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Article: Drug links to mental health.(Drugs)(Brief Article)
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- Youth Studies Australia
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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* Binge drinking and the wide use of soft drugs is being blamed for a rising number of teenagers presenting to mental health services. Human Rights Commissioner Sev Ozdowski, in an address to the National Press Club, said teenagers were playing 'Russian roulette' with their lives by using recreational drugs such as cannabis, amphetamines and ecstasy and drinking to excess. This was placing strains on already inadequate state mental health facilities. Australia, he said, spends only 7% of its health budget on mental health, ...
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