It’s very Australian to drink lots of alcohol – and it seems that most of the population don’t want to be seen as un-Australian.
This worrying article tells of some of the problems caused by alcohol in our society.
AUSTRALIANS must rethink their alcohol habits to overcome an epidemic of binge drinking by young people, drug experts say.
“Our culture is so alcohol-sozzled and it really needs to change,” Professor Margaret Hamilton, director of Melbourne’s Turning Point alcohol and drug centre, said today.
Professor Hamilton said at a youth affairs forum that the positive portrayal of alcohol consumption by parents and role models would have to change.
It was seen as normal behaviour to get “pissed”, Professor Hamilton said.
Figures supplied by the forum show 29 per cent of boys aged between 16 and 17 binge drink on a regular basis, and so do about 15 per cent of girls in the same age group.
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I have never been a heavy drinker and have never once been drunk. A couple of beers or preferably a couple of glasses of red is about my limit but obviously it’s more of a problem for many others.
Part of the answer, according to some of the experts, is a media education campaign. I’m sure that education can be helpful but I can’t help thinking that it’s dealing with the symptoms rather than the cause. Surely there’s more to it below the surface.
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