SENATOR Jacqui Lambie has opened up about her son’s ice addiction in Parliament while arguing for involuntary detox for children.

“I’m a senator of Australia and I have a 21-year-old son that has a problem with ice”, she said on Monday.

But things took a sinister turn when he began experimenting with ice, and his erratic behavior forced her to ask him to move out of the family home two months ago.

‘I can’t help my son, because we can’t involuntary detox them, ‘ she told ABC TV on Monday.

“When you’re getting to the point where you’ve got to lock your bag and that up, then I shouldn’t have to live under those conditions”, she said.

“I’m very sympathetic with her plight, [but] I don’t think it’s a great idea at all to reveal somebody else’s health problem to the nation”, Dr. Wodak told Nine’s Mornings.

Lambie was opposing an amendment that would deny welfare to patients in psychiatric institutions who are charged with a serious offence like rape or murder – even if they have not yet been convicted, have been deemed too unwell to stand trial, or have been deemed not guilty due to mental impairment.

Lambie said she’s not the only parent out there experiencing this, “There are thousands of us”.

According to the senator the people who would be affected by the legislation were in a special category because they were not in control of their actions.

Asked if she can “recognize her son” when he’s on drugs, Lambie said that she may as well be talking to a pharmaceutical drug.

She wants national legislation to allow parents to commit drug-addicted children into rehabilitation. “In my 38 years in law enforcement, I have never seen a substance as destructive as crystal methylamphetamine”, he said.

She wanted specific legislation for compulsory treatment for minors.

Although she warned Australia did not have enough rehabilitation centers to fight the ice epidemic.

He’s commended Senator Lambie for speaking out. These kids that are taking this drug, ice, they don’t have any control.

A day earlier she rose in the Senate to speak of the sense of helplessness she has about her own son’s addiction.

“Their needs would be met by the state or territory”, he said.

“Nobody else is calling the shots but me, so it’s going to fall on my shoulders whichever way it lands”.

“The thing’s just taken over his life”.

His son’s addiction came to light over the weekend after the minister’s auto was pulled over by police and they found meth in it. Brandon Chandler had given his father’s vehicle to a friend to use while he looked after her children.

The government had a “strong will” when it came to tackling the scourge of ice, but would not be drawn on its policies before the release of the full report of a task-force into the problem, headed by a former Victorian police commissioner, Ken Lay. They need help’.

The Australia Drug Foundation estimates that when it comes to meth/amphetamine, including ice, 7% of Australians aged 14 years and over have used it at least once and 2.1% have used it in the previous 12 months.