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Friday, June 8, 2007

Youth on deadly drink trail



Jill Stark and Cameron Houston
June 9, 2007

THE number of young people being treated for alcohol-related brain damage has grown fivefold in the past decade, prompting calls for urgent action on teenage binge drinking.

At Victoria's only treatment agency for alcohol-related brain injuries, the proportion of its 16 to 25-year-old patients has risen from 4 per cent in 1997 to 20 per cent this year.

Staff at Arbias, which provides support to people with alcohol or substance-related brain damage, are treating about 600 young people annually in Melbourne, up from about 120 a decade ago.
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