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Date Time Growing concerns for Victorians seeking help for alcohol use A new survey by the Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association (VAADA) has found that 70% of alcohol and other drug (AOD) services reported more people are seeking help for alcohol use since the pandemic began in Australia. AOD services – which provide vital support to people experiencing harms associated with alcohol and other drugs – were asked if they had noticed an increase or decrease of alcohol as a drug of concern for clients, since March 2020. Between December 2020 and January 2021, VAADA surveyed 38 AOD service agencies across Victoria. The survey found 70% of Victorian services reported an increase in alcohol as a drug of concern for clients, including nearly a quarter of services who said alcohol featured ‘a lot more’. ....
In late 2019 I wrote an article about the growing problem of overdose deaths in Australia that has, sadly, continued to plague the country. In the most recent Penington Institute ‘overdose report’, we see that 2,070 people died from drug overdoses in 2018. That number has been growing and will continue to rise unless action is taken. And a greater proportion of overdose deaths are being caused by opioids, both prescription and non-prescription. The report shows that 1,556 of those deaths were identified as being unintentional. More recently, a report on drug trends released in April by the University of NSW’s National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre shows that the trend continued into 2019, with 1,865 overdose deaths, 61% of which were from opioids. ....
As Hannah s diazepam prescription rose, so did red flags in Victoria s addiction warning system MonMonday 12 updated Yesterday at 10:02pm MonMonday 12 Hannah was prescribed diazepam for almost a year after leaving an abusive relationship. ( Share Print text only Hannah couldn t sleep. She had recently left an abusive relationship and was raising her daughter on her own, so she reached out to her doctor for help. She was prescribed diazepam, a type of benzodiazepine, and it worked; the drug knocked her cold every night for a year. Hannah s doctor slowly upped the dose as her body adjusted. Her weight fell to 45 kilograms and her daughter had trouble recognising her, but Hannah had no idea she was dependent on the drug. ....