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Saturday, November 28, 2009

Media Release - ALCOHOL‐RELATED INJURIES FLOOD NSW EMERGENCY ROOMS


27th November 2009:

A new report released today by the Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation (AER), indicates one‐third of alcohol‐related admissions to public hospitals in a NSW Area Health Service (Sydney South West Area Health Service) were potentially lifethreatening, and a further 46.7% were considered potentially serious. 17% of the respondents stated they had been drinking in the six hours prior to their injury and 7.1% of these stated that their injury had been caused by another person. . . . . . .

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