âTerrible heartacheâ: Soaring wait times for drug and alcohol treatment during pandemic
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Wait times to access drug and alcohol treatment services have soared in Victoria during the coronavirus pandemic, spurred by new groups with addiction issues and a surge in the number of people seeking help for alcohol withdrawal.
Practitioners in the sector say while wait times to access counselling services for addiction issues were about three to four weeks prior to the pandemic, it blew out to 10 weeks over Christmas in some metropolitan regions of Victoria.