LMFAO, we drink our mass murder juice yet we have no mass murders hahaha you crack me up.
How is this not mass murder?
Q. How many young people die from alcohol-related harms?
A. Alcohol is involved in 13% of all deaths among 14–17-year-old Australians. It has been estimated that one Australian teenager dies and more than 60 are hospitalised each week from alcohol-related harms.
Drinking contributes to the three leading causes of death among adolescents – unintentional injuries, homicide and suicide
[SUP]17[/SUP].
And it seems like you have real serious issues in your country with your mass murder juice that you love and cherish.
Q. How many people are affected by someone else’s drinking?
A. Almost three-quarters of adult Australians (which equates to 10 million people) were adversely affected by someone else’s alcohol consumption in 2008. The harms range from nuisances such as street noise and minor property damage to severe harms such as child abuse and alcohol-fuelled violence resulting in fatality.
Each year the harms from other people’s drinking also result in:
- 367 deaths
- 14,000 people are hospitalised
- 70,000 people are victims of alcohol-related violence
- 24,000 people are victims of domestic violence
- Almost 20,000 children are victims of substantiated alcohol-related child abuse[SUP]14[/SUP]
The Range and Magnitude of Alcohol’s
Harm to Others report contains greater details of the harms to people other than the drinker.
Q. How much do alcohol related harms cost the Australian community?
A. The total cost of alcohol misuse in Australia was found to be $36 billion each year. The total cost includes:
- $6.39 billion – Pain and suffering from diminished quality of life
- $9.3 billion – Cost of time lost or spent
- $4.621 billion – Loss of life
- $3.954 billion – Labour costs
- $2.576 billion – Out-of-pocket expenses
- $2.461 billion – Road accidents
- $2.210 billion – Total health care
- $1.888 billion – Resources used in abusive consumption
- $1.592 billion – Crime
- $670 million – Child protection costs
- $396 million – Pain and suffering
FAQs About Alcohol « FARE