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| Government figures released earlier this year revealed that binge drinking took some 3,300 11-15 year olds into English hospitals, that's about nine children each day. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | Prophecy Today - Septmeber/October 2004 |
| 44 per cent of all violent crime is related to the use and abuse of alcohol. Seventy per cent of weekend night admissions to casualty can also be blamed on alcohol. The use and abuse of alcohol costs Britain around £20 billion a year through crime, injuries and lost work productivity. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | Youthwork - September 2004 |
| Research by the School's Health Education Unit of Exeter University, suggests that young people living in the suburbs and country areas drink up to twice as much alcohol as their equivalents residing near the centre of a large town or city. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | Youthwork - August 2004 |
| According to research from magazine group Emap, seven out of ten teens polled believed that cannabis should not be legalised, with many blaming weak drug laws for the fact that so many of them (44 per cent) had been offered drugs at school. 23 per cent admitted to taking them, and 75 per cent of 15 year olds said that they consumed an average of five alcoholic drinks on any night out. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | Youthwork - August 2004 |
| Department of Health figures revealed that nine children per day are admitted to hospital for alcohol abuse. Aged 11-15, they totalled 3,322 children in 2002/03. According to Government figures, the average weekly alcohol consumption in 2003 for those aged 11-15 was 9.5 units, or five pints of beer, almost doubling the 5.3 units drank per week in 1990. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | The Baptist Times - 22nd July 2004 |
| A study carried out by the Institute for Alcohol Studies four years ago found that, of those who first had sex at the age of 13 and 14, 40 per cent reported being drunk or stoned. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | The Baptist Times - 22nd July 2004 |
| Alcohol abuse: some sobering facts- Costs the NHS £3.3 billion per year (12 per cent of the budget). 1 in 4 acute male hospital admissions is alcohol related. 21 per cent of psychiatric admissions is alcohol related. Since the early 1970s deaths from chronic liver disease have risen 800 per cent in men and 700 per cent in women in the 35 - 44 age bracket. Costs the economy over £3 billion per year in sickness absense, unemployment, premature deaths, crime and accidents. Alcohol is implicated in 49 per cent of violent crimes, 39 per cent of deaths in fires, 15 per cent in drownings and 1 in 7 road accidents. 60 per cent of police officers said that alcohol had a greater impact on their workload than drugs, and none said drugs had a greater impact. Marriages where one or both partners have an alcohol problem are twice likely to break down as other marriages. 11-15 year olds consumed nearly twice as much in 2001 as they did in 1990. Children of problem drinkers have higher levels of behavioural difficulty, school problems and emotional disturbance. After drinking, 1 in 7 16-24 year olds have had unsafe sex, 1 in 5 had sex they later regretted, 40 per cent are more likely to have had casual sex and 1 in 10 can't remember if they had sex at all! And 40 per cent were drunk or stoned when they lost their virginity. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | Joy - July 2004 |
| An NOP poll commishioned by the Salvation Army found that 93 per cent of the public felt there were enough opportunities to gamble in the UK. 82 per cent of the population think that people are more likely to lose money if they drink alcohol while gambling. The poll was conducted by telephone between November 28-30 2003 among a nationally representative sample of 973 adults aged 18 and over. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | Methodist Recorder - 17th June 2004 |
| Experts believe cocaine use has become far more prevalent in Britain in the last 10 years. A recent survey by the music magazine MixMag suggested it could soon overtake ecstasy as the dance drug of choice in clubs. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | The Guardian |
| According to the most recent British Crime Survey figures, for 2001-2, 58,000 people had used the smokable and highly addictive "crack" form of cocaine within the previous 12 months, and 622,000 people had used pure cocaine. In the US, it is estimated that 900,000 people a year present themselves at clinics for treatment for cocaine dependency. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | The Guardian |
| Newly released national figures show that between 1995 and 2003, anti-depressant prescriptions for 16-18 year olds in full time education trebled. Across the country, 140,000 young people were taking the tablets. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | Sentinel Sunday |
| A survey of children in Europe and North America, released by the World Health Organisation last week, revealed high levels of binge drinking and underage, unprotected sex among British teenagers. Recent research consistently shows that in the UK there is close to gender parity in the consumption of alcohol and in having sex at an early age. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | The Guardian |
| Cannabis- The possession and selling of cannabis is still illegal. Cannabis is now a Class C drug (alongside tranquillisers and GHB). The first offence of possession will usually be ignored. First warnings will lead to referral to the Youth Offending Team. Subsequent offences will result in a charge being made and a criminal record. The maximum penalty for possession (if you are over 18) is 2 years in jail, plus an unlimited fine. Supplying or dealing cannabis, or any Class C drug will result in a maximum of 14 years in jail plus a fine. Long or short term use of cannabis can lead to cancer, mental illness, depression, apathy and memory loss. 15.3 per cent of 16 to 19 year olds said they had used cannabis in the last month, according to the latest figures (2003). | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | Youth Work - June 2004 |
| Binge drinking costs the taxpayer around £20billion a year....There are six million binge drinkers in the UK | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | Daily Mail - May 21, 2004 |
| Brazil ranks only after the USA as the second biggest consumer of cocaine. | |
| Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions | Justright - Issue 10 |
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