The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) has released a new report, Alcohol and other drug treatment services in Australia 2015-16 on publicly funded treatment service agencies, the people they treat, and the treatment provided.
The report shows that nationally, alcohol was the drug most likely to lead to seeking treatment (32% of episodes), with amphetamines the second most common (23% of episodes). Comparatively, in Queensland cannabis was the drug of most concern (39% of episodes compared to 23% nationally).
Queensland clients received an average of 1.2 treatment episodes, lower than the national average of 1.5 episodes.
Nationally, the proportion of episodes where clients were receiving treatment for amphetamines has continued to rise over the 5 years to 2015-16, from 12% of treatment episodes in 2011-12 to 23% in 2015-16. In Queensland, the proportion of episodes involving amphetamines increased from 11% in 2011–12 to 17% in 2015–16.
Read the full report online or view the state and territory summaries.