Alcohol and Drugs is a major problem in Australia, the effects not just on the user, but the community. Influencing criminal acts such as domestic violence, burglary, armed robberies and many more. Australians as young as 14 drink alcohol. The average age that Australian tried drugs used to be 17-18, but now is early teenagers such as 12-13 year olds. In 2010, 1 in 5 people who were at the age of 14 or over, drank alcohol at a level that would put them at risk of alcohol-related disease. As of 2010 the percentage of people being abused by someone under the influence of alcohol increased from 4.5% to 8.1%. Alcohol is the main cause of domestic violence. Men who use alcohol abuse as an excuse for violence they cause, is an attempt to free …show more content…
In Australia 73% of partner physical assault is caused by Alcohol and Women are more likely to report incidents of violence due to their male partner being drunk. Studies on Western Australia have shown; On average, 10 citizens of Western Australia die per week due to alcohol related problems. Around 3.1 Billion dollars is spent on alcohol or alcohol related services such as; road crashes, ambulances, police services and hospital fees. Western Australia has a massive problem with methamphetamine (Ice) and police have experienced 40.8% increase in amphetamine related arrests between 2013-14 and 2014-15. In 2014-15, 44% of Australians ages 18 years or older exceeded the limit of 4 standard drinks at least once in the year. In 2011 over 600 people died of accidental drug overdose. In 2016 drugs overtook alcohol as influences on family violence. Studies have shown that methamphetamine user are 1.6 times more likely to commit robbery, 1.8 times more likely to commit burglary, 2.1 times more likely to arm themselves with weapons and 1.5 times more likely to commit property offence than those not under the influence of
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Alcohol is the most abused drug in the United States. There are more than 5,000 deaths of people below the age of 21 every year due to underage drinking. Many teens drink due to stress or difficult home life. Underage drinking can affect all aspects of life, including physical, psychological, and even your social life.
The Substance Abuse Leading Health Indicators are teenagers using alcohol or any illegal drugs and adults engaging in binge drinking during the past 30 days. Health Impact of Substance Abuse Substance abuse contributes to a number of negative health outcomes and public health problems, including cardiovascular conditions, pregnancy complications, teenage pregnancy, HIV/AIDS and other Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), domestic violence, child abuse, motor vehicle crashes, homicides, and suicides. The website healthypeople.gov provides examples of how the abuse of substances can damage health and lives. The use of drugs have been associated to abnormal cardiovascular functioning, like abnormal heart rate and heart attacks. STDs can also be caused by injection drug use.
The legal age to consume alcohol in our nation, The United States of America, is 21 years of age; although, it was previously allowed at the age of 18, when one is accepted in adulthood. The National Minimum Drinking Age of punished every state that allowed persons under 21 years of age to purchase and publicly possess alcoholic beverages
The drugs issue is a major problem in Australia. A simple solution cannot be found to solve this great problem because there are so many decisions, thoughts and sacrifices that need to be made. All sides of the issue must be considered when making such a large decision. To find a solution, several tests, meetings, interviews and research need to be made, to name a few. Extreme care is needed when challenging such major issues, all aspects of the problem need to be considered.
There are an estimated 3.3 million teen-age alcoholics in the United States. Adolescents who begin drinking before age 15 are four times more likely to develop alcoholism than those who begin drinking at age 21. Youth who drink alcohol are five times more likely to smoke cigarettes, four times more likely to smoke marijuana and three times more likely to use an illicit drug. Teens that use alcohol tend to become sexually active at earlier ages. Teens who use alcohol are more likely to be victims of violent crimes such as aggravated assault, robbery or rape.
Drinking at a young age leads to alcoholism if one is not careful. Alcoholism is a disease that is hard for someone to overcome. Studies have been done that have shown people who have alcohol related relatives are four times more likely to become alcoholics themselves. Alcoholism can be broken down into two categories, acute and long term. Acute alcohol use is when someone drinks occasionally. Long term use of alcohol is when someone has to have a drink every day, or when you can’t go a day without drinking, which is considered alcohol dependence another word for alcoholism. Alcoholism causes a variety of social problems that include loss of work productivity and violence. Studies have shown that fewer adolescents are drinking but when they do drink they tend to binge drink. Binge drinking leads to alcoholism. Another study has shown that when people are told not to do something they are more than likely going to do the opposite. There should not be more laws against drinking, but instead more programs to teach to teach teens how to drink responsibly. Dr. Dale Archer says, “This would focus, not only on drunk driving, but also binge drinking, brain damage, the deleterious health effects of alcohol abuse and how to drink in a responsible manner.”(2/3) There are two ways to treat alcoholism, detox or rehab. Most treatment for young adults who have a drinking problem is mainly an intervention, instead of the more
They may develop emotional issues, behavior issues, and even mental illnesses. Domestic violence is a pattern of abusive behavior in a relationship that is used by one partner to achieve and maintain power and also to gain control over another partner. It can be emotional, physical or even sexual. Domestic violence can happen anywhere and to anyone, but certain factors increase the risk, including the mother’s age, poverty, unemployment, and alcohol and drug abuse. A study done in Canada found that women who lived with heavy drinkers were five times more likely to be assaulted by their partners than those who lived with non-drinkers.
Teenage drinking has become a big problem around the world the studies have shown between seventy to eighty percent of every teen has had an alcoholic beverage. (ClayPool 2) That is about half of the students in a public school. 1.9 million teens from the day they turned twelve to the age of twenty are considered heavy drinkers. (Well-connected 21) But only twelve out of fifteen actually have a problem drinking alcoholic beverages. (Goodwin 63) Many teens die in traffic accidents each day from the age sixteen to nineteen. There has been around 2,700 teens in the United States killed and almost 321,000 were treated for injuries suffered by motor-vehicle crashes, but then were released to go home. The cost to repair the damages of an alcohol-related accident is estimated to be around one-thousand, five- hundred all the way up to one-hundred, forty-eight billion dollars. ("Teenage" 64) But alcohol-related crashes also cost American taxpayers one-hundred billion dollars not just the driver. ("Drinking") Days of the week with the highest deat...
“For every family that is impacted by drugs, there are another 10 to 15 families impacted by alcohol abuse. It's a pretty big deal. We have a tendency to only look at part of the puzzle.” (Kevin Lewis). As a society we tend to categorize the severity of addiction in a way that drugs are the most dangerous and alcohol being just a problem. Because alcohol addiction can be a slow progressive disease many people don’t see it in the same light as drug addiction. An addiction to drugs is seen as being a more deadly and dangerous issue then that of alcohol because a drug addiction can happen more quickly and can kill more quickly. Alcohol is something that is easy to obtain, something that is found at almost every restaurant. People with an alcohol addiction can not hide from alcohol as easy as a drug addict. Approximately 7 million Americans suffer from alcohol abuse and another 7 million suffer from alcoholism. (Haisong 6) The dangers of alcohol affect everyone from children with alcoholic parents, to teenagers who abuse alcohol, then to citizens who are terrorized by drunk drivers.
Domestic violence is a worldwide issue in past and present society. Domestic violence, or battering, is a pattern of psychological, economic, and sexual coercion of one partner in a relationship by the other that is punctuated by physical assaults or credible threats of bodily harm. People in all social, ethnic, economic, or religious groups are affected by domestic violence; whether the couple is married, divorced, living together, or dating. The victims of domestic violence can also be young, old, straight, or gay. Domestic violence usually involves women as the victims and men as the perpetrators, but that does not suggest that others cannot be battered or perpetuate abuse, such as women on men, or same sex abuse. Domestic violence has become a common occasion in society today, and more and more couples are experiencing it. All relationships experience disagreements, but battering involves every aspect of a relationship. Domestic violence has ultimately been demonstrated to be socialized in society and questions why women are more likely to be victimized over men.
Alcohol is a part of most of our lives here in New Zealand. We drink to relax, to celebrate, to commiserate and to be socially active. However, the level of alcohol consumed in society is intoxicating our Kiwi culture. There has been some recent publicity about the impact of local teenagers and their binge drinking. Over the festive season, large sums of these young people have committed offences whilst under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs.
Substance abuse is an issue that plays a major social problem in society, the effect of drugs on families and communities is destructive. This paper will discuss evidence showing how substance abuse is a specific social problem that is widespread, and is affecting every level of our judicial system. Many people turn to drugs for many different reasons, they will try just about anything to relieve the pain. In our society today many people go through devastating experiences in their life. Furthermore people turn to drugs to mask the horrible memories and find relief. Drugs can temporarily relieve the symptoms of angry, loneliness or boredom, but it may be a temporary fix to an individual problems. They may