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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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MBBS BMedSci FRACGP FAChAMThe Victoria Clinic, Prahran
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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 informationTherapeutic programme resources
Structured work for individual and group therapy
Dr Hadinata developed Building a Valued Life for individual psychotherapy and authored an ACT-informed group series used within the multidisciplinary inpatient Dual Diagnosis Program.
Revised and Expanded Edition · 10/09/2026
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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