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Increase in Australian drug-related deaths
Source: ADCA Daily News
Drug-related deaths have increased by almost a third in the past five years, prompting the nation's top medical groups to call for a national summit on drug abuse. The latest unpublished data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shows that between 1990 and 1995 the total number of drug-related deaths, using legal and illegal drugs, leapt from 892 to 1182. The ABS classes drug-dependence deaths as those which occur in known drug users. AMA federal president Dr Keith Woollard said a summit would draw together a wide range of people with varied expertise and experience and should reach a national consensus on the way forward.
For more information, the Victorian Public Health Branch has published a guide to "Young People and Drugs", a useful document for teachers, parents and students.
http://hna.ffh.vic.gov.au/phb/hdev/alc&drug/young/title.html |
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