The methamphetamine initiative: The expansion of alcohol and other drug withdrawal and residential rehabilitation services for methamphetamine users.

The Mental Health Commission is seeking to expand the number of low medical withdrawal and residential rehabilitation beds in Western Australia for people seeking withdrawal and residential treatment for alcohol and other drug use with a specific focus on methamphetamine use. A combined total of 60 adult beds are required as follows:
• Residential rehabilitation beds: 24 metropolitan and 28 regional
• Low medical withdrawal (detox): 4 metropolitan and 4 regional
Offers are sought from suitable provider/s to provide up to 60 beds or parts thereof consistent with the prescribed composition as outlined above and in accordance with evidence based need identified in the Better Choices, Better Lives: Western Australian Mental Health, Alcohol and Other Drug Services Plan 2015-2025 (the Plan). Further details on the priority areas for the location of these services is outlined in the Request.

Respondents are encouraged to consider opportunities for co-designed, innovative and cost effective models of service delivery including co-location of services and other opportunities to remove known barriers to engagement and retention in treatment.