Ms Colette Kelleher:

Exactly. It needs to include families and the impact on children. It also needs to reflect people's real lives. The HRB does a good job but it could do an even better job if we had greater access to real-time information about what is going on in people's lives. The research that FASN undertook was about the lived experience. There is not enough about the qualitative side in the data. There is not enough about the lived experience and how families are completely devastated by the impact of addiction. The stigma attached to that is absolutely massive for families. There is this thing around the secrecy of it all. If it was put on the same footing as other services, even other services within the mental health area-----