Narrative Therapy
ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE:
HEALTH IMPACTS AND PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS
In the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 1997 10,000 people had prevalence to substance abuse disorders.
Dependence - has replaced the word addiction
Harmful use has replaced the word Abuse
Australia is ranked 15TH in the world with Alcohol Abuse. France is ranked No. 1
Drug use disorders overall substance abuse 18-25 21.5% males 10.6% females
Alcohol abuse is most prevalent in these age groups, although female figures are consistently lower.
30% of the Australia Population smoke, 99% of these are also substance abusers.
It should be noted that most substance abusers poly drug use. Although heroin users don't as a rule drink alcohol when on heroin (alcohol and heroin can cause a fatal overdose.)
Cocaine (professional drug) use in Melbourne has been minimal, because Cocaine makes people hyper alert (there has not been a Cocaine overdose in Melbourne).
It appears that Cocaine is widely spread in the hospitality industry to keep people AWAKE!
HEROIN is the opposite it slows you down.
Heroin is a major concern with young mother's using/or expectant mothers, Expectant mothers on heroin can have premature spontaneous abortion. Heroin users that a pregnant may have development delays. Heroin users are usually irritable and agitated and have extreme feeding problems. With feeding there is also the nutrition issue. A large percentage of young children who's parents or parent are heroin abusers may become orphans.
Heroin addicts that are mothers have a big affect on all people around them not just themselves.
RISKS WITH TAKING DRUGS
AMPHETAMINES & HALLUCINOGENS: People take risks driving
Although these do not become addictive.
When withdrawing from amphetamines there is a tendency to become violent., be grandiose, expansive, aggressive, paranoid and suspicious.
HEALTH IMPACTS AND PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS
In the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 1997 10,000 people had prevalence to substance abuse disorders.
Dependence - has replaced the word addiction
Harmful use has replaced the word Abuse
Australia is ranked 15TH in the world with Alcohol Abuse. France is ranked No. 1
Drug use disorders overall substance abuse 18-25 21.5% males 10.6% females
Alcohol abuse is most prevalent in these age groups, although female figures are consistently lower.
30% of the Australia Population smoke, 99% of these are also substance abusers.
It should be noted that most substance abusers poly drug use. Although heroin users don't as a rule drink alcohol when on heroin (alcohol and heroin can cause a fatal overdose.)
Cocaine (professional drug) use in Melbourne has been minimal, because Cocaine makes people hyper alert (there has not been a Cocaine overdose in Melbourne).
It appears that Cocaine is widely spread in the hospitality industry to keep people AWAKE!
HEROIN is the opposite it slows you down.
Heroin is a major concern with young mother's using/or expectant mothers, Expectant mothers on heroin can have premature spontaneous abortion. Heroin users that a pregnant may have development delays. Heroin users are usually irritable and agitated and have extreme feeding problems. With feeding there is also the nutrition issue. A large percentage of young children who's parents or parent are heroin abusers may become orphans.
Heroin addicts that are mothers have a big affect on all people around them not just themselves.
RISKS WITH TAKING DRUGS
AMPHETAMINES & HALLUCINOGENS: People take risks driving
Although these do not become addictive.
When withdrawing from amphetamines there is a tendency to become violent., be grandiose, expansive, aggressive, paranoid and suspicious.