More than two-thirds of Australian adults have been adversely affected by someone else’s alcohol consumption,
costing the country an estimated $20 billion a year in emergency healthcare, caring and lost productivity.
Dr Jason Jiang, from La Trobe University’s Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, said the study revealed “the burden to others from drinking is of the same general magnitude as the burden that drinkers impose on themselves and on response agencies serving them”. “We focus on the person who’s sick and then what happens to all the people that have put up with it for 15 or 20 years?” she said.Macdougall and her ex-husband, whom thehas decided not to name for privacy reasons, first met in rehab 40 years ago. She stayed sober, while he relapsed.
“I’ve just celebrated his 16 years of sobriety,” Macdougall said. “And he’s also got a really good relationship with his children.”, used a survey of 2649 adults and data from government agencies to quantify the cost of alcohol harm to bystanders, including in terms of healthcare, social services, criminal justice, productivity losses and quality of life.
The study used Australian Bureau of Statistics and state crime agency data showing more than 154,000 alcohol-related violent crimes and tens of thousands of other domestic violence and sexual violence crimes to estimate that they caused $560 million in productivity and healthcare service losses.Individuals spent $130 million on
The survey results indicated more than two-thirds of Australian adults have been adversely affected by someone else’s drinking and loss to their quality of life was valued at $7.99 billion.
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