1. Harms and cost of alcohol in the NT Steven Skov Public Health Physician, Dept Health and Families With thanks to: Tanya Chikritzhs, Stephen Jackson, Joe Yick, Alex Knowler, Richard Mu, Toni Makkai, Shu Qin Li, Sabine Pircher & Steve Whetton

2. Alcohol Consumption: NT vs rest of the world (litres pure alcohol per person over age 14) Australia and NT 2004/05 Australia 10.29 Total NT: 15.3 Aboriginal 17.1 Non Aboriginal 14.7 Other Countries 2003 Luxembourg (1 st ) 15.56 Ireland (2 nd ) 13.69 Australia (30 th ) 9.02 Based on: Gray D and Chikritzhs T. (2000) Regional variation in alcohol consumption in the Northern Territory. Aust NZ J Pub Health; 24(1): 35-38. World Health Organisation Statistical Information System (WHOSIS) 2008. www.who.int/whosis/whostat/2008/en/index.htmln/i ndex.htmln/i ndex.html

3. Apparent per capita consumption of pure alcohol: Australia and NT

4. NT Apparent per capita consumption

5. Alcohol attributable deaths in the NT 2004/05 120 deaths caused, 25 prevented Age stand ’ d death rate /10,000 popn NT All 7.2 NT non Aboriginal 3.8 NT Aboriginal 18.6 Australia 1.9

6. Age standardised alcohol attributable death rates: All NT Indigenous All Non-Indigenous

7. Age standardised alcohol attributable death rates: Top End Indigenous All Non-Indigenous

8. Age standardised alcohol attributable death rates: Central Australia Indigenous All Non-Indigenous

9. Alcohol attributable hospitalisations in the NT 2004/05 2,319 caused, 284 prevented Age stand ’ d rate/10,000 popn (caused) All NT: 146.6 NT non Aboriginal 63.1 NT Aboriginal 412 Australia 62.2

10. Ambulance work: 20% of all transport jobs

11. Admissions to treatment programs for alcohol Rate per 100,000 popn > 14yrs 1406 14381363 1804

12. Taken off the streets for drunkenness 07/08: 54,000 or 147 people per day

13. Police workload 2007/08 216,904 “ jobs ” 91,054 where alcohol status recorded 53,477 (58.7%) alcohol related At least 146 alcohol related jobs per day perhaps as many as 349

14. Victims of assaults: alcohol relatedeness 04/05/06 All assaults 81% all 86% Aboriginal 72% non Aboriginal Domestic Violence 83.5% all 86% Aboriginal 72% non Aboriginal Of cases where alcohol relatedness was recorded (only in 69% of cases)

15. NT alcohol related economic costs 2004/05 Tangible costs $405.9m Intangible costs $235.9m Total costs $641.8m

16. Cost comparison Collins and Lapsley Australia 2004/05 $15.3 billion Cost per person ~ $934* NT total cost $641.8m Cost per person ~ $4,197* * Persons age over 14 years