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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]
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]
Alcohol sales were prohibited in the Australian Capital Territory between 1910 and 1928. Four referendums regarding the prohibition of alcohol were conducted in Western Australia, including one in each of the years 1911, 1921, 1925 and 1950. In 1837, laws were passed to prevent Aboriginal access to alcohol as binge drinking became problematic. [6]
It excludes Aboriginal customary law and traditional cultural practices from criminal sentencing decisions; It bans all alcohol on large swathes of Aboriginal land, and continues to suspend the permit system in Aboriginal townships, even though these measures have been opposed by the Northern Territory's Aboriginal Peak Organisations.
In 2010–2011, health expenditure for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people was estimated at A$4.6 billion, or 3.7% of Australia's total recurrent health expenditure. [28] The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population comprised 2.5% of the Australian population at this time. [28]
However, by 2003 its society and its people had been devastated by alcohol. [8] In the early 2000s the community was declared "dry" and importation of alcohol was forbidden. By 2021 dangerous amounts of strong home-brewed alcoholic drink and of " sly grog " (smuggled alcoholic drink) were being consumed, and petrol sniffing was common.
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 ...
Alcohol tolerance is increased by regular drinking. [1] This reduced sensitivity to the physical effects of alcohol consumption requires that higher quantities of alcohol be consumed in order to achieve the same effects as before tolerance was established. Alcohol tolerance may lead to (or be a sign of) alcohol dependence. [1]