Community leaders in Western Australia's Kimberley region are urging state authorities to increase drug rehabilitation and detox services as locals fear a rise in methamphetamine and other drug use among young people in the area.

The Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Service warns that increasing numbers of young people are using methamphetamines and other drugs.

KAMS chief executive Vicki O'Donnell renewed the organisation's call for the WA government to invest in detox facilities if any further restrictions on liquor are enacted.

"Whether people want to believe it or not, it is increasing," she told the ABC.

"There is no way forward to be able to stem the flow if you don't have services available to be able to get those kids off drugs."

Ms O'Donnell said the region needs a regional strategy on the minimisation of alcohol and drug related harm.

"We're saying that whilst you are concentrating on alcohol, you also have a drug problem, which needs to be addressed now, where do you go for your support for a drug problem?" she said.

"There's no infrastructure in the Kimberley."

She hoped more investment would make it possible to build a small detox centre alongside the existing Milliya Rumurra Rehabilitation Centre, outside of Broome.

"Having one detox centre, certainly for the Kimberley is better than having none. They can't take any more on, so they have a limited scope. They're underfunded. What we're asking for is to invest in those areas," she told the ABC.

Derby-West Kimberley Shire president Peter McCumstie told the ABC he was angered by the lack of support services as rates of alcohol and drug related harm rise.

He expressed concern that the situation would worsen if tighter alcohol restrictions were put in place without support services being boosted.

"If we are to get on top of this, if we are to help the people that are addicted to alcohol and drugs, we need to provide them some form of rehabilitation," he said.

"It is not an insurmountable problem, that's the other frustration. With the right resources in the right places, with the right infrastructure and with the right intent, we can turn this around."

Mr McCumstie told the ABC the increased rate of young people using methamphetamine across the region was "really scary".

"Sadly, you link all this in with drug and alcohol abuse, youth suicide, youth crime and domestic violence. All of this is interlinked. I defy anybody, anybody, anywhere to tell me it's not."

The public broadcaster reported that WA Health Department figures indicate 115,449 "fitpacks", providing access to sterile needles and syringes, were distributed across the Kimberley between July 2022 and June 2023 as part of a state-wide health program to reduce the transmission of blood-borne viruses such as HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C.