The Effects Of Alcohol Related Incidents On Children

Alcohol is the most abused licit psychoactive drugs that affect one 's ability to think rationally and distorts their judgement if consumed excessively. Alcohol addiction is an illness arising from prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks. An alcoholic is a person suffering from alcohol addiction. Prolonged excessive use of large quantities can eventually lead to chronic health diseases like cirrhosis of the liver, anaemia, cardiovascular disease, dementia, depression seizures, gout and alcohol related accidents and crime. Statistics show that 9 million people in England drink more than the recommended daily intake while an estimated 8.697 died of alcohol-related deaths in 2014. According to the WHO worldwide alcohol causes 1.8 million deaths (3.2% of total) and 58.3 million (4% of total) of Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs). Alcohol beverages with varied percentage content are consumed globally during religious, social, cultural events, festivals and other occasions. The use of alcoholic beverages has been an integral part of many cultures for thousands of years (McGovern, 2009). Over the centuries, there have been ongoing measures, research, interventions and policies which are aimed at promoting the moderate use of alcohol with a particular emphasis on preventing or reducing undesired outcomes. This essay will outline the key components of brief interventions in alcohol, the difference in approach with traditional methods of treatment and in conclusion, the

Elasticity of demand is the relationship between the demands for a product with respect to its price. Generally, when the demand for a product is high, the price of the product decreases. When demand decreases, prices tend to climb. Products that exhibit the characteristics of elasticity of demand are usually cars, appliances and other luxury items. Items such as clothing, medicine and food are considered to be necessities. Essential items usually possess inelasticity of demand. When this occurs prices do not change significantly.

In Australia and throughout other western countries, the misuse of alcohol by young people has been highlighted as a problem (Toumbourou et al 2003).

Evidence and research proves that the laws related to the legal drinking age does not reflect today’s societal values and that the legislations ‘Liquor Act 2007 No 90 (NSW) Part 7 Division 1 Sections 117 & 116’ should be reformed to raise the drinking age in Australia from 18 years of age to 21. Through surveying different age groups and socio-economic backgrounds of society, information has been gathered to demonstrate that the current laws do not reflect society’s opinion on the legal drinking age in Australia. Research suggests that there are many social consequences related to alcohol in young people including alcohol fuelled violence and major health issues. Despite evidence from leading health experts,

For example, the tax incidences will change based on both the elasticity of demand and supply. The consumer has to

Australia is known for its cultural consumption of alcohol, to levels such as binge drinking. The growing epidemic poses serious health risks to the affected populous as well as associations between violence, misdemeanours and binge drinking which are acts that are in violation of the law and punishable by the law (Rush 2003, p4). Which effectively justifies the public’s growing concern.

Annually, about 4,300 people under age 21 die from injuries involving underage drinking. Where I stand on this argument is that adolescent drinking is on the rise and is fast becoming one of Australia’s biggest problems. This problem is easy to see and it’s hard not to notice with the amount of TV coverage and social media trends. The amount of surveys showing that drinking more and drinking younger is what teenagers are doing.

In today’s society, drinking alcohol has become the cultural norm. Since 1788, binge drinking has been a cultural problem in Australia, since then alcohol has being a fundamental aspect of Australian’s life (Scott, 2015). It is defined as the heavily consumption of alcohol, during short period of time with the intention of becoming intoxicated (Australia Drug Foundation, 2016). Despite, the improvement of Australian’s attitude towards alcohol, there still remains a significant pressure not just to drink but to drink excessively (Scott, 2015). In Australia more than $7 billon of alcohol-related tax is generated annually, becoming the most widely used drug (Australia Drug Foundation, 2016). According to the Australian Drug Foundation, 2016, binge

This essay will provide an outline of the effects of alcohol consumption on the health of the nation as well as investigate a range of health promotion strategies aimed to reduce the burden of this issue. Furthermore, this paper will explore two alcohol reductions measures. The first is the behavior change model of the Australian Government’s National Binge Drinking Strategy (NBDS) which has stimulated the reduction of alcohol consumption. It will also look at two rolled out campaigns launched by governments to reduce the high trends of alcohol consumption; ‘Danny Green’s Coward Punch’ and Don’t Turn a Night out into a Nightmare’. Alcohol is an issue because habitual and excessive alcohol consumption has countless damaging health outcomes

Theory of Elasticity is used to refer a ratio of change (seen graph 2.0). Alcohol is an elastic product – however due to the majority of its consumers being addicts – the users depend on this product and would easily switch to a substitute alcohol if prices were too high. This is what is happening today. This is why we are here to discuss an alternative solution.

Drugs and alcohol are widely used for a multitude of personal and recreational reasons, to an extent where their prevalence is normalizing and becoming more socially acceptable; especially in the youth demographic. Alcohol consumption in particular has cultivated within the Australian lifestyle to become standardized and intrinsic to the culture, often encouraged to youth as a ‘coming of age’ recreation. The social acceptancy and acceptancy of drug and alcohol issues within Australian teens has been a result of the acknowledgement of its wide and extremely common use to the point where prevention strategies will not succeed as well as support for current users will.

A government funded health promotion that targets youth alcohol consumption is the Parents, Young People and Alcohol ‘I see’ campaign run by Alcohol Think Again.

Alcohol is one of the biggest risk factors for disease burden among adolescents. Among young people aged 16 to 24 years, binge drinking and alcohol related harm is one of the leading causes of disease and injury. Therefore, it is important that preventative measures are taken to reduce the risk of young people binge drinking within Australia.

The government has many products which are imposed to indirect taxation, an example of this is inelastic, meaning fuel or alcohol. The price elasticity of demand is important for these products as it is able to determine how much tax producers can change on consumers as the prices rise. Companies/Firms are able to use PED in many ways, which enables them to decide the change of price effected by the total revenue of sales which then the price change that is likely caused by the supply changes.

Elasticity of demand represented as “Ed” is defined as a “measure of the response of a consumer to a change in price on the quantity demanded of a good” (McConnell, 2012). Determinants for elasticity of demand would include the substitutability of a good, proportion of a consumer 's income spent on a good, the nature of the necessity of a good and the time a purchase is under consideration by the consumer. Furthermore, elasticity of demand is calculated with this formula: