Booze & Pot – The Most Publicly Promoted Drugs Are Increasing Harms

Who knew? We all knew, but we continue to follow Big Alcohol and Big Cannabis narratives that have either coercively or seductively lead to concealment of growing harms, not least accidents beyond the road toll. Permission models always drive demand, and when that demand leads to mixing and increasing use of psychotropic toxins, you get more and more of this damage. #PublicHealthMatters #cannabisindustry #alcoholawareness

Prevalence of alcohol and other drug detections in non-transport injury events

Key findings

• AODs were detected in 37% of non-transport injury cases where AOD testing was completed. AOD detections were particularly common in cases of intentional self-harm (47%) and interpersonal violence (69%).
• Of tested patients, alcohol was the most commonly detected substance (25%), followed by cannabinoids (14%), benzodiazepines (13%), amphetamine-type substances (11%), opioids (4%) and cocaine (2%).
• Population-level surveillance of AOD-related injury events is needed to inform prevention approaches that address AOD use as a risk factor for all causes of injury.

(Source: Emergency Medicine Australia)

Also see 

• Ripple Effect – Chemsex, Violence, Road Toll, and the Growing Failure of Misused Drug Policy: Reducing or Increasing Harms?
• Motor vehicle accidents a leading cause of cannabis-related deaths