Alcohol Treatment in Nova Scotia

All those alcohol treatments in Nova Scotia serve to treat those who are addicted to alcohol. Many of those people have already sought help and gotten it at these alcohol treatment centres. Many more people need professional care in order to get over their dependency to alcohol and they can find it in those treatment centres. There are in total almost 300 treatment centres, there are 292 to be exact. All those alcohol treatment centres are there to help people get over their alcohol addiction and live a saner life with alcohol.

Nova Scotia Alcohol Statistics

Nova Scotia is a small province in terms of the space it takes, but it is nonetheless a province where alcohol is present. In 2004, there was a study done on the population of Nova Scotia in order to find out the extent of the different addictions in the province. The study showed that almost 93 per cent of the population, 15 years and older, have drunk alcohol at least once in their lives. The survey also showed that 75.8 per cent of the people were current drinkers; there were only 7 per cent who were lifetime alcohol abstainers and 17 per cent were former drinkers.

Within the current drinkers, there are more males than females (80.5 per cent compared to 71.5 per cent). In the age bracket of 25 to 29 years old, there were 90.9 per cent of them who were current drinkers. There were 89.2 per cent in the 19 to 24 years old age bracket. There are also other characteristics which seem to influence the drinking of alcohol. People who have never been married have higher statistics for current drinkers than people who are or have been (82.6 per cent compared to 73.3 per cent). The average age at which one starts to drink alcohol for the first time is 18.5 years old. And soon people start drinking alcohol, with 72.5 per cent of the people drinking by the age of 19 years old. The average number of drinks per sitting in Nova Scotia is 3.3 drinks.

Heavy and Risky Drinking in Nova Scotia

A lot of people drink heavily in Nova Scotia. There were 6 per cent who admitted to doing heavy drinking at least once every week. There were also 20.8 per cent who said they drank heavily at least once each month. Men are twice if not three times more likely to drink heavily than women. The heavy drinking is also more present within the younger part of the Nova Scotia population. The weekly heavy drinking is very dangerous because it shows definite signs of alcoholism and can be very destructive for the person’s body.

There were 20.8 per cent of the people in Nova Scotia were said to be high-risk drinkers. And the study actually showed that 30.5 per cent of underage people are prone to being high risk drinkers. There are also 45.8 per cent of the younger, but not underage and 32.3 per cent of the adults are prone to it.