Don't bother with the video, there's very little information aside from the fact that in 2001, personal use of drugs was decriminalised and by 2009 they could see a drop in HIV infections, overdoses, and deaths.
In the late 90s the streets in certain cities were overflowing with addicts (as in walking corpses almost) and that is simply not the case anymore.
Found the following report.
https://www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au/images/resources/pdf/da...
Spot checked a few numbers against sources and they check out.
Quadrupling meth abuse is impressive.
I've yet to see any definitive numbers on any other number of other scenarios of speculative fiction.
Found the following report.
I'm curious what "sources" you spot checked against, given this report is from Australia's Dalgarno Institute. An institute that, quoting them:
"To shift the community and particularly adolescent, young adult and family attitudes about alcohol and other drugs away from the cultural expectation of participation, to consider the option of ‘not having to’.
— via https://www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au/about-us/the-mission.ht...
Cool cool, super cool. Abstinence it is then.
No surprise, given who Isabella Dalgarno was… http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/dalgarno-isabella-3353
Whoever Dalgarno is or was is irrelevant.
Appeasing drug addictions is a dead end.