The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) has the latest National Drug Strategy Household Survey (NDSHS) findings, showing trends in the use of alcohol, smoking and illicit drugs in Australia in 2016.
Key findings include that alcohol is being consumed less frequently, with more people drinking less often than weekly, smoking is sill declining with more people never taking up smoking and a very high percentage (98%) of teenagers having never smoked, and methamphetamines being the drug of most concern to the community and the drug most likely to be associated with a ‘drug problem’, with ‘ice’ the most commonly used form.