Alcoholism

Radical laws to ban drinking at home

DRINKING a glass of wine in your own home could be illegal under extreme new liquor laws that rubber-stamp the use of no-go alcohol zones in NSW.

Stirring up images of 1930s’ prohibition in the US, the Iemma Government is using the total ban on alcohol in some Aboriginal communities as a blueprint.
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One in 10 teenagers binge-drinking each week

THE scourge of alcohol abuse across Australia is far worse than previously thought, with one in five 16- and 17-year-olds now binge-drinking in any given week and nearly 500,000 children living at risk of exposure to an adult drinking at harmful levels.

The figures on cannabis use are equally disturbing, with one in seven secondary school students using the drug within the past 12 months.

The problem has been allowed to reach such plague proportions because most Australians consider drinking and drug use by young people to be a normal activity and “often seen as a rite of passage to adulthood”, Australian National Council on Drugs chairman John Herron warns.
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I think my dad might be an alcoholic, how can I help?

Alcoholism is a disease. An alcoholic is someone who cannot control his drinking.

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Alcohol related brain damage

Alcohol is one of the many causes of acquired brain injury.

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Alcoholism – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Alcoholism is generally defined as the consistent and excessive consumption of and/or preoccupation with alcoholic beverages to the extent that this behavior interferes with an individual's normal personal, family, social, or work life

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