In Australia in recent years the illicit drug market has increased steadily. It is unknown just how large the markets actually are, but there is no debate that it is profitable. According to Gong, W., Ritter, A., Bright, D., & Doran, C. (2012,p208) ,the Price of methamphetamines can range from 4 times to 20 times the original product cost price. Many people use Methamphetamines because of accessibility. This causes serious problems socially and economically. This essay will illustrate these problems and offer solutions to them. It will firstly focus on financial, health and crime issues. Then it will explain counterplans. Methamphetamine use causes economic and social impacts in Australia. Use of methamphetamine causes economic impact and social impact in Australia. Significant treatment cost of Methamphetamine is huge. According to Collins & Lapsley(as cited Ciketic, S., Hayatbakhsh, R., McKetin, R., Doran, C. M., & Najman, J. M. (2015,p421)).In 2004/2005 stimulant drug including amphetamine, methamphetamine and cocaine cost AUS 3.4 million as hospital expenses. This amount of money is serious that cannot be ignored as the money is should be used for disease people gain naturally. As a social problem citizens who use Methamphetamines suffer from many health …show more content…
One of these treatments is cognitive-behavioural therapy. This therapy is provided by trained workers to communicate with drug users to improve their health in order not to use drugs. This approach lets patients to avoid relationship with peers who use meth. For instance, they are engaged in healthy lifestyle activities such as workout, dance and surfing. Aside from that, medications are also suitable for drug users to help regain their mental status. It also works to ease withdrawal symptoms and physical or mental issues and thus, it aids decreasing desire to use drugs. New policy has been released to decrease the number of abusing medicines contain