Drowning involving alcohol and drugs: 2019/20 to 2023/24
November, 2024
Royal Life Saving - Australia
https://doi.org/10.62977/87209
- Royal Life Saving - Australia
Abstract
Alcohol consumption is known to impair our cognitive functions, influencing behaviour and risk-perception. The Australian water safety strategy identifies alcohol and drug consumption to be a major risk factor in drowning events, highlighting the need to understand more around the
characteristics of these behaviours. This brief report covers a 5-year period on all alcohol and
drugs present at the time of the drowning event, broken down by demographics, and whether the alcohol and/or drugs consumed were found to contribute to the drowning event.
