Sex, Drugs and Rock n Roll

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Sex, Drugs and Rock n Roll!

• Keith Robertson
• Chief Underwriter

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Some history

• Wine, women and song
• 1869 Johann Strauss II waltz Wine, women and
  song
• Ian Dury 1977 single Sex and drugs and rock n
  roll

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Sexually transmitted disease

• STD diagnoses at GUM (genitourinary medicine)
  clinics in the UK 1996-2005
• Syphilis Gonorrhoea Chlamydia Herpes Warts
  All
• change
• (2004-2005) 23 -13 5 4 1 3
• change
• (1996-2005) 2,054 54 207 18 26 60

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HIV update
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HIV continued
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HIV update
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HIV update
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Drugs what happens?

• Cocaine stimulant
• Crack
• Amphetamine (Speed)
• Cannabis
• Ecstasy (MDMA)
• Heroin

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Drug update

• Influencing factors
• Genetic predisposition
• 2008 Government 10 year strategy finishes
• Helping young people resist
• Protect communities
• Enable drug users to break free
• Disrupting drug supply

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Alcohol update

• Alcohol is responsible for a percentage of a
  number of conditions, as follows
• Cirrhosis - 32
• Motor vehicle accidents - 20
• Mouth and oropharyngeal cancers - 19
• Oesophageal cancer - 29
• Liver cancer - 25
• Breast cancer - 7
• Murders - 24
• Suicides - 11
• Haemorrhagic stroke - 10

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The future?

• Sex will it remain?
• Drugs
• Legalisation
• New forms

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Long Live Rock n Roll!

• Question Time?