Rehabilitation
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Service shortfall means cancer survivors missing out on essential rehabilitation (photos)
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There are fears cancer survivors are missing out on much-needed rehabilitation because demand for services is outstripping supply.
Topics: cancer, rehabilitation, perth-6000
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Skydive accident survivor rediscovers passion for life in open water swimming
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A far north Queensland man whose passion for adventure landed him in a wheelchair is training for one of the toughest open water swims in Queensland.
Topics: swimming, extreme-sports, accidents---other, rehabilitation, disabilities, cairns-4870, townsville-4810, magnetic-island-4819, goondiwindi-4390
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Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, education, drug-education, health, drug-use, rehabilitation, terranora-2486, lismore-2480
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Topics: community-and-society, drugs-and-substance-abuse, education, drug-education, health, drug-use, law-crime-and-justice, crime, drug-offences, rehabilitation, terranora-2486
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Victory House Audio
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Drug addicts speak about their rehabilitation success at Victory House.
Topics: community-and-society, drugs-and-substance-abuse, education, drug-education, health, drug-use, law-crime-and-justice, crime, drug-offences, rehabilitation, terranora-2486, lismore-2480, sydney-2000
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Topics: community-and-society, drugs-and-substance-abuse, education, drug-education, health, drug-use, law-crime-and-justice, crime, drug-offences, rehabilitation, terranora-2486
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Victories over addiction run from a coastal mansion
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Victory House, home to 14 drug addicts, is a hilltop mansion with sweeping ocean views that has seen success treating drug addicts in an intensive rehabilitation program.
Topics: rehabilitation, drugs-and-substance-abuse, community-and-society, education, drug-education, health, drug-use, law-crime-and-justice, crime, drug-offences, terranora-2486, tweed-heads-2485, lismore-2480, sydney-2000
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Prisoner's sister pleads for punishment rethink as jail figures soar
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As the prison population grows, the sister of a serious violent offender pleads for a community rethink on punishment, saying going to jail as a teenager ruined her brother's life.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, community-and-society, rehabilitation, australia
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Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, rehabilitation, indigenous-culture, family, darwin-0800
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Serving Thyme: Success of Don Dale cooking classes sparks call for more rehab programs
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Every Sunday morning at Don Dale, one of Australia's most controversial prisons, a former chef holds cooking classes in a bid to teach troubled youth basic life skills and connect with them over bubbling vats of spaghetti Bolognese.
Topics: youth, prisons-and-punishment, human, rehabilitation, social-policy, darwin-0800
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Back pain to window panes: How lead light helped heal a construction worker
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After badly injuring his back on a construction site Glenn Howlett searched for a new line of work and found it through the stained glass of lead light.
Topics: visual-art, rehabilitation, people, human-interest, willunga-5172, adelaide-5000
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Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, rehabilitation, community-organisations, mental-health, counselling, regional, kalgoorlie-6430
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Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, rehabilitation, community-organisations, mental-health, counselling, regional, kalgoorlie-6430
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Discovering life after drugs thanks to outback rehab
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A former drug dealer from Perth says regional life has given him the space to make decisions that have changed his life.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, counselling, drug-offences, drug-use, drug-education, rehabilitation, kalgoorlie-6430
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One Plus One: Baroness Jean Corston Video
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Baroness Jean Corston is a British peer best known for a ground-breaking report on women in the UK prison system. Despite the public’s derision and distrust of politics, she insists it remains a noble cause.
Topics: government-and-politics, parliament, political-parties, public-sector, social-policy, world-politics, mental-health, rehabilitation, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, crime, prisons-and-punishment, 20th-century, world-war-2, australia, kenya, united-kingdom
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Ice looms large in Tasmanian prison writing project (photos)
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It is ironic that many inmates taking part in a Risdon Prison writing project, when given the theme "a good mate", choose to write about the drug ice and the devastation it has caused them.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, rehabilitation, risdon-vale-7016
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Volunteers from the Beaconsfield Men's Shed have worked to build the vegetable gardens on wheels. image
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Topics: gardening, rehabilitation, healthcare-facilities, mackay-4740
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While Mackay Rehabilitation Hospital's therapy garden is hoping to help patients with their recovery, it's also putting them to work with the planting. image
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Topics: gardening, rehabilitation, healthcare-facilities, mackay-4740
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Amanda Brown and Deidre Clancy, the masterminds behind the therapy garden. image
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Topics: gardening, rehabilitation, healthcare-facilities, mackay-4740
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Topics: gardening, rehabilitation, mackay-4740
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Community-funded garden provides therapy to north Queensland patients
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A north Queensland hardware store and men's shed create a therapy garden for locals who are undergoing rehabilitation.
Topics: gardening, rehabilitation, healthcare-facilities, mackay-4740
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Topics: health, rehabilitation, disabilities, mildura-3500
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Woodwork class helps rehabilitate people with brain injuries
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A water skiing accident robbed Christian Larsen of life as he knew it, but nearly 10 years on, a woodwork class is helping with rehabilitation.
Topics: health, rehabilitation, disabilities, mildura-3500
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Career criminal helps others to break prison cycle Feature
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Stephen Cain used to describe himself as a career criminal — now he's turned his life around and wants to help others to avoid the same path.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, drugs-and-substance-abuse, suicide, rehabilitation, people, human-interest, adelaide-5000
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Drug rehabilitation program funded by blueberries
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A drug and alcohol rehabilitation program in northern New South Wales enters the blueberry industry to raise money and train its clients.
Topics: fruit, drug-offences, drug-education, drug-use, drugs-and-substance-abuse, rehabilitation, lower-bucca-2450
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