{"id":18226,"date":"2024-11-23T17:49:58","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T16:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=18226"},"modified":"2024-12-10T21:53:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T20:53:40","slug":"national-centre-for-youth-substance-use-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2024\/11\/national-centre-for-youth-substance-use-research\/","title":{"rendered":"National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

Submission to the Joint Select Committee on Social Media and <\/strong>Australian Society<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Executive Summary<\/strong><\/span><\/em>
\nSocial media platforms have become a major part of young Australians’ lives. While these
\nplatforms have many benefits, they also expose youth to content that promotes substance use,
\nincluding alcohol, tobacco, e-cigarettes, and illicit drugs. This is concerning because:
\n1. There are often no effective age restrictions on this content.
\n2. Substance-related posts are widely available and mostly show drug use in a positive
\nlight.
\n3. Young people are seeing alcohol related advertisements on social media every few
\nminutes.
\n4. Exposure to this content can normalise substance use by young people and undermine
\nthe perceived harms of substance use.<\/p>\n

The Australian government and social media companies need to work together to protect
\nyoung people from this harmful content. This could include better age verification, stricter
\ncontent policies, and using technology to detect and remove posts promoting illegal
\nsubstances.<\/p>\n

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  1. Click on the ‘Source’ link below.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. An image\u00a0 \u2013 the front page of the full document will appear.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Click on the image to open the full document.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Source: National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research<\/a><\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Submission to the Joint Select Committee on Social Media and Australian Society Executive Summary Social media platforms have become a major part of young Australians’ lives. While these platforms have many benefits, they also expose youth to content that promotes substance use, including alcohol, tobacco, e-cigarettes, and illicit drugs. This is concerning because: 1. There […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,15,30,68,120,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol","category-australia","category-cannabis-marijuana","category-drug-use-various-effects","category-mental-health","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}