In a call on all political parties to consider national legislation for mandatory detox, Independent Senator for Tasmania Jacqui Lambie shared her struggle as a mother of a son addicted to ice.
“Australian parents deserve the right to speak to their children, not the drug, when they are trying to put them back on the straight and narrow.
“Australian parents deserve the right, if their children are addicted to lethal and harmful drugs like ice, to mandatory detox them,’’ Senator Lambie said.
“I am a senator of Australia and my younger son has a problem with ice, and yet, even with my title, I have no control over my son.
“As the law stands I cannot involuntarily detox my own son. And I can tell you I am not the only parent out there in that situation, there are thousands of us,’’ Senator Lambie said.
“These kids will have three or four choices in their lives, they will either end up on a slab, end up in a mental institution or end up killing someone.
“This is where society is heading, and we are sitting here and we are not doing anything about it,’’ Senator Lambie said.
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• Ben Lohberger in Comments: So Jacqui Lambie kicks her ice-addicted son out of home, then shames him in parliament and the national media, and we’re supposed to feel sorry … for her? Lambie has the salary to pay for a good quality residential rehab program for her son. But mandatory rehab just doesn’t work, so she’ll have to wait until he wants her help before she can give it. In the meantime, publicly humiliating him is not helpful in any way, apart from raising her political profile for the next week or two. Her son, by comparison, will have to live with the public stigma for life.
Ricardo Gonzales in Comments: Ben Lohberger you have nailed this. This is Lambie’s shameless attempt to get re-elected with a cheap headline at the expense of her son’s future. Did she ask him permission before she “outed” him? I doubt it. What chance does this poor kid get to rehabilitate himself now that his shameless mother has stigmatised him to all potential employers in the small community of the North-West Coast, where unemployment is rife and his name and photo are today in The Advocate newspaper. I felt sick reading the various newspaper blogs where gullible members of the public are congratulating her on her bravery! She should be utterly condemned. Her son is clearly not in a position to defend himself for the sake of his future and the last person he would expect to betray him would be his mother.
• abs in Comments: … I do however think that it might be helpful to see that (perhaps) this action by Lambie is about a desperate mother struggling to deal with her son’s suffering. i am not a fan of Lambie’s nor many other politicians out of their depth in their position.
