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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Money tight for alcohol treatment


Jill Stark
February 13, 2008

TEN times more money was spent fighting illicit drug use than preventing alcohol abuse under the Howard government.

Alcohol kills three times more Australians than all illicit drugs, but new figures reveal that only $1.2 million was dedicated to harmful drinking in 2005-06 — compared to almost $11 million for other drugs.
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