More than half of young Indigenous offenders currently before the Youth Koori Court in Surry Hills have reported using ice and other amphetamine-style stimulants but drug rehabilitation services are "severely limited" and often located outside of Sydney, the magistrate presiding over the court says.
Indigenous elder Joanne Selfe, Children's Court President Peter Johnstone, Magistrate Sue Duncombe and Indigenous elder Pat Field at the ceremonial sitting of the Youth Koori Court in Surry Hills in February.
The lack of treatment services close to an Indigenous person's family could prove an insurmountable stumbling block because their family might have no "capacity, financial or otherwise, to travel to see them", she said. Based on her own review of case files, Ms Duncombe said more than half or eight of the 13 young Indigenous people currently appearing before the court in Surry Hills had reported using ice or MDMA, also known as ecstasy.
MWhitbourn Indigenous people needing rehab go through the same programs as everyone else, headline is misleading.
MWhitbourn Drug is destroying Australian young generation ! So sad!
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