DRUG STUDY: The 2011 Australian School Student Alcohol and Drug survey found 4.1 per cent of young people used amphetamine-type stimulants, including ecstasy, in 2011 - down from 6.8 per cent in 2008 and eight per cent in 2005. Source: HWT Image Library
ECSTASY use in WA children aged 12 to 17 years has halved since 2008, new research shows.
A survey of 3771 12 to 17-year-old students, randomly selected from schools across the State, found the proportion of ecstasy use had dropped from 4.3 per cent in 2008 to two per cent in 2011.
The research was released today by Mental Health Minister Helen Morton to coincide with the relaunch of the Drug Aware ecstasy prevention campaign.
The survey also found a drop in amphetamine-type stimulant use, however there was no change in the proportion of students reporting use of at least one illegal drug in 2011 compared to 2008.
The Drug Aware campaign is the first ecstasy-specific effort, costing $138,000 a year to run.
Mrs Morton said the campaign would continue at a time when summer music festivals were ramping up.
"It's online, in print media, on billboards, it's highly visual," she said.
Mrs Morton said the campaign proved that by giving students all of the information available, they were more likely to make a healthier decision.
"When you actually get into the websites and hear the factual information about brain damage and about the psychotic illnesses, the delusions the psychoses and the depression, that's what's cutting through to the kids," she said.
"It's obvious they will make those informed decisions if they've got factual information."
Research done by the ChemCentre at Curtin University had found when people were taking ecstasy, they were often swallowing a cocktail of drugs.
The ChemCentre found in ecstasy pills anti-depressents, sinus medications, over the counter pharmaceuticals, and other illegal substances including synthetic drugs.
Mental Health Minister Helen Morton welcomed the new data, but said with the musical festival season under way it was important to remind young people about the dangers of pills sold as ecstasy including the fluctuations in purity, toxic effects of the substances and the severe harm they could cause.
"The same survey showed ecstasy use in WA had declined from 4.3 per cent in 2008 to two per cent in 2011, which is more than half in three years,'' Ms Morton said.
"There has also been a recent slight increase in hospitalisations for amphetamine-type stimulant use, which will be monitored for significant changes.''
The state government has relaunched its Drug Aware prevention campaign targeting teenagers aged 15 to 17 years.
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