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SECTION B THE ICOHOL ABUSE FACTS drunk driving Here are the facts and stats on alcohol and Canadians The following statistical appeared in the Sept ion of The Journal a monthly put out by the Addiction Foundation Portions of its section on alcohol have been taken from Statistics on and Drug Use In Canada and Other Countries Volumes 1 and 2 The information Is based on data available in 1 How many Canadlani drink A 1987 national Gallup poll shows per cent of Canadian adults aged IB and older have ever had to use alcoholic beverages such as liquor wine or beer and arc not total abstainers In Ontario in 83 per cent of adults said they had used alcohol with 54 per cent of users having five drinks or more at a single sitting and per cent reporting dally drinking How much do Canadian drink In Canadians consumed million litres of absolute alco hol which works out to 10 3 litres per person aged 15 years and older or 11 drinks per week or two drinks per day per customer About per cent of what CanadJ arts drink is in the form of beer 3 How much alcohol advertising there in Canada la 1984 per cent of all advertising to which viewing listening or reading Canadians were exposed as by lime on radio and television and space in newspapers and mag a lines was paid for by breweries distilleries and wineries Also a 1986 Canadian Gallup sur reports per cent of adults favor banning all liquor advertising 4 How much money do Canadlani spend on alcohol In 198566 Canadians spent million for alcohol In retail stores and another estimated 1 billion for consumed in taverns restau rants How much money do Canadian government make on alcohol In 198586 Canadian federal and provincial government revenue de rived directly from the control and sale of alcoholic beverages reached billion or 1 9 per cent of all revenue If general retail sales taxes and federal taxes on producers and dis are Included the figure would be roughly 1 billion What are the locial or alco hol problems in Canada Alcohol related social costs due to excess useof healthcare bor productivity law enforcement and social welfare reached W bil lion for Canada and 8 billion for Ontario in 1984 How many alcoholics are there In Canada Baaed on liver cirrhosis deaths in Canada in there were an mated alcoholics that is peo ple whose alcohol consumption was sufficiently high to cause them cal damage How many Canadians contra vene alcohol related legUlationT In 1986 there were liquor act offences and people were charged with criminal offences under the liquor control acts The number of offences exceeds the number of per sons charged as one person may have been charged on more than one occasion Drugs take toll on lives How many Canadian youngsters die of drug related disorders In 1985 in Canada there were deaths from drug related diseases drug dependence dependent abuse of drugs poisonings from analgesics sedatives hypnotics and psychotropics There were 4 182 cases treated In mental hospitals for alcoholic alcohol dependence drome and abuse alcohol Alcohols legal but can still prove destructive is any forms ji it is I and Hallon s drug education practice lowered resistance to Approximately per cent of Ca charged were charged with more than one alcohol related offence during the year In 1985 alcohol related traffic of fences accounted lor per cent of all traffic offences under the Criminal Code and lor per cent of all people charged for traffic offences under the Criminal Code In 1986 there were 150 alcohol related traffic offences driv while impaired and 671 failure sample for testing Approximately 17 per cent of Canadians were charged with more than one alcohol related traffic offence during 1986 The legal drinking age in Ontario is 19 In in Ontario 19yearold drivers had the highest rate of motor vehicle accident rates Meanwhile a 1986 Canadian Gallup survey reports 62 per cent of adults favor raising the legal drinking age and per cent fa vor raising the legal driving age 10 How many were lent tall lor alcohol often In 198586 there were for drinking of fences or per cent of all and another admissions for liquor act offences or 7 per cent of ail admissions to tonal adult correctional facilities which hold prisoners sentenced for less than two years In a onemonth period In 1986 bene ficiaries received disability pensions for alcoholic psychoses alcoholism liver cirrhosis and toxic effects of 12 How many divorces are due to alcohol In there were divorces with addiction to alcohol given as the reason for marriage breakdown This represents 3 per cent of all vorces due to marriage breakdown or per cent of all grounds for dl there were cases general hospitals of alcoholic psy alcohol dependence drome nondependent abuse of alco hol chronic liver damage and cirrhosis toxic effects of alcohol al cardiomyopathy alcoholic pellagra excessive blood level of and suspected damage to the fetus from maternal alcohol lion listeriosis or toxoplasmosis It lakes any forms Ji It is ed up with fancy runs colored with mixes or served bubbling in fluted but the remains is hoi it is legal it is us diddly us any other drug According to statistics in a Shop per Drug Mart report cent of traffic fatalities and IB per cent of all traffic injuries are Impaired dnung related The pamphlet says alcohol related traffic fatalities ore Ihe leading causes of death among 10 to 19yeir olds In Canada the report 83 per The ixnagirs r of all Canadian teens or mi re drinks a single our or raon times per age of alcohol use starts at about the average i- of teenage drinking on regular basis is 16 says the Holt ised in IU86 tht report that parents reach children on alcohol abuse preferably by the time children are 10 old This theory coincides with Hallon s drug education practice The Halton Board of Education teaches children about alcohol abuse in the Grade level and in Grade children discuss alcohol as a drug soys Sue Amos the Board coordlnator Physical and Health Education Alcohol abuse can cause such con liver damage and heart and pancreas conditions as well as increasing the risk of mouth larynx esophagus and liver cancer Heavy drinking may lead to malnutrition stomach Irritation lowered resistance Irreversible brain and nervous system damage On the average the life span for a heavy drinker Is shortened to II years says the Shoppers Drug Mart report In Halton schools health educa and drug abuse Information are combined You con t teach It In isolation says Ms Amos adding the Boards goal Is to have children always value Ibeirucll being Marijuana tops the list What is the most used drug by young people In Canada Cannabis A national Gallup survey in 1985 shows per cent of teenagers aged 12 to or teens indicated they had used marijuana at least once In the previous 12 months Cannabis use varied from a high of per cent In Saskatchewan on use in the Inst six months for youngsters aged to to a low of 15 per cent in Alberta 19B3 based on use among those aged to 17 in the past six months and In Quebec secondary school students based on use in an unspecified period ll and 13 reported having used cannabis in the previous Among young adults aged to marijuana was used by 20 per cent or an estimated one million young Canadians based on a Ontario survey How many young Canadians were Involved In cannabis- re I a ted crimes There were 179 juveniles charged with cannabis related criminal offenses 1988 No drug stereo types according to committee What Is addiction It when someone needs something to gel through the day according to Drug Abuse Committee program consultant Kristin Addiction is not physical Its emotional said the DAC counsellor Ms said what she frequently sees is addictions to marijuana and hashish alcohol co caine and LSD goal Is to get to the root of the problem and not to blame an addictive drug for the situation Those who use drugs have no stan dard characteristics she said They could be neglected or abused children over achievers or they could be wealthy children who don know where to spend their money she said Through counselling defines individual needs and either provides treatment or sends the client in the appropriate direction Drug Abuse Committee of Hills Is located at Guelph Street Georgetown phone 877 9105 Facts on alcohol Elhyl alcohol is the main type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages according to lure available from the Addiction Re search Foundation of Ontario Although it can be made synthcti colly that used in beverages must be produced naturally by fermentation of fruits vegetables or grains In On most regular beers contain about 5 per cent alcohol by volume and light beers on average per Most table wines contain 10 to per cent alcohol but fortified wines such as sherry port and vermouth contain to 20 per cent In Ontario distilled spirits whisky rum gin vodka etc contain 40 per cent al A mL 12 bottle of regular beer contains approximately the same amount of alcohol as a drink 1 140 mL glass of tabic wine or an glass of fortified wine Short term effects are those that appear rapidly after a single dose and disappear within a few hours or days Alcohol in proportion to Its concen tration in the bloodstream decreases Drinking heavily over a short pe riod of time may produce a hangover headache nausea and possibly vomiting beginning eight to 12 hours later A hangover the body s reaction to too much alcohol In part it is related poisoning by alcohol and other components of the and in part It is body a re sponse to withdrawal from alcohol Kids stand up to be CHICKEN To deal the ever increasing pressure on school aged children to try drugs and alcohol the Georgetown Optimists initiated the CHICKEN peer pressure pro gram In 1980 CHICKEN children sav no to drugs and don t mind being called chickens for not trying narcotics or alcohol according to Optimist past president Sandy Booth The whole idea to counter peer pressure the CHICKEN T shirt said Mr Booth CHICKEN students who are Cool Honest In tettigent Clear headed Keen Energetic and Not Interested in drugs is a preventative as opposed to a rehabilitative program CHICKEN offers Grade 4 and students an honest alternative to alcohol and drug use Over I CHICKEN members from schools in Hills participate in the membership program that gives them discounts on bowling and mini evenings special prices on pizza loners and will soon present movies at the John Elliott Theatre in Georgetown Students need only wear their CHICKEN shirts to get discounts said Mr Booth So why the emphasis on such young children for drug abuse Is where we ve found the drug problem starts said Mr Booth He added that activities pro vided by CHICKEN membership enhance the young people leisure time Membership for the CHICKEN club is and that doesnt even cover the cost of the shirts but It a membership students can wear proudly We started here with three schools said Mr Booth Today there are over kids In Hills who dan mind being called CHICKEN when it cornea to 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