Pubdate: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 Source: Queensland Sunday Mail (Australia) Website: http://www.thesundaymail.com.au/ Address: GPO Box 130 BRISBANE, QLD 4001 Contact: News Limited 2000 Fax: (07) 3666 6692 Author: Perry Jewell, Addict Association Inc,Toowoomba DETOX CENTRE'S WORK VITAL WE WANT to place on record our support for the Abaleen detox service at Clayfield. (Raiders seize patient's record, July 9). Without any help from the government, this group of dedicated people has worked night and day to provide a service not adequately addressed by the government. Parents, carers and organisations such as ours can only assume the worst about the government's agenda. Its recent boutique brothel laws will help facilitate the laundering of drug money as the majority of prostitutes are entrapped by the "invisible chain" of their drug addiction. Now, it seems, it is going to harass unfunded detox organisations, even when they are extremely successful. Can we now expect police raids on the many parents who opt to conduct home detoxes for their sons and daughters? Abaleen should be helped, not hindered, in its critical, life-saving work. - --- MAP posted-by: John Chase