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BUPRENORPHINE + GROUP THERAPY
(We use Buprenorphine S.P.E.E.Q.E. detox, NOT rapid detox.)

When specialists took over more and more of the hospital work, he gained experience in other fields; a four week residential training course at the Western Institute for Group and Family Therapy in California and the first year of the Gestalt Institute of Perth's part-time training course in psychotherapy; four and a half years as the GP for 100 patients in a nursing home for spinally injured; 9 years as the GP for 75 patients in a state nursing home, which cared for people suffering from multiple serious pathologies, as well as many social and pain problems. This broad experience has proved invaluable in treating people with heroin addiction, as heroin addiction has physical, chemical, mental and social aspects. Dr Beck now treats 60 or 70 drug and alcohol patients each week.

Dr Beck's main interests in Substance Abuse Medicine are; discovering and understanding the differing Pre-existing Underlying Factors in each patient that led to their Drug or Alcohol dependence - addictions don't just occur for no reason, and the reasons vary from person to person; the development and application of a complete bundle of treatments to deal with both the Substance Abuse and The Pre-existing and Underlying causes of that Abuse, in each individual case; enabling substance abusing individuals to become "normal" people; or in some cases, people whose lives are more enriched than "normal" because of the giftedness that often underlies substance abuse, the unique mind stretching although traumatic experiences that people with addictions go through, and the mind expanding and enriching effects that comprehensive treatment of substance abuse may bring.

Dr Beck recognizes the fact that it can be difficult to keep appointments
when you are addicted to heroin. Therefore you are welcome to come to
the clinic without an appointment but please ring before coming to
confirm consultation hours.


PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU COME TO THE CLINIC
Medicare rebates will be accepted as full payment in all cases, so Medicare cards must be brought to consultations. No one will be turned away because of lack of money. However once patients are over their crisis period, voluntary donations to the work of the clinic will be gratefully received, to enable us to provide more extensive services .

Patients must bring a minimum of $10 for their prescriptions, which are all P.B.S. subsidised except for Buprenorphine,which has recently dropped 90% in price and will soon also be Government subsidised.

Patients must bring as much I.D. as they can in order to make applications for Buprenorphine.

A. To help addicts, who no longer want to be addicts,

i. To discover what the underlying factors were that caused them to become addicts in the first place and what factors cause them to continue to be addicts.

ii.. To help them to get off their drugs of addiction as quickly, painlessly and economically as possible. (We use Buprenorphine S.P.E.E.Q.E. detox, not rapid detox).

iii. To help them to correct the underlying factors that caused them to become and to continue to be, addicts.

iv. To help them to stay off drugs, long term.

v. To work with them to pathways enable them to develop and enrich themselves and their lives.

B. To help raise the level of mental health, to reduce blocks to education and personal development, to assist families troubled by Chemical Health Problems, and reduce to drug related crime, imprisonment and pressure on the criminal justice system.

Medicare rebates will be accepted as full payment in all cases, so that Medicare cards must be brought to consultations. No one will be turned away because of lack of money. However once patients are over their crisis period, voluntary donations to the work of the clinic will be gratefully received, to enable us to provide better services.

Patients must bring a minimum of $10 for their prescriptions, which are all P.B.S. subsidised except for Buprenorphine,which has recently dropped 90% in price and will soon also be Government subsidised.

Patients must bring as much I.D. as they can in order to make application for Buprenorphine.