Life Education is committed to giving children the best opportunity to live a safe life, free from the harmful effects of drugs. Here’s why we need your help to do it:

Every 24 minutes an Australian dies through either legal or illegal drugs – that’s over 22,000 deaths every year

By age 15, almost one third of teenagers are binge drinking

Teenagers who start drinking before age 15 are FIVE TIMES more likely to become dependent on it than those who don’t start until age 21 (Drug Info Clearinghouse)

Road accidents caused through alcohol, costs Australia $3.1 billion a year (Dept of Health and Ageing)

Alcohol abuse causes $3.5 billion worth of lost productivity per year (Dept of Health and Ageing)

80% of smokers start as children or adolescents (Soulos and Sanders, ASH)

In 2002, it was estimated that 205,000 boys and girls aged 12-17 were smokers. If they continued, 103,000 of them would end up dying from a smoking related disease. (QUIT)

Nearly one in three teenagers has taken an illicit drug at some time

In the last year, half a million Australians used methamphetamines or “ice”. (Australian National Council on Drugs)

Ecstasy and methamphetamine use has more than doubled since 1995

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