..and yet Psychiatric wards and group housing (mentally ill and intellectually disabled) the staff, nurses, carers all still use the almighty cigarette as a reward for good behaviour. The stats on these 2 groups for smoking would be disproportionate to the rest of the community I bet.
fee >Smoking is definitely going down in adults and in school kids too. Risky >drink also on the decline, although less dramatically. Cannabis use by >school kids definitely going down. Health promotion strategies >(including taxation of unhealthy products, restrictions on advertising, >sales and serving to minors, smoke-free areas, provision of quit and >help services as well as school-based and public education and >advertising campaigns) do work, but patience and persistence is necessary. > >We don't seem to have included any specific trends for IVDU - rather >hard to measure such trends reliably, but they can be inferred very >indirectly from other indicators. (which aren't shown in the report >either). There is a concern that the popularity of amphetamines is >driving IVDU up in some places, but not much data as yet. > >Tim C > >_______________________________________________ >Gpcg_talk mailing list >[email protected] >http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
