The fact that this insidious drug is now being looked at for what it is, a life destroyer, is a relief considering how drug users have been previously looked at as scourges, oxygen thieves and scum bags.

What we would like to see from this taskforce is a rural and regional taskforce set up to look at and deal with country users and dealers.

Our issues including tyranny of distance and no accessibility to services is an issue that the majority of cities don’t encounter, therefore we have differing aspects to our users and dealers. 

Also, and most importantly, drug users need to be part of these taskforces. 

If you don’t know what they need or what drug dealers are all about, it really isn’t looking at the whole problem.

A common sense approach is needed in all areas of concern in dealing with this problem.

Public awareness has now been achieved, so everyone needs to do what they can to help alleviate the problem, whether it be going to a support group meeting, or working with police to dob in a drug dealer, the life and soul destroyers of our country towns and cities.

Australia is the greatest place in the world to live and this little hiccup can and will be dealt with, we have no doubt, with all the players working together as one.

Kerry Cassells