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Three charts on: Australia's changing drug and alcohol habits

  • Written by Nicole Lee, Professor at the National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University

Australians are using less alcohol, tobacco and other drugs than they did a decade ago, new results from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare’s (AIHW) National Drug Strategy Household Survey show.

Although the drug of most concern to the general public is methamphetamine, the rate of methamphetamine use has been showing a steady...

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