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Friday, January 2, 2009

Binge culture curses 'lost generation'

Erik Jensen
January 3, 2009

A GENERATION of Australian teenagers has been lost to binge drinking and will not be reached by the Federal Government's anti-drinking campaign, one of Australia's leading drug educators warns.

The director of Drug and Alcohol Research and Training Australia, Paul Dillon, said the $53 million national binge-drinking strategy was having little effect on a generation of young drinkers habitually misusing alcohol.
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