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ENGLISH : The primary response to the harms associated with illicit injection drug use in most settings has involved intensifying law enforcement in an effort to limit the supply and use of drugs. Policing approaches have been increasingly app[...]Rapport
RIDOLFO B. ; C. STEVENSON | Canberra : Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) | Drug Statistics Series N°7 | 2001The aetiological fraction methodology and the associated fraction estimates enable estimation of the proportion of cases of an illness or injury that can be attributed to a risk factor. This report presents aetiological fraction estimates attrib[...]Périodique
G. K. HULSE ; D. R. ENGLISH ; E. MILNE ; C. D. J. HOLMAN | 1999FRANÇAIS : Cet article combine des données provenant d'un grand nombre d'études internationales, afin d'évaluer plus précisément la mortalité associée à l'usage illégal d'opiacés. Etant donné que la contamination VIH diffère énormément d'un pay[...]Article : Périodique
FRANÇAIS : Au cours des vingt dernières années, une prévalence croissante de la consommation de cannabis dans la population australienne a conduit à proposer la dépénalisation de l'usage personnel de cannabis. Trois états et territoires ont su[...]Article : Périodique
AIMS: Alcohol consumption among teenagers in many high-income countries has steadily declined since the early 2000s. There has also been a steady increase in the average age at first drink, a reliable marker of later alcohol problems. This study[...]Article : Périodique
Introduction and Aims. Despite the well-documented comorbidity between disordered alcohol use and problem gambling, little is known about the co-occurrence of drinking and gambling in gambling venues. This paper appears to be the first to invest[...]Article : Périodique
The present study assessed whether prior reinforcement experiences were related to gaming machine choice and the decision to change gaming machines during a session of gambling. Seventy undergraduate students (48 women, 22 men; mean age = 22.05 [...]Périodique
ENGLISH : Aims. To examine the relationship between attempted suicide and non-fatal heroin overdose among methadone maintenance patients. Design. Cross-sectional survey. Setting. Sydney, Australia. Participants. Two hundred and twenty-three me[...]Périodique
L. DEGENHARDT ; W. HALL | 2001ENGLISH : To examine comorbidity between tobacco use, substance-use disorders and mental health problems among Australian adults aged 18 years and over. Method: Data from the 1997 Australian National Survey of Mental Health and Well-being were[...]Article : Périodique
ENGLISH : While research demonstrates that parental tobacco and alcohol use increasesthe likelihood of childrens substance use, it is unclear whether or not sibling usehas a greater, weaker, or similar effect. Based upon self-reported informat[...]Article : Périodique
AIMS: To determine the reliability and validity of the Severity of Dependence Scale (SDS) for detecting cannabis dependence in a large sample of in-patients with a schizophrenia spectrum disorder. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. PARTICIPANTS:[...]Article : Périodique
L. BURNS ; A. ROXBURGH ; A. MATTHEWS ; R. BRUNO ; S. LENTON ; J. VAN BUSKIRK |New Psychoactive Substances are now a feature of Australia's recreational drug market. Little is known, however, about the prevalence of use, the characteristics of people who use them and the relationship between the NPS and ecstasy markets. Th[...]Périodique
A. WODAK ; SYMONDS A. ; R. RICHMOND | 2003In shooting galleries, drug users are able to illegally rent cubicles to inject drugs. Established in Kings Cross, Sydney in the early 1990s, police grudgingly tolerated several such galleries. In 1997, a royal commission recommended that a parl[...]Article : Périodique
The Australian Government intends to introduce plain tobacco packaging in 2012. We consider whether such a move appears justified by examining the wider marketing literature in order to understand the role that packaging has for consumer goods. [...]Article : Périodique
G. MARTIN ; J. COPELAND ; P. GATES ; S. GILMOUR |The Severity of Dependence Scale (SDS) is a five-item scale that has been reported to be a reliable and valid screening instrument for dependence and a measure of dependence severity in adults across several substance classes. To date no data ha[...]Article : Périodique
FRANÇAIS : L'échelle de gravité de la dépendance a été élaborée afin de fournir une échelle courte, simple à appliquer et pouvant servir à mesurer le degré de dépendance des consommateurs de différents types de produits. L'EGD comprend 5 items[...]Article : Périodique
FRANÇAIS : Ce document propose une méthodologie pratique pour étudier les différents impacts des programmes d'éducation sur la population, en utilisant l'exemple du programme Education pour la Vie dans les écoles de Victoria (Australie). Une r[...]Chapitre
Ces commissions représentent une alternative intéressante à la pénalisation des consommateurs. Elles ont pour objectif d'aider les toxicomanes plutôt que de les punir, en les dirigeant vers des centres de traitement. L'évaluation de ces commissi[...]Chapitre
D. C. DES JARLAIS ; K. CHOOPANYA ; P. MILLSON ; P. FRIEDMANN ; S. R. FRIEDMAN | London : UCL Press | 1998FRANÇAIS : S'appuyant sur les résultats de l'étude multi villes de l'OMS les auteurs examinent les connaissances actuelles sur la structure de l'épidémie VIH-1 chez les injecteurs de drogues. Deux villes à séroprévalence élevée sont étudiées e[...]Article : Périodique
The Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC) opened May 6 2001, and a number of government-funded evaluations released between 2003 and 2008 are examined. Findings of this analysis of the data are that the injecting centre, over its i[...]Périodique
J. KIMBER ; M. McDONALD ; I. VAN BEEK ; J. KALDOR ; D. WEATHERBURN ; H. LAPSLEY ; R. P. MATTICK | 2003ENGLISH : This paper describes characteristics of clients registered in the first 12 months of the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre's (MSIC) operation, as well as predictors of frequent attendance. The study is based on information[...]Périodique
I. VAN BEEK | 2003ENGLISH : The Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC) is the first supervised injecting facility (SIF) in Australia and the English-speaking world. It commenced operations in May 2001 as a trial to be independently evaluated. The M[...]Périodique
I. VAN BEEK ; J. KIMBER ; DAKIN A. ; S. GILMOUR | 2004FRANÇAIS : Le centre d'injection médicalement assisté de Sydney (MSIC) fait suite à l'essai tenté en 2001. Opérant sur un modèle médical, le premier objectif du centre est de réduire la morbidité et la mortalité associées aux overdoses. Le pers[...]Livre
This book is based on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork in the Antwerp club scene and repeated in-depth interviews with cocaine users. The overall theme of the book is the genesis and the development of informal control mechanisms (social sanc[...]Article : Périodique
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ENGLISH : Young injecting drug users are a particularly vulnerable group for Hepatitis C (HCV) infection. One method for minimising the risk of contraction of Hepatitis C for amphetamine users (not widely explored in the research to date) is t[...]Chapitre
Les grandes compagnies australiennes proposent des programmes de prévention, d'éducation et de traitement à leurs employés. Ces programmes ont un double intérêt : pour l'employeur, car la toxicomanie entraine une augmentation de l'absentéisme et[...]Article : Périodique
Background and aims: The feasibility of intervention in heroin overdose is of clinical importance. The presence of 6-monoacetyl morphine (6MAM) in the blood is suggestive of survival times of less than 20-30 minutes following heroin administrati[...]Périodique
FRANÇAIS : Les objectifs de l'étude sont de vérifier la prévalence et les modèles d'usage d'antidépresseurs chez les usagers de drogues par injection (UDI) à Sydney et déterminer tout danger associé à cet usage. Une enquête transversale a été m[...]Article : Périodique
The policy of Harm Reduction was adapted and implemented by the Australian health establishment in response to a rising epidemic of opiate use, dependency and death from overdose and fears of the spread of AIDs and Hepatitis C throughout the int[...]Article : Périodique
FRANÇAIS : Une méthodologie de recherche combinant des outils qualitatifs et quantitatifs a été utilisée pour évaluer l'usage d'amphétamines illicites et ses conséquences dommageables dans les régions urbaines et rurales d'Australie. La méthode[...]Périodique
L. BURNS ; R. P. MATTICK ; M. COOKE | 2006ENGLISH : Aims: To examine the obstetric and perinatal outcomes for women with a drug-related hospital admission during pregnancy. Design: Antenatal and birth admissions to New South Wales (NSW) hospitals from the NSW Inpatient Statistics Coll[...]Article : Périodique
Ecstasy (MDMA) has attracted widespread attention with its association as a "recreational substance" that is concentrated in club and rave settings. This paper outlines a phenomenologically grounded ethnographic study of the experiences of ecsta[...]Article : Périodique
ENGLISH : Background: Despite a significant literature examining the processes and outcomes of formal psychotherapeutic interventions, helping relationships outside of traditional psychotherapy settings have received less empirical attention. [...]Livre
Concept-based therapeutic communities emerged out of the informal group meetings of Charles Dederich and a number of former Alcoholics Anonymous members in California in the late 1950s. The model was exported worldwide and has not only become th[...]Article : Périodique
A. PENNAY ; J. TORRONEN ; M. D. HEROLD ; L. FENTON ; S. MACLEAN ; G. CALUZZI ; H. FAIRBROTHER ; V. A. FRANK ; E. SAMUELSSON ; J. HOLMES |Introduction: Significant declines in drinking among young people have been recorded in many high-income countries over the past 20 years. This analysis explored the role of gender - which we interpret as socially constructed and relational - to[...]Périodique
J. T. BYRNE ; H. BEDFORD ; K. P. RICHTER ; G. BAMMER | 2000FRANÇAIS : Un groupe de soutien aux usagers de produits illicites en collaboration avec une infirmière sociale a développé en Australie un programme novateur pour permettre un accès à la santé aux enfants de toxicomanes. Les auteurs dressent le[...]Périodique
ENGLISH : Where authorized access to needles and syringes from exchanges and pharmacies is limited, secondary exchange (SE) can provide an important source of sterile injecting equipment. Interventions can be developed to use SE to facilitate [...]Article : Périodique
M. A. WAKEFIELD ; K. COOMBER ; S. J. DURKIN ; M. SCOLLO ; M. BAYLY ; M. J. SPITTAL ; J. A. SIMPSON ; D. HILL |FRANÇAIS : Objectif : Déterminer l'impact des politiques de lutte contre le tabagisme et des campagnes médiatiques sur la prévalence du tabagisme chez les adultes en Australie. Méthodes : Les données de calcul de la prévalence mensuelle moyenn[...]Article : Périodique
M. SIAHPUSH ; R. BORLAND ; H. H. YONG ; K. M. CUMMINGS ; G. T. FONG |Introduction and Aims. While higher tobacco prices lead to a reduction in smoking prevalence, there is a concern that paying more for cigarettes can lead to excess financial burden. Our primary aim was to examine the association of daily cigaret[...]Article : Périodique
Contexte : La consommation de tabac fait plus de morts à travers le monde que toute autre cause de décès évitable. Le meilleur moyen de réduire le tabagisme consiste à empêcher les gens de consommer du tabac et à encourager et aider les fumeurs [...]Article : Périodique
In December 2012, Australia became the first country to require all tobacco products be sold solely in standardised or 'plain' packaging, bereft of the manufacturers’ trademarked branding and colours, although retaining large graphic and text he[...]Article : Périodique
AIMS: The expected release of the DSM-V in 2012 has renewed the longstanding debate around whether alcohol use disorders are best conceptualized as dimensional or categorical constructs. The current study aimed to validate the current diagnostic[...]Article : Périodique
E. DILKES-FRAYNE ; Complexity: Researching alcohol and other drugs in a multiple world (August 21-23, 2013; Aarhus, Denmark) |In this article I propose that current research addressing the mediating role of "context" in youth illicit drug use can be complemented by examining drug use "events." Events analyses capture the temporality, dynamism, and multiplicity often la[...]Article : Périodique
C. E. HUGHES ; A. RITTER ; N. COWDERY ; N. SINDICICH |Introduction and Aims. Legal thresholds for drug trafficking, over which possession of an illicit drug is deemed 'trafficking' as opposed to 'personal use', are employed in all Australian states and territories excepting Queensland. In this pape[...]Article : Périodique
ENGLISH : Coincident with recognition of the effective role methadone maintenance can play in reducing opioid related harm, there has been an increase in the number of clients registered on methadone programs. In Australia, this has been accom[...]Périodique
N. LINTZERIS ; A. RITTER ; A. DUNLOP ; MUHLEISEN P. | 2002ENGLISH : This paper describes the development and implementation of training programs for primary care medical practitioners and pharmacists in the delivery of buprenorphine and LAAM treatment in the management of opiate dependence. Separate [...]Article : Périodique
M. TEESSON ; C. MAREL ; S. DARKE ; J. ROSS ; T. SLADE ; L. BURNS ; M. LYNSKEY ; S. MEMEDOVIC ; J. WHITE ; K. L. MILLS |Aims: To identify trajectories of heroin use in Australia, predictors of trajectory group membership and subsequent outcomes among people with heroin dependence over 10-11 years. Design: Longitudinal cohort study. Setting: Sydney, Australia. [...]Article : Périodique
N. LINTZERIS ; L. A. MONDS ; C. RIVAS ; S. LEUNG ; A. DUNLOP ; D. NEWCOMBE ; C. WALTERS ; S. GALEA ; N. WHITE ; M. MONTEBELLO ; A. DEMIRKOL ; N. SWANSON ; R. ALI |INTRODUCTION AND AIMS: Transfer from methadone to buprenorphine is problematic for many opioid-dependent patients, with limited documented evidence or practical clinical guidance, particularly for the range of methadone doses routinely prescribe[...]Article : Périodique
There is a scant amount of research investigating injecting drug use among people not selected on the basis of their injecting behaviour, and less attention has been given to stimulant users who may have a different experience with injecting dru[...]