CanTEST Health & Drug Checking
Test your drugs! Visit CanTEST in Canberra's CBD to have your drugs tested confidentially. Safe, friendly and managed by peers.
Cahma Services
CAHMA services help you improve your health and wellbeing
Drop-in Centre
Come relax, free tea and coffee, phone, internet and tv. Chat with our Peer Support Workers.
Peer Treatment Support
Get case management support to plan and achieve your health and wellbeing goals
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Peer Service
Have a yarn with our Indigenous workers & get support with your health
Cahma Programs
Cahma runs programs to promote improved health through education & information
Naloxone
Australia’s first naloxone program training community in overdose identification and reversal.
Harm Minimisation
Peer education, health promotion and harm reduction programs at CAHMA
Peer Treatment Support
Person centred peer based case management service
The Connection
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peer treatment support and groups
About Cahma
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Programs
Expert areas of work that CAHMA specialises in.
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Services
Services run by and for the community of people who use drugs and drug treatment services.
3.5k
Naloxone Kits
Life saving naloxone kits handed out since 2012.
35
Years of Service
An evolution from small peer organisation to the CAHMA of today.
Latest Articles
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Community notice – contaminated poppy seeds causing severe negative reactions
Several cases of severe toxicity after consuming poppy seed tea have recently presented to various hospitals in southeast Queensland, New…
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Joint media release – Hep C Point-of-Care Testing to launch in Canberra
Hepatitis ACT and Canberra Alliance for Harm Minimisation and Advocacy (CAHMA) are pleased to launchPoint-of-Care Testing (POCT) program for hepatitis…
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Media release – CAHMA celebrates ACT Drug Decriminalisation Bill 2022 passing into law
The Canberra Alliance for Harm Minimisation and Advocacy (CAHMA) has today welcomed the passing of the Drugs of Dependence Bill…
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