Lifestyle by Jackie Sinnerton
Premium Content The boozy mum culture is starting to wear thin, with women shunning cork-popping social circles in favour of a healthier life. The Queensland Network of Alcohol and Other Drug Agencies reports that sober curiosity is beginning to take hold. Data released last month by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare shows that the proportion of Queenslanders aged 30 to 39 who drank daily halved from 2001-19. The proportion who drank weekly dropped from 42 per cent to 38 per cent in the same period. The network s chief executive Rebecca Lang said: We are seeing the positive side of social media, where sober Facebook pages are popping up offering mums the chance to chat and enjoy social interaction without the need to consume alcohol at the same time.
By contrast, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare reports that the commonwealth only expends $3.6bn, with an increase of only 2.1% per annum. AIHW also notes that all governments only increased their spend by 1.5% per capita between 2014-15 and 2018-19 and that the proportion of total health expenditure spent on mental health actually decreased by 1.1%. It remains at 7.5%, and this is largely unchanged since 1992.
If we only see very limited new investments in this budget, then we must stop and ask âwhyâ? Common answers include stigma and structural discrimination. Others note the lack of simple âannounceablesâ. After all there is no simple âsocial vaccineâ. Governments are now working on new federal-state agreements and âwhole of governmentâ responses. So it is likely that real action is postponed (once again) till after the next election.
A protest against proposed reforms aimed at reducing youth crime in the Northern Territory is set to take place on Wednesday, as community leaders express grave concern over their detrimental impact on Indigenous youth.
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Students who have good relationships with their teachers are much more likely to finish high school and reap the life-long benefits of doing so, Macquarie University analysis of a decade-long survey has found.
A positive relationship with teachers means a student is more likely to complete year 12. Students who finish year 12 are also less likely to go to prison or face unemployment, more likely to go into tertiary education and tend to earn more than those who don’t finish. They also report better health outcomes.
Keeping track: Beginning in Year 10, the relationships that students have with their teachers have a powerful impact, Dr Burns’ analysis shows.
The Australian TGA approves key label updates to Buvidal® for treatment of opioid dependence
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LUND, Sweden, May 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Camurus AB (NASDAQ STO: CAMX) today announced that the Australian regulatory agency, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), has approved key label updates to Buvidal
® Weekly and Buvidal
The approval includes:
A new higher Buvidal Monthly 160 mg dose
Direct initiation onto Buvidal Weekly, removing the requirement to be stabilised on sublingual buprenorphine prior to commencing treatment with Buvidal
®
Changing the contraindications in pregnancy and lactation to precautions
In 2020 over 53,000 Australians received treatment for their opioid dependence, which represents a 4.7% increase on the previous year. This was the largest increase in treatment delivery in the past decade and has been attributed to the introduction of long-acting injectable buprenorphine treatment which has