September 2016
WA becomes the first jurisdiction to release full (or at least reasonably full) bulletins from the 2014 ASSAD data. There is a 2014 ASSAD Alcohol Bulletin and a 2014 Illicit Drug Bulletin and both are well worth a read. The alcohol data once again shows a reduction in the number of students choosing to drink, with the research finding the lowest level of youth drinking in three decades – 9% of 12-17 year-olds reported never drinking in 1984 and in 2014 the number was 31.5%. Rates of illicit drug use were much lower as well, with only cannabis showing a slight increase in use since the 2011 survey.
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