Australia: Reducing Alcohol And Other Drug Related Harm

Australia: Reducing Alcohol And Other Drug Related Harm   Resource sheet no. 3 produced for the Closing the Gap Clearinghouse Dennis Gray and Edward Wilkes, December 2010   Summary What we know Rates of risky consumption of alcohol and other drugs (AOD) and related harms among Indigenous Australians are generally twice those in the non- Indigenous population. High levels of AOD-related harm among Indigenous Australians are both a consequence of, and contribute to, the health and social gap...

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