More support should be provided to the families of drug and alcohol abusers. A report by the ANCD released dangerous details about alcohol, cannabis and amphetamine use by teenagers and their parents. More than 450,000 children live in homes where adults binge drink and 1/5th of 16-year-olds binge drink in any given week. The alarming report also showed about 1/10th of teenagers have abused alcohol in the past week, while 67,000 high school students have taken amphetamines in the last year. These stats were compiled in Australia, and since the report, a bill was passed that would ban alcohol advertising before 9pm, require health information labels on all alcohol products and ensure all alcohol advertising was pre-approved by a government body and did not link drinking to success. Alcohol kills three times more Australians than illicit drugs. Well I'm glad Australia is showing that they care about its citizens, but it sounds like illicit drugs are still a big problem.

I'm sure Australia and the US has comparable statistics.  But I haven't seen a ton of information showing that alcohol use among teens is increasing... I wonder if poeple are just realizing it now.  But it was definately the popular thing to do at my high school.  If there was a fat party, the whole school was there.