You’ve been challenged to kick a habit for a week
Wedge Gardens rehab centre challenges you to kick a habit for one week – from 23 to 29 June 2019. As part of the South African National Council on Alcoholism …
Drugs won’t get you to where you want to be, learners told
Learners at a Devon school heard on 20 February that drugs are a one-way road to failure. Zikhethele High School is in a rural area 40km from Springs, near Gauteng’s …
Tik – Methamphetamine, an all-consuming danger
The use of the drug tik alters normal functioning in a specific part of the limbic system that processes emotions such as anger and fear. As a result of this …
Synthetic drugs, the monster creeping in and killing our youth
The recent videos that have created a storm across social media highlight the dangers facing our children. Several children who smoked what was an unknown substance had to be rushed …
Wedge Gardens slams dagga ruling
Wedge Gardens substance abuse treatment centre outside of Johannesburg has reacted with dismay to the Constitutional Court’s ruling on September 18 that permits people to cultivate and use cannabis ‘in …
It is #InternationalOverdoseDay2018 @WedgeGardens
The power of positive thinking was the central theme of all treatment sessions at Wedge Gardens in the last week of August, in the build-up to International Overdose Awareness Day …
#InternationalOverdoseDay2018 @WedgeGardens
Wedge Gardens’ therapeutic team centred its activities around overdose awareness in the last week of August 2018, to mark #InternationalOverdoseDay2018 on Friday, 31 August. Activities included intervention work (like incorporating …
Wedge Gardens supports #InternationalOverdoseDay2018
This Friday (31 August) is International Overdose Day and Wedge Gardens treatment centre will dedicate its lecturers and workshops to raising awareness of how easily a drug overdose can happen. …
Wedge Garden’s kings and their queen beat boredom
Things are a lot more black and white at Wedge Gardens treatment centre these days. The long-anticipated giant outdoor chessboard has been completed and is being enjoyed by the gentlemen …
Sanca happily settled at Wedge Gardens
After relocating last year, the South African National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (Sanca) is settled in at Wedge Gardens treatment centre in Whitney Gardens, Lyndhurst, just outside of …