Understanding alcohol dependency

Alcohol withdrawals occur when someone stops or reduces their alcohol intake after excessively ingesting the drug for weeks, months, or years

Culture central to rehabilitation

Gumbi Gumbi Drug and Alcohol Awareness Rehabilitation Centre is at the pinnacle of rehabilitation for substance abuse

Give up the grog in Ocsober

“I’m really proud to be able to promote Ocsober,” says David. “I don’t drink myself and I’ve never been a big drinker because I like to get up every morning and feel good. I think Ocsober is a great idea because it helps to create awareness of exactly how much you are drinking and what […]

Josie Janz

Stats Height: 185cmWeight: 82kgAge: 21Mob: Torres Straight Islander (Thursday Island)Position/s: GD (Goal Defence) and GK (Goal Keeper)Nickname: Josie, JJ, or JosePets: None at the moment, but I had a pet rabbit once called Benny. Brothers and sisters: I have an older brother, Michael, and a younger sister, Alicia. How long have you played netball for? […]

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 […]

Grog Rules

Learn to take control of the grog before it takes control of you. Most people think a few beers at a sausage sizzle or a couple of glasses of wine with dinner are okay. Sure, the grog is okay in moderation, but if you drink too much you can do serious damage to your body. […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Kidney disease – Prevention is better than cure

The incidence of kidney failure in some Aboriginal communities is 30 times that of the national average. Don’t let it happen to you. Kidney disease in Indigenous communities is now been proclaimed as a “national tragedy”, according to Kidney Health Australia. The only way that this tragedy can be reversed is through early detection and […]

A Growing Concern

Drinking alcohol can damage your unborn baby. Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is brain damage and other disorders that can be caused to children through women drinking during their pregnancy. This is because alcohol interferes with the normal development of a foetus (the baby growing in the womb). FASD includes: Foetal alcohol syndrome Growth retardation; […]

Binge Drinking

Binge drinking is when someone drinks a lot of alcohol over a couple of hours, or even non-stop over days or weeks. It’s a dangerous thing to do, because it can make the side-effects from alcohol even worse. Drinking alcohol damages your heart, brain, liver, muscles, pancreas, lungs, genitals (in guys), intestines, blood and nervous […]

Sensible Drinking

It’s all very well to talk about sensible drinking, what does it mean when someone talks about a standard drink? It’s confusing because a standard drink can come in all shapes and sizes, but all standard drinks contain about 10 grams of alcohol. The drinks are different sizes because some are stronger than others. But […]