By D&M Consultants D&M Consultants understand that clients enter our program at different stages of ‘readiness’ to change. We recognise that most of our them will be mandated to attend. This is challenging as people may protest that as this is a forced intervention, how can a person be compelled to change? There is research evidence …
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By D&M Consultants Many people are cautious about using the term ‘addict’ to describe someone who has issues with substance misuse. This is largely due to the stigma associated with the concepts of ‘addict’ and ‘addiction’. Public health folks, academics and practitioners have attempted to downplay the stigma of these words by using more neutral …
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By D&M Consultants Although many Australians are more educated about addiction thanks to social media and television programs, there continues to be widespread myths and misconceptions about addicts and addiction. At D&M, we challenge some of these myths and misconceptions in order to uncover the reality of the suffering you or someone you know may …
By D&M Consultants The desire to mood and mind alter is part of human behaviour. Do you remember when you were a kid spinning around until you were so dizzy you fell over? Substances have been in human societies for millennia and fulfill numerous social and cultural functions, many have been forgotten in our modern …
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By D&M Consultants Who is a high functioning addict? High functioning addicts are people struggling with an addiction (a behaviour or a substance) and who haven’t lost everything. In other words, they have not hit a ‘rock bottom’. Most of the time they still have their career, home, social life and family. On the outside, …
