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Auteur A. RITTER |
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During the past decade, 'alcohol's harm to others' (AHTO) has emerged as an international approach to studying alcohol problems and informing policy. The AHTO approach seeks to increase political will for alcohol policy by mapping, measuring and[...]Article : Périodique
V. BELACKOVA ; A. RITTER ; M. SHANAHAN ; C. E. HUGHES |Background: Variations in drug laws, as well as variations in enforcement practice, exist across jurisdictions. This study explored the feasibility of categorising drug laws "on the books" in terms of their punitiveness, and the extent of their [...]NouveautéPériodique
FRANÇAIS : La buprénorphine haut dosage (Subutex°) est désormais mise sur le marché australien et agréée comme médication de substitution pour le traitement des dépendances aux opiacés. Les formes galéniques sont les mêmes qu'en France : compr[...]Article : Périodique
A. RITTER ; M. LIVINGSTON ; J. CHALMERS ; L. BERENDS ; P. REUTER |Background: A central policy research question concerns the extent to which specific policies produce certain effects - and cross-national (or between state/province) comparisons appear to be an ideal way to answer such a question. This paper ex[...]Article : Périodique
Cost-benefit analysis (CBA), with its foundation in social welfare theory, is widely used to assess programs in a range of policy areas. Many CBAs are conducted by simply quantifying the implementation costs and valuing one or more of the potent[...]Article : Périodique
AIMS: To date there has been limited analysis of the economic costs and benefits associated with cannabis legalisation. This study redresses this gap. A cost benefit analysis of two cannabis policy options the status quo (where cannabis use is i[...]Article : Périodique
C. WILKINS, Auteur ; A. RITTER, Auteur du commentaire ; L. VON DIEMEN, Auteur du commentaire ; S. ROLLES, Auteur du commentaire ; D. KUSHLICK, Auteur du commentaire ; A. L. BRETTEVILLE-JENSEN, Auteur du commentaire ; B. HUGHES, Auteur du commentaire ; P. GRIFFITHS, Auteur du commentaire |Background: New Zealand has recently attempted to address the underlying drivers of the escalating new psychoactive substances (NPS) ('legal highs') problem by establishing the world's first pre-market approval regulatory regime for NPS. NPS pro[...]Article : Périodique
K. O'REILLY ; M. KOWALSKI ; M. J. BARRATT ; A. RITTER |The ability to fairly and justly distinguish between drug possession for personal use and drug possession for supply is a central feature of drug laws across the globe. Whether such distinctions pertain to decriminalisation of simple possession,[...]Article : Périodique
V. BELACKOVA ; A. M. SALMON ; C. A. DAY ; A. RITTER ; M. SHANAHAN ; D. HEDRICH ; T. KERR ; M. JAUNCEY |ISSUES: Drug consumptions rooms (DCR) and supervised injecting facilities (SIF) are expanding internationally. Previous reviews have not systematically addressed evaluation methodologies. APPROACH: Results from systematic searches of scientific [...]Article : Périodique
C. E. HUGHES ; A. RITTER ; N. MABBITT |Background: Coordination has been recognised as a critical ingredient for successful drug policy governance. Yet what coordination means and how we assess the processes, outputs and outcomes of drug policy coordination is seldom defined. In this[...]Livre
M. HAMILTON ; T. KING ; A. RITTER ; S. ALBERTI ; L. BERENDS ; Y. BONOMO ; CVETKOVSKI S. ; P. DIETZE ; DONATH S. ; GARDINER P. ; M. KEENAN ; KELLEHEAR A. ; KUTIN J. J. ; E. LANG ; LASLETT A. M. ; N. LEE ; N. LINTZERIS ; OTMAR R. ; M. PATTERSON ; RUMBOLD G. ; P. SPRY-BAILEY ; G. WHELAN | Oxford - New York : Oxford University Press | 2004ENGLISH : Drug Use in Australia describes policy, prevention and treatment responses to drug use, and details the social and political implications of these approaches. Key sociological, historical and psychological theories are described, wit[...]Article : Périodique
A. RITTER ; G. BAMMER ; M. HAMILTON ; L. MAZEROLLE ; DPMP Team |ENGLISH : The aim of this paper is to describe a new comprehensive approach to studying illicit drug policy - one that integrates evidence, disciplinary approaches, drug use behaviours and policy making processes. The methods described here in[...]Article : Périodique
Aims: This study aimed to investigate whether there is heterogeneity of opinion about drug policies amongst people with different experiences of drug use, so as to stimulate discussion about how the diverse perspectives of people who use drugs c[...]Périodique
S. DARKE ; J. ROSS ; M. TEESSON ; R. ALI ; R. COOKE ; A. RITTER ; M. LYNSKEY | 2005ENGLISH : Aims: To determine the role of treatment and client characteristics associated with the achievement of continuous heroin abstinence. Design: Longitudinal cohort study. Setting: Sydney and Adelaide, Australia. Participants: 570 heroin[...]Article : Périodique
S. R. FRIEDMAN, Auteur ; P. MATEU-GELABERT, Auteur ; D. ROSSI, Auteur ; A. RITTER, Auteur du commentaire ; A. FORDHAM, Auteur du commentaire ; R. CURTIS, Auteur du commentaire ; K. DOMBROWSKI, Auteur du commentaire |Discussions of drug policy tend not to consider whether the stated goals of policies are an accurate statement of what they are meant to do and also may not consider the fact that what benefits some people may harm others. We explore these issue[...]Article : Périodique
N. SCOTT ; J. P. CAULKINS ; A. RITTER ; C. QUINN ; P. DIETZE |Aims: Methamphetamine-related harms in Victoria have increased recently in the context of stable or declining use prevalence. We determine how changes in price and purity of methamphetamine compared to other drugs such as heroin may, in part, ex[...]Article : Périodique
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N. LINTZERIS ; A. RITTER ; PANJARI M. ; N. CLARK ; KUTIN J. ; G. BAMMER |Buprenorphine was registered in Australia as a maintenance and detoxification agent for the management of opioid dependence in November, 2000, and became widely available in August 2001. This paper provides an overview of key developments in the[...]Article : Périodique
A. RITTER ; R. MELLOR ; J. CHALMERS ; M. SUNDERLAND ; K. LANCASTER |ENGLISH: OBJECTIVE: Estimates of the extent of treatment need (defined by the presence of a diagnosis for which there is an effective treatment available) and treatment demand (defined as treatment seeking) are essential parts of effective trea[...]Bulletin : Périodique
International Journal of Drug Policy, Vol.41 - March 2017 - Law enforcement in drug policy: a special section with the ISSDP
A. RITTER, Éditeur scientifique ; A. STEVENS, Éditeur scientifique | 2017Article : Périodique
A. MADDEN ; K. LANCASTER ; A. RITTER ; C. TRELOAR |Background: The importance of engaging people who use drugs in drug policy development is increasingly acknowledged including in recent UN documents. Little scholarly attention has been paid to 'drug user representation' in the global drug polic[...]Article : Périodique
Background: Assessing the extent to which drug research influences and impacts upon policy decision-making needs to go beyond bibliometric analysis of academic citations. Policy makers do not necessarily access the academic literature, and polic[...]Périodique
N. LINTZERIS ; LENNE M. ; A. RITTER | 1999FRANÇAIS : Objectifs: l'injection du sirop de méthadone prévu pour une consommation orale est potentiellement associée à une morbidité et une mortalité accrues. Les rapports faits pour Sydney, en Australie, ont révélé une prévalence élevée d'in[...]Article : Périodique
K. LANCASTER ; A. RITTER ; K. VALENTINE ; T. RHODES |The idea of identifying and monitoring urinary excretion of illicit drugs and their metabolites in wastewater has been seen by governments and international organisations as 'promising'. It is claimed that such approaches will enable governments[...]Article : Périodique
M. SHANAHAN ; K. GERARD ; A. RITTER |Background: Policy choices for illicit drugs such as cannabis entail consideration of competing factors such as individual health, societal views about pleasure, and criminal justice impacts. Society must weigh up these factors in determining th[...]Article : Périodique
Introduction: Policy should be informed by the people it directly affects; however, the voices of people who use illicit drugs have been marginalised from drug policy debate. In Australia, the majority of survey data regarding attitudes to drug [...]Périodique
T. TUCKER ; A. RITTER ; C. MAHER ; H. JACKSON | 2004ENGLISH : This study evaluated the additional effectiveness of a 12-week manualized group counseling program over a structured naltrexone treatment program. The randomized controlled trial, the first of its kind in Australia, was conducted at [...]Périodique
T. TUCKER ; C. L. FRY ; N. LINTZERIS ; S. BALDWIN ; A. RITTER ; DONATH S. ; G. WHELAN | 2004ENGLISH : Aim : To develop and evaluate a brief intervention for reducing risk behaviours associated with HCV transmission in injecting drug users (IDU). Design : Randomized controlled trial of an individually tailored brief behavioural interv[...]Article : Périodique
INTRODUCTION AND AIMS: The news media is often touted as an important, yet inaccurate source of information about drug issues for the general public. This paper investigates the accuracy of reporting in the Australian media regarding the value o[...]Rapport
F. MATTHEW-SIMMONS ; S. LOVE ; A. RITTER | Sydney : NDARC (National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre) | Drug Policy Modelling Program Monograph Series | 2008Public opinion can be an important determinant of social policy - governments are more likely to pursue policy options when they perceive public opinion to be supportive. In the illicit drugs area public opinion may be a more important factor in[...]Article : Périodique
Harm reduction is both a policy approach and used to describe a specific set of interventions. These interventions aim to reduce the harms associated with drug use. Employing a strict definition of harm reduction, evidence for the efficacy and e[...]Périodique
Serious adverse events in the Australian National Evaluation of Pharmacotherapies for Opioid (NEPOD)
E. DIGIUSTO ; A. SHAKESHAFT ; A. RITTER ; S. O'BRIEN ; R. P. MATTICK ; NEPOD RESEARCH GROUP | 2004ENGLISH : Aims : The study estimated serious adverse event (SAE) rates among entrants to pharmacotherapies for opioid dependence, during treatment and after leaving treatment. Design : A longitudinal study based on data from 12 trials included[...]Article : Périodique
BACKGROUND: This paper examined the implications of the business cycle for cannabis and alcohol use. What little we know about cannabis use suggests that young Americans (teenagers and adults in their early 20s) seem more inclined to use illicit[...]Article : Périodique
ENGLISH : INTRODUCTION AND AIMS: This study compares the costs and consequences of three interventions for reducing heroin dependency: pharmacotherapy maintenance, residential rehabilitation and prison. DESIGN AND METHODS: Using Australian dat[...]Article : Périodique
Background: Australian and international street-level drug law enforcement deploy many strategies in efforts to prevent or deter illicit drug offending. Limited evidence of deterrence exists. This study assessed the likely impacts of four Austra[...]NouveautéArticle : Périodique
ENGLISH : INTRODUCTION AND AIMS: The introduction of buprenorphine - naloxone in Australia in April 2006 has permitted the revision of takeaway policies in many states and has introduced the possibility of unsupervised treatment. This study ex[...]Bulletin : Périodique
Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, Vol.20, n°3 - June 2013 - The use of evidence in policy making
A. STEVENS, Éditeur scientifique ; A. RITTER, Éditeur scientifique | 2013