Is There Anywhere in South Australia Where You Can Forcibly Take a Drug Addict for Treatment/help?
Question by misssy: Is there anywhere in South Australia where you can forcibly take a drug addict for treatment/help?
I am wondering if anyone knows a place where a drug addict (ICE) can be forcibly taken away for treatment, psychiatric help, evaluation….so far all I know is he can be arrested and assesed but then let out in an hour/day….I am talking about a drug addict, now off the stuff for a few days, mood swings, manic depressive, violent, lying, basiclly coming down from ICE and in need of help, in the form of being physically taken away and assesed.
Best answer:
Answer by tpvs33
Basically there are two ways to force treatment.
If the addict is a child, then the parent/guardian can apply to the court to have the child involuntarily placed into treatment under the Protection of Children Abusing Drugs Act.
If the addict is an adult, you would have to call the police when they are using the drugs and the police will arrest them and then refer them to a drug treatment centre.
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