In the last 12 months, Australians had more emergency medical treatment for alcohol consumption than residents of any other country.

We also got drunk an average of 47 times, or approximately once every eight days.

That’s according to data from the 2019 Global Drug Survey (GDS), which covers the drug consumption of more than 120,000 people from over 30 countries, including 7684 Australians who took part this year.

Here’s how we rank.

Australians the fourth biggest drinkers

Maybe this comes as no surprise, but we ranked pretty high for alcohol consumption.

We were the fourth biggest drinkers behind the UK, US and Canada.

Women were more likely to receive emergency medical treatment for alcohol than men, and 39.1 per cent of Australians said they wanted to drink less next year.

Alcohol, cannabis, tobacco and MDMA were the highest ranking drugs used in the last 12 months.

Source: https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/global-drug-survey-how-australia-ranks/11108690