
Titre : | Drug and Alcohol Review, Vol.26 n°4. - 2007 |
Type de document : | Bulletin |
Paru le : | 01/01/2007 |
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Despite evidence for their effectiveness, harm reduction services such as needle and syringe programmes (NSPs) are highly vulnerable to perceptions of community disapproval. This paper reviews Australian research on community attitud[...]

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While harm reduction advocates, policy makers and practitioners have a right to be proud of the impact of interventions such as needle and syringe programmes on HIV risk, we can be less sanguine about the ongoing high levels of HCV t[...]

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INTRODUCTION AND AIMS: The aim of this study was to examine trends in HIV and related risk behaviours in drug users in Bangladesh, the effects of prevention and harm reduction initiatives that have already been undertaken and to high[...]

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School drug education is seen by governments as an ideal prevention strategy because it offers the potential to stop use by the next generation. Australian schools expanded drug education substantially during the 1960s in response to[...]

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C. L. PAUL ;
TZELEPIS F. ;
R. A. WALSH ;
R. TURNER
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INTRODUCTION AND AIMS: Increased access for smokers to pharmacotherapies for smoking cessation suggests that pharmacists have a potential role in influencing how these pharmacotherapies are used in the community. This study aimed to [...]

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The objective of this study was to determine the level of immunity from Hepatitis B infection in an Australian population of drug and alcohol users, and the validity of self-reported immune status. A cross-sectional survey was employ[...]

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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[...]

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INTRODUCTION AND AIMS: The aim of this study was to compare the mortality associated with oral naltrexone, methadone and buprenorphine in opioid dependence treatment, employing a retrospective data analysis using coronial and prescri[...]

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The main aim of this study was to examine the role of illicit drug use before the age of 18 years in developing a criminal career. The study included 7577 18-year-old men conscripted for military service in Stockholm County in 1969/1[...]

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Diversion strategies aim to redirect drug-involved offenders away from the criminal justice system and into treatment. Despite the interest in diversionary practices, the emergence of an empirical evaluation literature has been slow. A methodolo[...]

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INTRODUCTION AND AIMS: The aim of this study was to develop a comprehensive annotated public-domain bibliography of the literature on spirituality and addictions to facilitate future research and scholarship. DESIGN AND METHODS: A se[...]

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ISSUES: Evidence-based policy is promoted as the ideal in drug policy, yet public policy theorists suggest that policy-based evidence may be a more fitting analogy, where evidence is used selectively to support a predetermined policy[...]

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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[...]