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Referral informationAddiction Medicine Specialist, MelbourneSpecialist assessment.
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Private Addiction Medicine care for substance use, behavioural addictions and related conditions. Careful assessment and specialist advice support informed decisions about your health and longer-term interests. Dr Hadinata also considers driving and work assessments case by case, and provides independent medicolegal opinion.
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Medicolegal servicesPatients and Families
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Patient informationDriving and occupational assessments
Driving, occupational and other formal assessments are a significant part of Dr Hadinata's practice. Each request is considered case by case.
A fee pays for careful expert work, never a favourable or predetermined conclusion.
Assessment informationBooks and therapeutic resources
Understanding recovery and putting ideas into practice
Explore Dr Hadinata's Reader’s Guide to psychology and recovery, followed by practical resources for individual psychotherapy and group treatment. Each publication has a distinct purpose, with public contents to help readers find their starting point.
First edition · 12/09/2026
Building a Valued Life:Towards what matters even in the darkest times
A Reader’s Guide to Psychology and Recovery
A sustained explanation of psychology and recovery, centred on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), for standalone reading or as a companion to the workbooks.
Revised and Expanded Edition · 12/09/2026
Building a Valued Life:Towards What Matters, even in the Darkest Times
A clinician-guided psychotherapy workbook with 12 core sessions and expanded optional pathways, comprising 69 sessions for use during treatment with Dr Hadinata.
ACT-informed group therapy · Version 3.3
Dual Diagnosis Group Program
ACT-informed group therapy resources used within a multidisciplinary inpatient programme, with full-day treatment Monday to Friday and therapeutic care every day.
First edition, 2026 · concise participant edition preferred
Recovery for Real Life
An integrated group program for mental health and substance use recovery.
Modular psychotherapy library · Version 2.0, 2026
Building a Valued Life:Towards What Matters, even in the Darkest Times
A clinician-guided library of core work, selected treatment pathways, shared modules and access adaptations. Choose material around a current purpose with your clinician.
Clinical practice and professional work
Experience, research and practical information
Dr Hadinata practises at The Victoria Clinic in Prahran and contributes to research, education and clinical supervision.
About Dr HadinataLatest insight
Research and recognition
Medicinal cannabis prescribing: new Australian case series
Dr Eric Hadinata coauthored an Australian case series on potential harms from medicinal cannabis prescribing in people with mental health and addiction risks.
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