tasmanian Alcohol and Drug Service offers a range of information, education, treatment and community-based supports for Tasmanians affected by alcohol and drug use. Our services are free, voluntary and confidential.
We provide a number of programs to help people and their families with alcohol, tobacco and other drug issues.
Our services include:
- intake and assessment
- case management and coordination of care
- withdrawal management (detox services)
- relapse prevention
- secondary consultation
- brief intervention
- counselling, group work and therapy
- health promotion, information and community education.
We are located in Launceston, Hobart and Ulverstone with services provided to rural areas.
To access services we require an Intake and Referral form to be completed. For any queries please call Statewide Alcohol and Drug Service, phone 1300 139 641.
‘Your say’ advocacy is all about helping you to be heard and understood.
If you are unable to speak for yourself, or find it difficult, an Advocate can help you.
We can provide information about your rights and help you to deal with problems or complaints.
Best of all, everything we do for you is: free, confidential, independent and professional!
What can we help with?
Something you don't understand.
The way you're being treated doesn't feel right.
Not getting what you're asking for.
Who can we help?
We work with older people, people living with disability or mental health issues, and people who use alcohol or drugs.
Nitazenes are extremely potent synthetic opioids with pain relieving effects.
It might also be referred to as:
benzimidazole opioids, etonitazene, flunitazene, iso, isotonitazene, meto, metonitazene, New Psychoactive Substances (NPS), nitazine, proton, protonitazene, synthetic opioids
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As a parent or guardian, what do you need to know about drug and alcohol laws? This factsheet from Positive Choices is a good place to start.
Lean is a mixture of cough syrup (containing codeine and promethazine) and soft drink.
It might also be referred to as:
Barre, Candy Drank, Codeine and Promethazine, Dirty Sprite, Muddy Cap, Oil, Player Potion, Purp, Purple Concussion, Purple Drank, Purple Jelly, Purple Oil, Purple Stuff, Purple Tonic, Robo Tripping, Sip-Sip, Sizzurp, Syrup, Texas Tea
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Nitrous Oxide is an inhalant drug with pain relieving effects.
It might also be referred to as:
balloons, bulbs, buzz bomb, cream canisters, cream chargers, hippy crack, Laughing gas, N2O, nangs, nawz, nitro, nitrous, NOS, whippet, xanadu
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Thujone is a hallucinogenic drug which confuses the messages between the body and brain.
It might also be referred to as:
Absinthe, Wormwood
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Synthetic Cannabis is a man-made drug which is meant to provide similar effects to THC, a component in Cannabis. Because these drugs are very new, we don't know much about their effects.
It might also be referred to as:
Black Mamba, Herbal Incense, Herbal Smoking Blend, JWH-018, JWH-2250, JWH-73, K2, Kaos, Nothern Lights, Spice, Spice Product
PCP is a hallucinogenic drug which confuses the messages between the body and brain.
It might also be referred to as:
Amoeba, Angel Dust, Boat, Crystal Joints, Dips, Doa, Elephant Tranquiliser, Embalming Fluid, Hob, Jet Fuel, Killer Weed, Krystal Joints, Love Boats, Magic Dust, Mint Weed, Monkey Bust, Paz, PCP, Peace Pill, Phencyclidine, Pinners, Sernyl, Sherms, Superkools, Wac, Water, Zombie
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Opioids are depressant drugs which slow down the messages between the body and brain.
It might also be referred to as:
Apache, Beige, Beige Powder, Beige Powder, Big H, Big Harry, Big O, Black Tar, Black Tar, Blatt, Block, Blow Horse, Brown Rocks, Brown Rocks, Brown Sugar, Bugger, Captain Cody, Captain Jack, Chase, China Brown, China Girl, China H, China White, Chinese H, Chinese Rock, Chitari, Codeine, Dolly, Dolophine, Done, Dope, Dose, Dragon, Dragon Powder, Dust, Elephant, Fentanyl, Fix, Gear, H, Hammer, Harry, Harry, Heroin, Hop, Horse, Horse, Jackpot, Joy Powder, Jungle Juice, Junk, Junk, Junk, Loads, M, Meth, Methadone, Methadone Linctus, Methadone Mixture, Metho, Mexican Brown, Miss Emma, Monkey, Morf, Morph, Morphine, MS Contin, Murder 8, Number 4 White, O, Opium, Petrol, Physeptanef Injections, Physeptone Tablets, Pink Rocks, Piss, Poison, Poppies, Pure, Rock, Scag, Scat, Schoolboy, Shit, Skag, Skunk, Slow, Smack, Stuff, The Grouse, Thing, Vitamin H, Whack, White, White Dynamite, White Horse
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Nicotine is a stimulant drug which speeds up the messages between the body and brain.
It might also be referred to as:
Acetone, Ammonia, Bidis, Cancer Stick, Carbon Monoxide, Chew, Cigarette, Cigarettes, Cigars, Ciggie, Darts, Durry, Duzza, Fag, Fags, Gaspers, Hydrogen Cyanide, Nicotine, Papers, Rolly, Smoke, Smokers, Smoking, Smoko, Tar, Tobacco
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Naloxone is a medicine which can quickly reverse an opioid overdose.
It might also be referred to as:
Narcan
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