Alcohol-related damage hits $2b in B.C.

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Week — 33% higher than adults
in the rest of the country:
B North Shore residents spend
mare money and consume
more alcohol by volume than
of Burnaby and
Richmond; ,
B over 3400) admissions to
Lions Gate Hospital in the fis-
cal year 1989-90 were reported
to have a significant alcohol

problem,

Other studies, aihe 1990
acaton Conmission, the ]987
Jansen GCanimission, the 1987
Ryan Commission and
Honzons 19¥-f) conclude the
heatth consequences of sub
stance abuse are responsible
for:

5%: of drownings:

@ 70% of accidental poisen-
Ings,

60-80% of spinal cord

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#505. of all hospital emergen
CIS.

Additionally:
9 30° of domestic homicides
invalve aleohol;

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B 30%. of all inmates in BC
correctional mistiuiuensy are
there tor alcohol related
offences:

70 80% of males in the penal
svstent were either under the

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influence of alkohol ar the time
of the crime or aleohal was a
Significant factor,

@ approximately 40% of all
seriou crime as drug-related,
@ 1.800 Canadians were billed
in alcohol-related traffic acei-
dents in 1900;

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dents is the number one cause
of death for Canadian vouth;
B the protic from the sale of
alcohol in B.C. in 1990 was
$420 million;

B othe costs associated with
ateohal related damages in
B.C. in 1990 was approximate:

$2 billion.

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