Drug use and nonuse statistics

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Drug use and non-use statistics

• The following slides give information on the
• use and non-use across substances
• tobacco
• alcohol
• cannabis
• ecstasy
• methamphetamine.
• Please select slides as appropriate to context,
  being mindful of recognising source/s where
  possible.
• Contact Jan Burgess ph 82261287
  burgess.jan3_at_saugov.sa.gov.au

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Total Drug Deaths 23,500
Source Statistics on Drug Use in Australia
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Total Drug Deaths 1500
Source Statistics on Drug Use in Australia
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Lifetime Drug Use 14 years and over2007
National Drug Household Survey

This graph reports the proportion of the
population aged 14 years or older in Australia
who reported using the drug (including alcohol
and tobacco) at least once in their lifetime
Slide courtesy Paul Dillon Drug and Alcohol
Research and Training Australia (DARTA)
www.darta.net.au
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Lifetime non-use 14 years and over2007
National Drug Household Survey

This graph reports the proportion of the
population aged 14 years or older in Australia
who reported never using the drug (including
alcohol and tobacco)
Slide courtesy Paul Dillon Drug and Alcohol
Research and Training Australia (DARTA)
www.darta.net.au
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Recent Drug Use 14 years and over2007 National
Drug Household Survey

This graph reports the proportion of the
population aged 14 years or older in Australia
who reported recently using the drug (including
alcohol and tobacco). Recent use is defined as
using in the last 12 months
Slide courtesy Paul Dillon Drug and Alcohol
Research and Training Australia (DARTA)
www.darta.net.au
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Recent non-use 14 years and over2007 National
Drug Household Survey
This graph reports the proportion of the
population aged 14 years or older in Australia
who reported recently not using the drug
(including alcohol and tobacco). Recent use is
defined as using in the last 12 months.

Slide courtesy Paul Dillon Drug and Alcohol
Research and Training Australia (DARTA)
www.darta.net.au
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2007 NHS Changes in drug use over time- 14 years
and over2007 National Drug Household Survey

Slide courtesy Paul Dillon Drug and Alcohol
Research and Training Australia (DARTA)
www.darta.net.au
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2007 NHS Changes in recent use over time- 14
years and over 2007 National Drug Household
Survey

Slide courtesy Paul Dillon Drug and Alcohol
Research and Training Australia (DARTA)
www.darta.net.au
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Counting the cost of drug use in Australia

• Estimates of the annual social costs of drug use
  in Australia 19989 (Collins Lapsley, 2002)
• tobacco over 21 billion
• alcohol over 7.5 billion
• illicit drugs over 6 billion

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Drug use- ever used South Australian
studentsAustralian Secondary Students Alcohol
and Drugs Survey 2005
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Recent drug useSouth Australian
studentsAustralian Secondary Students Alcohol
and Drugs Survey 2005
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In this setting, how many young people

• HOW MANY 12-15 year olds
• have never had a full serve of alcohol?
• A 65
• Have never smoked tobacco?
• A 95.7
• HOW MANY 12-19 year olds
• have never used cannabis?
• A 75
• have never used another illegal drug?
• A 98

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The costs of smoking tobacco

• Of 1.3 billion smokers alive today, 650m will
  eventually be killed by tobacco
• 5.4m deaths per year globally
• Expected to rise to 8m by 2030 (80 in developing
  countries)
• Data from QuitSA newsletter, Oct 2008

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South Australians are aware!

• 95.8 of all South Australians and 92.7 of SA
  smokers believe smoking causes illness or damage
  to the body
• 86.5 (77.8 of smokers) agree that passive
  smoking causes illness or damage
• 86.4 support banning of smoking in hotels
• Data from QuitSA newsletter, Oct 2008

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Trends in adult smoking prevalence Australia
Male
Male
Female
Persons
Female
Data Source 2004 National Drug Strategy
Household Survey
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Alcohol! The cost involved

• 1 in 5 general hospital administrations
• 2 in 5 serious road accidents
• 2 in 5 divorces or separations
• 3 in 4 violent assaults
• 1 in 3 drownings

   
Source Speaking on Drug Issues Talks for
community groups about alcohol and other drugs ADF
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2006 ABS Report card onAustralias alcohol
consumption

• The flow-on effects to health services was
  also marked. In the seven years from 1998-99 to
  2004-05, the overall number of hospital
  admissions with a principal diagnosis of mental
  and behavioural disorders due to alcohol
  increased from 23,490 to 35,152.This data is
  from Alcohol Consumption in Australia A
  Snapshot, 2004-05.
• Available online www.abs.gov.au

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Alcohol consumption Litres of pure alcohol per
capita, population 15 years and over 1963 -2003
OECD Health Data 2004 ABS 2004
Slide courtesy Paul Dillon Drug and Alcohol
Research and Training Australia (DARTA)
www.darta.net.au
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Reported age of first full serve of alcohol, by
age cohort (2004 NDSHS)
Slide courtesy Ann M Roche, National Centre for
Education and Training on Addiction (NCETA),
Flinders University
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who and how? ? school students
Source ASSADS 2005 (DASSA analysis of SA dataset)
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who and how? ? risky drinking students reporting
?5 drinks on any occasion in the last 2 weeks
Source ASSADS 2005 (DASSA analysis of SA
dataset)
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where? ? location of use
categories NOT directly comparable

Sources ASSADS (SA), NDSHS 2004
(Australia)
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what? ? type of alcohol usually consumed
Level of risk of alcohol related harm in the
long term NHMRC guidelines Sources NDSHS 2004
(Australia)
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Changes in types of alcohol consumed by risky
drinkers aged 15 to 17 from 2001 to 2004 (data
from 2000-2004 NAC)
The Shift to Spirits
Slide courtesy Ann M Roche, National Centre for
Education and Training on Addiction (NCETA),
Flinders University
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Hospitalisation due to drug use and acute alcohol
intoxication 2005-2006 AIHW National Hospital
Morbidity Database
Rate per 100,000 population
Age group (years)
Slide courtesy Paul Dillon Drug and Alcohol
Research and Training Australia (DARTA)
www.darta.net.au
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ILLICIT DRUGS RECENTLY USED IN THE LAST 12
MONTHS 2004 National Drug Strategy Household
Survey
2o
Alcohol use has gone from 73 1993 to 83.6 2004
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10
5
0
1993
1995
1998
2001
2004
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Cannabis use across age groups2007 National
Drug Household Survey
This graph reports the number of Australians
across age groups who report ever using cannabis
and those who used in the past year
Slide courtesy Paul Dillon Drug and Alcohol
Research and Training Australia (DARTA)
www.darta.net.au
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Cannabis non-useAustralians who have not used
cannabis across age groups2007 National Drug
Household Survey
This graph shows the number of Australians across
age groups who report never using cannabis and
those who had not used in the past year
Slide courtesy Paul Dillon Drug and Alcohol
Research and Training Australia (DARTA)
www.darta.net.au
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Cannabis recent use, Males and Females2007
National Drug Household Survey

Slide courtesy Paul Dillon Drug and Alcohol
Research and Training Australia (DARTA)
www.darta.net.au
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Cannabis no recent use (in past 12
months)Males and Females2007 National Drug
Household Survey

Slide courtesy Paul Dillon Drug and Alcohol
Research and Training Australia (DARTA)
www.darta.net.au
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Cannabis- costs

• Compared with other illicit drugs, cannabis use
  rates second to heroin in terms of healthy years
  of life lost to Australians
• Cannabis use before 15 years predicts at 16 years
• School drop-out (22.5 versus 3.5
• Frequent truanting (31.5 versus 4.7)
• When other factors considered, 3 X risk of
  leaving schools without formal qualifications

Information from 2008 national cannabis
prevention and information centre (ncpic)
workshop
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Cannabis costs

• Increased risk of poor mental health outcomes
  including
• Suicide
• Other substance use
• Criminal behaviour
• Reduced life opportunities
• Adolescents develop dependence at a faster rate
  and at a lower exposure that do adults

Information from 2008 national cannabis
prevention and information centre (ncpic) workshop
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Cannabis risks and harms?

• Long term
• increased risk of respiratory diseases, including
  cancer
• decreased memory and learning abilities
• decreased motivation
• Dependence?
• Prevalence rates amongst those who ever try
  cannabis are 9-15
• The risk increased the more often cannabis is
  smoked
• Early initiation is linked with progression to
  heavy use and dependence
• Hall, W and Pacula, R (2003) Cannabis use
  and dependence

Information from 2008 national cannabis
prevention and information centre (ncpic) workshop
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Ecstasy How have things changed? (all ages) 2004
National Drug Household Survey Results
(Australian Institute of Health and Welfare,
2005)

Slide courtesy Paul Dillon Drug and Alcohol
Research and Training Australia (DARTA)
www.darta.net.au
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Ecstasy use across age groups2007 National Drug
Household Survey

Slide courtesy Paul Dillon Drug and Alcohol
Research and Training Australia (DARTA)
www.darta.net.au
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Australians who have not used ecstasy across age
groups 2007 National Drug Household Survey
This graph shows the number of Australians across
age groups who report never using ecstasy and
those who had not used in the past year

Slide courtesy Paul Dillon Drug and Alcohol
Research and Training Australia (DARTA)
www.darta.net.au
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Recent use of ecstasy by gender2007 National
Drug Household Survey

This graph reports the number of Australians
(males and females reported separately) who
report using ecstasy in the past year Males
across all age groups are more likely to have
used ecstasy in the past year compared to their
female counterparts. Females aged 14-19 years
however are most likely to use at higher rates
than males of the same age
Slide courtesy Paul Dillon Drug and Alcohol
Research and Training Australia (DARTA)
www.darta.net.au
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No recent use (in past 12 months) of ecstasy
Males and Females 2007 National Drug Household
Survey
This graph shows the number of Australians across
age groups and gender who report not using
ecstasy in the past year

Slide courtesy Paul Dillon Drug and Alcohol
Research and Training Australia (DARTA)
www.darta.net.au
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Methamphetamine recent use (past 12 months) by
gender2007 National Drug Household Survey

Slide courtesy Paul Dillon Drug and Alcohol
Research and Training Australia (DARTA)
www.darta.net.au
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Methamphetamine those who havent used
methamphetamine by gender2004 National Drug
Household Survey

Slide courtesy Paul Dillon Drug and Alcohol
Research and Training Australia (DARTA)
www.darta.net.au
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Recent use (past 12 months) of methamphetamine by
males (1995-2007)2007 National Drug Household
Survey

Slide courtesy Paul Dillon Drug and Alcohol
Research and Training Australia (DARTA)
www.darta.net.au
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Recent use (past 12 months) of methamphetamine by
females (1995-2007)2007 National Drug Household
Survey

Slide courtesy Paul Dillon Drug and Alcohol
Research and Training Australia (DARTA)
www.darta.net.au
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Further information, contacts?

• Please familiarise yourself with this Drug
  Strategy website
• The resources section has information about
  relevant reports, about substances, methodology,
  and resources for drug education
• Please contact Drug Strategy team for further
  information, to arrange a conversation or
  professional learning opportunity at your school
• Phone [phone]. Email
• Jan Warren warren.jan_at_saugov.sa.gov.au
• Jan Burgess burgess.jan3_at_saugov.sa.gov.au