In an emergency call 000. For alcohol and other drug support, the National Alcohol and Other Drug Hotline is 1800 250 015 — free, confidential, 24 hours.
From noffs.org.au, October 2026. Not supplied by the service.PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL CARE
THE SERVICE
PALM, the Program for Adolescent Life Management, is a Ted Noffs Foundation residential drug and alcohol program in Watson for young people aged 13 to 18. It runs up to three months and combines counselling at least twice weekly, group work, living skills, house routine, exercise and recreation, with distance education available from the first day. Families are engaged through individual and family counselling. After discharge the CALM program provides up to three years of continuing care.
Ask the admissions team how withdrawal would be handled and how a transfer into treatment works.
From noffs.org.au, October 2026. Not supplied by the service.
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The Adolescent Drug Withdrawal Unit is a short residential withdrawal service for young people aged 13 to 18 run by the Ted Noffs Foundation at its Watson site in Canberra, alongside the three-month PALM rehabilitation program. Stays run up to fourteen days and the withdrawal support is expressly non-medicated.
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