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Australian teenagers against alcohol related violence

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Over 1,000 teenagers in the Australian coastal city of Geelong have united to make a bold stand against the growth in alcohol related violence. The problem is now so prevalent that one in five Australians now claim to have suffered violence as a result of alcohol, or know a family member who has. In Australia’s most populated state, New South Wales, there has been a 7% increase in alcohol related violence in the last year alone.

    My first experience with a drunk person

    I remember I was about eight or nine years old and someone came to our house. He brought a whole bottle of some odd drink and sat on the table with my family. He started drinking it and had about 1 glass of it. I noticed his face was getting pretty red. I thought he just felt hot or something ( even if outside was - 10 degrees). After his third glass he started stuttering and pronouncing his words pretty much unclearly.  I really didn't know what was going on with this man.

      The Prohibition Paradox

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      Ross Bell (New Zealand Drug Foundation Director) talks fallacy of the idea which drives much drug policy that we can achieve a 'drug free world', and says that a pragmatic and humane approach needs to accept the reality that drug use and drug based economies will always exist.

      He frames the issue in terms of two continuums:

        Shocking drink-driving advert

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        Advertising campaigns like this have helped reduce the amount of accident caused due to drink-driving.

          Drugs and Alcohol

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          Filmed by the local people of Nanda. A small town in South Africa they interview the youth from the town, talking about there everyday life in Nanda. The youth complain that there is no employment opportunities and  the police keep harassing them for crimes that they have not committed, so they spend their time drinking and smoking marijuana.

            Drug taking parents

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            Skyy vodka had no problem associating drug use with good parenting. Can parents responsibly use drugs and alcohol? If your parents used drugs and alcohol how were you affected by it?

              Children drinking alcohol

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              Children get hold of drugs and alcohol despite the law. We obviously need to protect children. The availability of drugs and alcohol to school age children indicates we are not doing a very good job of it.

              Surely better education would be better than heavy use of the law. Giving a criminal record to somebody starting out in life for a small quantity of cannabis or something similar, seems to be a crazy thing for a society to do.

                Andy, Scotland

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                My name is Andy and I come from Scotland. I had addiction issues myself in the past, with mainly heroin and alcohol but have been free from drugs for eight years and haven’t drunk alcohol for almost two years.

                I first started trying to sort myself out when I was 21 and had various jobs mainly in the construction trade, but they were just to earn money. What I really wanted to do was help people who had drug and other issues.

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