Author: Perry Jewell, Addict Association Inc,Toowoomba

DETOX CENTRE'S WORK VITAL

WE WANT to place on record our support for the Abaleen detox service
at Clayfield. (Raiders seize patient's record, July 9). Without any
help from the government, this group of dedicated people has worked
night and day to provide a service not adequately addressed by the
government.

Parents, carers and organisations such as ours can only assume the
worst about the government's agenda.

Its recent boutique brothel laws will help facilitate the laundering
of drug money as the majority of prostitutes are entrapped by the
"invisible chain" of their drug addiction.

Now, it seems, it is going to harass unfunded detox organisations,
even when they are extremely successful.

Can we now expect police raids on the many parents who opt to conduct
home detoxes for their sons and daughters?

Abaleen should be helped, not hindered, in its critical, life-saving
work.