Jacqui Lambie’s emotional plea to fellow politicians

Jacqui Lambie has criticised fellow politicians for failing to back tough rehabilitation programs for drug addicts.

The Tasmanian senator, whose son was a methamphetamine addict, told ABC documentary series Ice Wars that there were “things out there that are working.”

“There are idiots in Canberra that want to reinvent the wheel [but] build more boot camps because they’re working. That’s what I’d like to see,” Lambie said.

Today she retweeted a Daily Mail story about her comments on Ice Wars, underlining the seriousness with which she takes the issue. 

Jacqui Lambie's son took meth after being punched in the head #auspol #politas https://t.co/5vRX4ds0lf via @MailOnline

— Jacqui Lambie (@JacquiLambie) February 28, 2017

She had previously spoken to the ABC in 2015 of her despair during the depths of her son Dylan Milverton’s addition.

“I pray that the curt will see enough sense, will see that he’s done enough harm, and will say, right, you’re going to go to rehab for the next six months or you’re going to jail, because right now, that’s the only way I’ll get my son back,” Lambie cried. 

Milverton, who told Ice Wars that he started using meth heavily in 2012 after being punched in the head, an attack that fractured his skull and caused him to suffer a brain aneurysm.

“I started getting back into the gear and things really went downhill,” he recalled.

In 2015 Milverton was convicted of using counterfeit money, driving and drug offences and was sentenced to two months in prison, which was suspended on the condition he attended a rehab program.

He completed 12 months in a Queensland rehab facility and in January revealed that he and his mother were close again.

“Before I didn’t have any dreams, because I was so focused on drugs. Now I have finished the program, the world is my oyster again,” Milverton told The Project.