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Cassandra Morgan

Stigma a hurdle to treatment for addiction

Baden Hicks says he would've been treated sooner if not for the stigma around trauma and addiction. (AAP)

Taking the stigma out of addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder would have saved Baden Hicks two decades of pain and misery.

The 36-year-old Melburnian, now a peer support worker at the Turning Point research and treatment centre, grappled with a drug addiction for 20 years.

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