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Originally Posted by theunbrainwashed
I was perusing the healthcare website of the NT and they have posted on their site that they have a need for drug addiction healthcare workers to stay in the NT. Does NT have a higher rate of drug abuse than other states of Australia?
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I'd suspect that the drug abuse rate is considerably higher in the NT.
When I visited Alice Springs in 2003 I was not expecting to see the level of social dysfunction and alcoholism amongst some of the Aboriginal community there, it was quite shocking.
The federal government in the last few years have provided more government services as well as putting restrictions on alcohol and quarantining welfare payments in certain townships, in attempting to alleviate the problems there.
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