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Illicit drug use in Australia is the recreational use of prohibited drugs in Australia.Illicit drugs include illegal drugs (such as cannabis, opiates, and certain types of stimulants), pharmaceutical drugs (such as pain-killers and tranquillisers) when used for non-medical purposes, and other substances used inappropriately (such as inhalants). [1]
Fatalities resulting from medical conditions attributed to long term drug use is the second highest way heroin users in Australia die, accounting for 20-35% of total fatality rates. [5] As opioids are the drug most commonly injected in Australia, [ 2 ] heroin users are prone to diseases, such as blood-borne viruses, like Hepatitis C and HIV ...
XXXX Gold was Australia's top-selling beer by volume in 2012. Red wine grapes growing in the Barossa Valley, 2009. Alcohol is the most widely consumed drug in Australia and is frequently available at social and cultural activities. [12] On a per capita scale, 10.3 litres of pure alcohol were consumed by each Australian in 2010.
The Australian Federal Police and overseas authorities seized 23.6 tons of North American-produced meth bound for Australia in the 2022-23 financial year, the AFP said in a statement last week.
Between 2009 and 2010 there were 41,087 illicit drug offenses in Australia. Between 2013 and 2014 this number increased by over 25 percent to 50,854 drug offenses; [30] furthermore, drug use increased from 22,842 to 28,409 over the same period of time. [30] This portrays an increasing trend in the amount of drug use in Australia and drug offenses.
In 2015, the Council of Australian Governments decided it was vital to implement a new and innovative Ministerial Forum to endorse drug and alcohol preventative strategies in Australia. The Forum created a new policy, namely the National Drug Strategy, which aims to prevent and decrease harm facilitated by the excessive use of alcohol and drugs ...
A medical cannabis crop in Australia. Cannabis is a plant used in Australia for recreational, medicinal and industrial purposes. In 2022–23, 41% of Australians over the age of fourteen years had used cannabis in their lifetime and 11.5% had used cannabis in the last 12 months.
The Emerging Drugs Network of Australia (EDNA) is a collaborative multi-agency project to detect new illicit drugs, and their clinical effects. It is also designed to support early warning systems of illicit drugs and new psychoactive substances across Australia , and to inform policy and decision making processes. [ 1 ]