N.Z. ’drug oriented'
N.Z. Press Association
WELLINGTON. I New Zealand was becoming a drug-oriented society, said the Minister of Health (Mr Tizard) in Parliament. The report of the Board of Health committee would be released soon, the Minister said, and he quoted figures given by a Health Department official in submissions to the board. The figures were based on surveys made in 1958 and 1971 into the prescribing habits of doctors. The surveys had found that in any 24-hour period in 1971, 56,000 people, about 2 per cent of the population, took a hypnotic drug prescribed by a doctor. A further 3.7 per cent took a tranquiliser. Of married, widowed, separated and divorced women, 4.9 per cent took a hypnotic, and 8.3 per cent took a tranquiliser. Mr Tizard said that the introduction of tranquilisers had not reduced the use of hypnotics. Drug dependency was one of the main problems faced by the Health Department, he said.
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33263, 28 June 1973, Page 12
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