Addiction Statistics in South Africa

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2005

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I’m sure that after seeing these documents, you will agree that the amount of statistical information available in South Africa is shocking. Professor Charles Parry from the Medical Research Council agrees that South Africa’s perception of addiction needs to change radically to include sex, pornography, pharmaceuticals, gambling, other behaviours, cigarettes and alcohol. The group consciousness of the country is blissfully unaware of the massive epidemic of addiction in S.A. He agreed that there were literally millions more people living with undiagnosed addictions than there were people living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa today.

SA DHS Alcohol 2005

The First Youth Risk Behaviour Survey

Stress and Health Study

Do you have legitimate research statistics available? Please contact us at
info @ aacorg.co.za and help The Addiction Action Campaign cause.

 

Latest facts

August 2008

Action for a Safe South Africa held a conference at Vodaworld in Midrand from the 25th to the 28th of August 2008. Sober S.A. hosted specialist workshop groups to discuss the way forward for an alcohol safe South Africa. These were the documents that were generated by the workshops.

Report_of_Sober_SA_work_group_report_Final.pdf

Tabular_record_of_Sober_SA_action_steps.pdf

Working_group_6_A_Sober_South_Africa_attendees.pdf

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Download all 3 of these documents compressed in a single .zip file here

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Download all 3 of these documents compressed in a single .rar file here

Do you have legitimate research statistics available? Please contact us at
info @ aacorg.co.za and help The Addiction Action Campaign cause.

 

October 2008

Tabular_record_of_Sober_SA_action_steps_updated.pdf

Do you have legitimate research statistics available? Please contact us at
info @ aacorg.co.za and help The Addiction Action Campaign cause.



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