Reduce Teenage Drinking In Australia

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Lastly how can we reduce teen drinking, and how can we reduce the drinking culture? Because right now the drinking culture is terrible, especially with teen drinking. What is the Australian government doing about it? Well, the Australian Government is enforcing a plan called the National Binge Drinking Strategy (NBDS). The whole idea for the NBDS is to come up with plans to fix Australia’s harmful drinking habits, especially with young people (The Department of Health, 2016). Their plan raises the attention of the consequences that can affect young peoples lifestyle both short and long term. One of the plans that the NBDS has come up with is to “develop sensible sports activities, which prompts the to native sporting clubs around Australia

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