Australia: Latest Injury and Hospitalisation Data Reveal Serious Alcohol Harm – Especially Among Men

the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has revealed the extent of alcohol harm in the country. The latest injury and hospitalisation show reveal a clear gender disparity in the risk to health and well-being, where men are more exposed to alcohol harm.
In recent years, alcohol-induced deaths have increased in Australia, reaching the highest level of the past decade. 
Underneath rising alcohol harm – especially in men – is also a troubling trend of rising alcohol use among teenage girls which increased by 134% compared to boys during the pandemic.