Drug Addiction Among Australian Youths and Prevention
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Drug addiction has a devastating and chronic impact on human body and mind. According to the National Drug Strategy Household Survey, 2016, among the Australian people around 3.1 million Australians are taking illegal drugs. In fact, more than 23,000 secondary students in the age between 12 and 17 have practise of taking drugs. Learn more about drug prevention methods, traditional treatment, and social innovation approach to prevent drug addiction among Australian youths. Read more on Desklib.
Drug Addiction Among Australian Youths and Prevention
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DRUG ADDICTION AMONG AUSTRALIAN YOUTHS AND PREVENTION
Key FactsDrug addiction has a devastating and chronic impact on human body and mind.According to the National Drug Strategy Household Survey, 2016, among the Australian people around 3.1 million Australians are taking illegal drugs.In fact, more than 23,000 secondary students in the age between 12 and 17 have practise of taking drugs.36% of the Australian youths and college goers are suffering with Alcohol problems.Moreover, 10% of them use other kinds of drugs like Cannabis (Van Wormer & Davis, 2016).Using hallucinogens like LSD are very rare and approximately 97% of the Australians never having used it.Among them, 2% of the students use performance enhancing drugs such as steroids.
Drug prevention methodsThere are some universal programs that address risk and protective factors common to all children in a given setting such as schools or community.In addition to this, the selective programs are set up with the purpose to target limited groups of children and youths who are suffering with drug addiction (Bogenschutz & Johnson, 2016).Furthermore, there is another drug preventive program which is restricted to individual drug abusers. It is known as the indicated program which are primarily put emphasis on the children and youths addicted to drugs and alcohol.
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