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Knox Community Health Service (KCHS) will use a $40,000 Federal Government grant to establish an innovative program for dealing with illicit drug use in the City of Knox. The funding, announced by La Trobe MP Jason Wood last week, will go towards KCHS’s new Register and Get Educated (RAGE) program, which will use SMS technology to provide positive messages to illicit drug users. KCHS CEO Anne Lyon said: “The concept is to develop a health promotion and education program to reduce the risk factors and impacts involved with illicit drug use. We’ve been trying to find relevant ways of engaging with the population, and we believe that because young people are such high users of SMS this could be a very good medium”.