Independent senator Jacqui Lambie has lamented not being able to help her son manage his problem with the drug ice despite being a federal politician.
Opposing legislation that would strip welfare from the criminally insane, Senator Lambie said she could not force her 21-year-old son into detox and had no control over his addiction.
I’m not talking to my son anymore, I’m talking to a drug, Senator Lambie told parliament on Monday, adding that ice addicts would increasingly be locked up for crimes committed under the influence.
I am a senator of Australia and I have a 21-year-old son that has a problem with ice, and yet even with my title I have no control over my son, she said.
And I can tell you, I’m not the only parent out there. There is thousands of us.
Senator Lambie said the Government needed to think differently in its approach to people with addictions and called for legislation that gave parents the power to force drug addicted children into rehabilitation programs.
They will end up on a slab, they will end up in these mental institutions, they will end up killing somebody else because of their actions because they don’t have control of the drug, she said.
