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Currently, alcohol prohibition is enforced in many Muslim majority countries, in parts of India, and in some Indigenous Australian communities and certain northern communities in the Canadian territories. [1] They can range from complete ban all the way to bans on sales during certain times. [2] Afghanistan [3]
Alcohol abuse is fueling high rates of domestic violence and youth crime in Indigenous communities. [4] As two-thirds of the population in remote Australia are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders , these individuals are 1.5 times more likely to consuming alcohol at a risk-taking level. [ 1 ]
A range of laws applying to or of specific relevance to Indigenous Australians.A number of laws have been passed since the European settlement of Australia, initially by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, then by the Governors or legislature of each of the Australian colonies and more recently by the Parliament of Australia and that of each of its States and Territories, these laws ...
Alcohol and Pornography Ban Warning sign at an Aboriginal community near Alice Springs, Northern Territory. The Northern Territory National Emergency Response, also known as "The Intervention" or the Northern Territory Intervention, and sometimes the abbreviation "NTER" (for Northern Territory Emergency Response) was a package of measures enforced by legislation affecting Indigenous ...
Of all alcohol-attributable deaths, motor vehicle accidents account for 27.5% and alcoholic liver disease accounts for 25.2%. Alcohol-related fatal car accidents are three times more prevalent among Native Americans than in other ethnicities. Alcohol was shown to be a factor in 69% of all suicides of Native Americans between 1980 and 1998. [163]
There has been a noticeable decrease in alcohol-fuelled violence and dysfunction in the communities that have faced alcohol bans and restrictions. In 2012 the newly elected Queensland state government, under premier Campbell Newman, proposed a winding back of the alcohol restrictions; a number of aboriginal elders and community leaders opposed ...
The 2010 ISCD study "Drug Harms in the UK: a multi-criteria decision analysis" [1] found that alcohol scored highest overall and in Economic cost, Injury, Family adversities, Environmental damage, and Community harm. Alcohol and society are closely intertwined, as it is widely consumed and legally permitted in most countries around the globe ...
Following the 2001 Cape York Justice Study findings, Yarrabah became one of many indigenous communities in Queensland to be subject to an alcohol management plan. Restrictions on alcohol possession [12] commenced on 6 February 2004, with a review by 2006. [13] A 2012 survey for another review showed the community was divided on easing ...