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Internet Counselling

Our experiences with people who get better and people who don’t get better have caused us to strongly believe in the value of Counselling. Counselling is a very important part of the Quadruple Therapy we recommend and provide at our Perth, Western Australia, Family NeuroHealth Centre. However because it can be costly and difficult to arrange, we are endeavouring to reduce the amount of counselling needed by giving you as much information as possible through this website, and by recommending NA meetings. Nevertheless most of our opiate clients would still benefit greatly from having a personal counsellor.

• If you are unable to find a suitable Counsellor near your home or work then Perth Family NeuroHealth Centre Counsellors available via the Internet include:

• Monica Tanner BA (Nursing), BA (Psych)
• Jade Dyer BSc, BA Hons (Psych), Assoc MAPS
• Sandy Tam BPsych
• Carmen Tseng BSc (Psych)

The fees for this service are $A20 for 15 minutes, $A35 for half an hour, $A50 for 45 minutes and $A65 per hour. You can have a look at the database of all available counsellors and have a look at their personal profile. Once you have pick the counsellor that you feel you are comfortable to work with, you then have to make payment with your credit card for the amount of time you want to spend with the particular counsellor. After you have made the payment, you can then pick any available appointment slots for the counsellor that is convenient for you.

The Local Counsellor Database

If you have had a lot of benefit from working with a particular counsellor and they are available for other people in your area or on the Internet, please ask them to email Sandy Tam on DrNeilBeck@BeatingHeroin.com so that she can discuss including them in our database.

Things We Won’t Do at BeatingHeroin.com
and Things We Will Do

1. We Won’t promote the use of any medicine in a form that can lead to dependence or addiction. We are opposed to treatments that result in short term gain followed by long term pain. We have and will continue to develop treatments that provide long term gain as well as the short term gain.
   

2. We Won’t promote the use of the commonly addictive benzodiazepines Flunitrazepam, Nitrazepam, Alprazolam, Clonazepam, Triazolam, Lorazepam, Clobazam and Bromazepam. We will only make available the less addictive Benzodiazepines Temazepam, Oxazepam and Diazepam. Even these we will usually only supply combined with other non-addictive calming and sleeping agents such as SNRI medications (Serotonin,/Noradrenalin/Dopamine Boosters) and/or Major Tranquillizers. These Medication combinations (“MultiMeds”) give patients the benefits of Benzodiazepines but stop them from taking large harmful and addictive amounts of Benzodiazepines.
   

3. We Will continue to work on developing more effective MultiMeds (combinations) containing already proven, safe, low cost medications for Detoxification and Relapse Prevention. They are

   • much easier for disturbed and/or drugged people to take correctly and to manage, making them safer and more effective than ordinary medications for these patients.
   • more affordable
   • come with delivery and payment systems that are carefully tailored to meet the needs of cash strapped multi Disordered and/or Addicted people
   • do not contain any S8, regulated, addictive or dangerous medicines such as Methadone, Buprenorphine, Suboxone, Dexamphatamine or Ritalin.
   • and will therefore not require bureaucratic supervision and control. They can therefore be supplied immediately, as soon as addiction patients come for help. This prevents much suffering for people who are often hurting so badly that the usual delays caused by bureaucratic approval processes prove too much for them, they can’t wait and they go back to street self medication.
     This immediate help and relief reduces relapse, stealing, fraud, burglary, violence, family breakdowns and imprisonment, and saves great cost to families and neighbourhoods and to the people who pay the taxes needed to finance the Police, the Courts and the Prisons.
     Eventually these savings should allow greater focussing of resources on prevention. Our families and communities will then become better and better places to be rather than more and more troubled, dangerous and unpleasant places to be.
4. We Will make optimum use of modern technology to improve the speed, effectiveness, availability and affordability of assessments, diagnosis and treatments for people with NeuroPsychoSocial and Addiction Problems.
   We have seen the wonderful advances that modern technology has produced in Cardiology, Gastroenterology, Biochemistry and Imaging etc. but we see that Mental Health still largely works the way it did in the 1930’s. Technological innovation and progress in diagnostic and treatment methods has been tragically slow for people suffering with NeuroPsychoSocial and addiction problems. This has given rise to long waiting lists and frequent shortages of desperately needed services, and to lack of progress in effectiveness, except with medications. If it wasn’t for new medications Mental Health would not be much further advanced today than it was in our grandparents’ time. Mental Health should not be as dependent on pharmaceuticals as it is today.
   In Mental Health old fashioned labor intensive methods necessitate the services of highly capable Psychiatrists and Psychologists who take 7 to 15 years to be trained and who are therefore scarce and costly. Highly trained, very expensive professionals are needed because the tools and systems they use are so primitive and unproductive. This has kept costs impossibly high, especially for the lower socioeconomic groups, where the vast majority of the people are who need Mental Health and Drug and Alcohol Services.
   There are many people graduating with 3 or 4 year degrees from our educational institutions and many people in our communities who are mature, wise and have a great deal of life experience who want to help with the Mental Health and Drug and Alcohol epidemic. We will give them ever increasingly effective tools and practical training that will empower them to help us get on top of the Mental Health and Drug and Alcohol problems that at present are on top of us, because of our archaic tools and methods.
   
   

5. We WILL particularly concentrate on making it possible for sick and injured people and their families to be able to discover for themselves what their NeuroPsychoSocial problems are, to understand the nature of those problems, and to understand what the best treatments for those problems are. We will use Websites and the Internet, very effective On-line Checklists, downloaded Reports and Information Handouts, and free or low cost mini E books. We will work to make an ever increasing percentage of the NeuroPsychoSocially Sick and Injured and/or Addicted much better informed and self sufficient, and able to help themselves and eventually to help their families and friends, who have similar problems.
   
   We believe that this will give better results for many troubled and troublesome people and will free up Doctors and Psychologists to spend more time on prevention and on helping people who truly cannot be taught to help themselves.
   

6. We WILL maintain a fighting fund of $100,000 or more ready at all times to fund Media, Public Relations, Political, Legal and Direct Action battles with Government Doctors, Pharmacists and Beauracrats who don’t want the Mental Health/Drug and Alcohol problems to be solved by better tools and methods and less delays, because that would result in the sidelining of their slow, ineffective, user hostile and unnecessarily bureaucratic and costly drug and alcohol clinics. They don’t want the Treasurer’s Razor Gang to take to them and that is what will happen if someone comes up with much better solutions.
   
   After he treated 736 new addiction patients (mostly heroin addiction) in calendar year 2002 Dr Margaret Stevens and supporters in the Western Australian Health Department stopped Dr Neil Beck from prescribing Buprenorphine for any new patients and then later, on false charges of illegal prescriptions, from prescribing Buprenorphine and Methadone for all his old patients as well. This forced him to close his Chemical Health Centre which had treated many thousands of addicts over the years. The Health Department feared that their little drug and alcohol empire would collapse if they didn’t stop him and didn’t care what happened to his patients.
   
   Taking the positive view that when one door closes it is almost always possible to find – or to create – a bigger better door, Dr Beck has now developed much better methods and treatments that don’t require any authorisation by bureaucrats because they don’t involve any dangerous drugs. We intend to make deep inroads into the drug and alcohol problems in Western Australia using methods that not even the control freaks in the Health Department can obstruct. But we expect them to try to obstruct us again and will be ready for them this time – watch the Beating Heroin Chat Room.