{"id":8359,"date":"2012-05-29T11:43:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T11:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=8359"},"modified":"2016-09-20T21:20:31","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T21:20:31","slug":"australians-and-drug-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2012\/05\/australians-and-drug-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Australians and Drug Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australians are the world\u2019s highest ecstasy users in the world.<br \/>\n<em>\u00a0(Source: U N Office of Drugs and Crime, World Drug Report June 2009).<\/em><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nEcstasy is the second most commonly used illicit drug in Australia.<br \/>\n\u00a0<em>(Source: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2008)<\/em><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nA third of all ecstasy seized globally in 2008 was destined for Australia.<br \/>\n<em>\u00a0(Source: International Narcotics Control Board annual report 2010)<\/em><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>DRUG ADVISORY COUNCIL COMMENTS-<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAustralia has a culture of illicit drug use which is attracting supply.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThis culture is supported by policies of syringe distribution, drug maintenance\u00a0 and drug substitution.\u00a0Celebrities because of their high public profile highlight this drug culture\u00a0and the effects on them and their families.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWhilst public debate on the effects of illicit drugs is useful, these drugs are<br \/>\nillegal because they are PROVEN dangerous.\u00a0The violence, mental illness, psychosis and\u00a0chaos of all illicit drugs are well\u00a0documented and scientifically proven.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe drug culture can only be changed with policies that REDUCE demand and<br \/>\ndivert illicit drug users into rehabilitation that produce abstinence from<br \/>\nfuture use.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCourt ordered and supervised illicit drug orders should be used to divert all<br \/>\nidentified illicit drug users into rehabilitation.\u00a0Only reduced demand by rehabilitation will starve international criminals of\u00a0 funds from illicit drugs.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>THE DRUG ADVISORY COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA SUPPORTS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More detoxification &amp; rehabilitation that gets illicit drug user\u2019s drug free.<br \/>\nCourt ordered and supervised detoxification &amp; rehabilitation.<br \/>\nLess illicit drug users, drug pushers and drug related crimes.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n<em>Source:\u00a0 Drug Advisory Council of Australia\u00a0 (DACA) August 2010<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australians are the world\u2019s highest ecstasy users in the world. \u00a0(Source: U N Office of Drugs and Crime, World Drug Report June 2009). \u00a0 Ecstasy is the second most commonly used illicit drug in Australia. \u00a0(Source: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2008) \u00a0 A third of all ecstasy seized globally in 2008 was destined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-treatment-addiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8359","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=8359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}