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Understanding alcohol dependency
Alcohol withdrawals occur when someone stops or reduces their alcohol intake after excessively ingesting the drug for weeks, months, or years
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Dealing with gambling
Ex NRL superstar Ashley Gordon is using his skillset to help with the NSW Aboriginal Safe Gambling Program
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Don’t give up on giving up
Darwin woman Sekur Clayton is blogging her experiences to the world through the No Smokes website
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Marijuana use linked to testicular cancer
Marijuana use has been linked to an extremely aggressive form of testicular cancer, scientists have said in a study published this week. After studying a group of 369 American men aged between 18 to 22 with testicular cancer, and 979 in the same age bracket without the diseases, it was found that marijuana users were […]
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When you just can’t stop
Compulsive, obsessive and excessive, that’s an addiction It is most commonly associated with drugs and alcohol, but addiction is something that can affect people from all walks of life, including those who have never tried alcohol or taken a drug in their lives. The word addiction is generally used to describe an obsession, compulsion or […]
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Bottle Blues (Alcohol)
Don’t kid yourself – alcohol is a drug too. A lot of us don’t realise that, just like marijuana, ice or heroin, alcohol is a drug. And it’s not just any drug – it’s the most widely used drug in Australia. While there are some potential health benefits linked to the light consumption of alcohol, […]
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Battle of the Binge (Binge Drinking)
Binge drinking an “epidemic” among young Australians. The Federal Government has announced millions of dollars of funding to tackle what it calls the binge drinking “epidemic” among young Australians. Research has revealed that, in any in any given week, around 170,000 12- to 17-year-olds are binge drinking or drinking at dangerous levels. One in five […]
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High Stakes (Gambling)
Gambling can hurt more than just your hip pocket. There are currently more than 300,000 problem gamblers in Australia. For each one of these problem gamblers, many other people are also affected – family, friends, husbands and wives, children, employers and employees. Gambling is basically risking money on an outcome, usually involving chance. People gamble […]
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Alcohol
During the holiday season, people tend to consume more alcohol. Although you may have heard that moderate consumption of alcohol protects against cardiovascular disease, this generally only refers to those people over the age of 45. More men die as a result of alcohol than are saved by moderate alcohol intake. In fact, alcohol is […]
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Battle of the booze (Alcohol)
A shocking new report reveals just how much the grog is hurting us. Alcohol kills an average of one Indigenous Australian every 38 hours. This is the horrifying finding of a National Drug Research Institute (NDRI) report into alcohol-attributable deaths among Indigenous Australians. Researchers found that alcohol killed1145 Indigenous Australians between 2000 and 2004. The […]
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Gambling
According to many Elders, gambling is destroying Aboriginal communities. Kooris have always gambled with each other as a social activity, however the money would always stay in the community. But it’s different now. The pokies take money from these communities and they never see it again. Many communities are impoverished enough as it is. They […]
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Standard Drinks and You
A standard drink is any drink that contains 10 grams of alcohol. It can be hard to work out standard drinks because different types of drinks contain different amounts of alcohol, are mixed with different ingredients and come in different sized containers. Sometimes you can tell how many standard drinks your drink contains by looking […]
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Ditch Those Durries
Every single cigarette you smoke is harming your body. The list of health problems caused by smoking is literally endless. The problem is, most of us think that smoking-related illness only happens to old people who’ve been smoking all their lives. Wrong – smoking starts to hurt your health from the very first puff, no […]
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Don’t Blow It (Smoking)
Your smoking doesn’t just hurt you ” it hurts your family too. When you’re smoking, other people around you are also exposed to your cigarette smoke. When other people breathe that smoke in, this is called passive smoking. There are three types of passive smoke produced by cigarette smoking. They are: Mainstream smoke ” this […]
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Just Kickin’ It! (Smoking)
Wanna ditch the durries? You don’t have to do it alone. Cigarette smoking is responsible for more deaths in the Indigenous population than either alcohol or petrol sniffing. More than 50 per cent of our mob smoke, and this is having a serious impact on our health and life expectancies. Dr Rowena Ivers, from the […]
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High Stakes (Gambling)
We all enjoy a bit of a flutter once in a while. But for some people, gambling is a debilitating addiction. Approximately two per cent of all Australians, or 330,000 people, have a gambling problem. Problem gambling destroys careers and relationships, breaks up families and often leaves the gambler with insurmountable debts that they ultimately […]
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