Introduction: Welcome to AODstats, the Victorian alcohol and drug interactive statistics and mapping webpage.
AODstats provides information on the harms related to alcohol, illicit and pharmaceutical drug use in Victoria.
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A major parliamentary inquiry into the health impacts of alcohol and other drugs in Australia has come down firmly on one side of a long running debate. Its recommendations put prevention over harm reduction as...
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Recommendations For National Drug Strategy 2027–2036: A Prevention & Recovery Framework (Building Safer, Healthier and more Resilient Communities)Australia stands at a crossroads. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s World DrugReport 2025 confirms what...
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The Australian Federal Police’s (AFP) record makes one point difficult to dismiss: illicit drug markets are not victimless lifestyle choices. They are a major revenue stream for transnational organised crime, impose serious social, as well...
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A new book argues that tobacco companies wrote the original addictive drug industry playbook. It claims the marijuana industry has quietly copied that playbook, strategy for strategy. The book is Marketing Pleasure: How Addictive Drug...
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Every alert issued by Australia’s drug early warning networks starts with the same uncomfortable fact. Someone has already taken a substance nobody could be certain about. New research published in the International Journal of Drug Policy examines...
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Drug checking services have quietly become one of the most accepted tools in how society now handles illegal drug use. A sample goes in. A result comes out. Somewhere in that exchange, a seller learns...
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A habit that millions of people consider harmless could be quietly raising the odds of a heart attack. A major new review, published in The American Journal of Medicine, has pulled together years of research...
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Overview Recent human evidence adds weight to longstanding concerns that cannabis use during pregnancy can interfere with foetal brain development in biologically meaningful ways. The 2026 study by Ugartemendia and colleagues links prenatal cannabis exposure...
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Australia ran the most successful anti-smoking campaign the world had ever seen. Not one of the most successful, the most successful. We reduced daily tobacco consumption from around 52 per cent of all Australians aged...
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INTRODUCTION: A Crisis Hiding In Plain Sight Two numbers define the scale of the problem. In the United States alone, more than 100,000 people die from opioid-related overdoses every year. Among 15-year-olds in England, 44...
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Australia ran the most successful anti-smoking campaign the world had ever seen. Not one of the most successful, the most successful. We reduced daily tobacco consumption from around 52 per cent of all Australians aged...
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Synthetic opioids are changing overdose statistics worldwide. Cannabis legalisation has shifted public views on risk, even as potency keeps climbing. Vaping has introduced a new generation to nicotine dependence, often through products that look harmless....
