«Prevention requires education, adequate drug and alcohol services, support of initiatives such as community -
led alcohol restrictions, and enforcement of existing legislation, as well as measures to decrease access to alcohol including pricing, and restrictions on promotion and advertising of alcohol.
External business decisions around the supply of alcohol to Aboriginal communities have also contradicted community - led work which helped
impose alcohol restrictions to tackle the negative impacts of over-consumption, she said.
A significant portion of the community including local elders and community leadership supported and successfully lobbied
for alcohol restrictions.
Under legislation passed in August 2007, the government initiated a range of sweeping changes: health checks for all Aboriginal children;
widespread alcohol restrictions; reforms to welfare payments; an end to the CDEP scheme; scrapping of the permit system; increased policing; and acquiring townships under five - year leases.
Proper immune function requires a balanced approach:
alcohol restriction, adequate protein and sugar restriction are all key examples of basic, yet powerful, methods to optimize immune function and reduce the likelihood of recurrent skin infections.
Participants were also instructed in use of the sleep hygiene protocol that included (a)
alcohol restriction (no more than one drink per day and no alcohol 2 hr before bed - time), (b) caffeine restriction (no caffeine after 2:00 p.m.), (c) food intake restriction (no food after 7:00 p.m.), (d) screen time restriction (no television, Internet, computer, or tablet 1 hr before bedtime), and (e) no daytime naps longer than 30 min.
The graph shows that there is a correlation between the decline in alcohol consumption, which came about with the introduction of
the alcohol restrictions on October 1 2006 and hospital admission for Aboriginal women for assault.
This is a very objective indicator of a reduction of severe violence towards women as a result of
the alcohol restrictions.
I look at the success of community - led
alcohol restrictions, an innovative model of local governance and a project being undertaken by the community to address the impacts of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD).