This volume provides a background to three key, underlying public health issues facing remote
communities: Alcohol and Other Drugs, Environmental Health and Food and Nutrition. It includes
facts, issues and approaches in the three areas. It will be useful in gaining an overall understanding of
their impacts on health and what you can do about them. Each chapter includes a list of contact phone
numbers in each of the program areas. This is the first edition of volume 2 of the Bush Book superseded by the 2nd edition in 2002 and the 3rd edition in 2005