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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[...]Article : Périodique
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La relation entre politique et recherche est complexe et le manque de définition de la toxicomanie (légal ou médical ?) rend la mise en place d'un programme à la méthadone plus difficile. Un travail important reste à faire pour les chercheurs : [...]Article : Périodique
A. ROXBURGH ; B. SAM ; P. KRIIKKU ; J. MOUNTENEY ; A. CASTANERA ; M. DIAS ; I. GIRAUDON |AIMS: To determine trends in 3,4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)-related death rates across Australia, Finland, Portugal and Turkey and to analyse the toxicology and causes of death across countries. DESIGN: Analysis of MDMA-related deaths[...]Article : Périodique
Background and Aims: Recent evidence suggests that there has been a sharp increase in non-drinking among Australian adolescents. This study aimed to explore the socio-demographic patterns of this increase to identify the potential causal factors[...]Périodique
W. HALL ; M. LYNSKEY ; L. DEGENHARDT | 2000FRANÇAIS : Ce document compare les données concernant les taux de mortalité par overdose au Royaume-Uni et en Australie entre 1985 et 1995. Ces données codées selon les critères de lICD-9 ont été obtenues auprès des registres des décès de lOffi[...]Périodique
FRANÇAIS : Les données concernant les overdoses aux opiacés ont été recueillies à partir du registre national des décès australien. On relève, entre 1979 et 1995, une augmentation de 70 à 550 overdoses, soit un taux de 10 à 67 par million d'ha[...]Périodique
B. BURTON | 2003ENGLISH : An evaluation report into an 18 month trial of Australias first medically supervised injecting centre has cleared the way for the continuation of the $A2.4m (£1m; 1.4m) a year project. The 233 page evaluation found that from[...]Périodique
A. M. CAMILLERI ; CALDICOTT D. | 2005ENGLISH : At a recent South Australian rave, results reported to users from on-site pill-testing, using pill-testing kits, were compared with GCMS analysis of a scraping from the same pill. The presence of an ecstasy-like substance or methylam[...]Article : Périodique
Background and aims: Prohibitions on producing, distributing and selling cannabis are loosening in various jurisdictions around the world. This paper describes the diversification of cannabis supply laws and discusses the challenges to and oppor[...]NouveautéRapport
FRANÇAIS : Cette monographie est composée de 40 chapitres courts traitant tous à des degrés divers de la recherche qualitative : exemples d'utilisation dans des études ou des évaluations de projets, réflexions plus théoriques sur son utilisati[...]Article : Périodique
Introduction and Aims. For consumers to follow drinking guidelines and limit their risk of negative consequences they need to track their ethanol consumption. This paper reviews published research on the ability of consumers to utilise informati[...]Article : Périodique
Aim: This study explored the motivations behind illicit tobacco use in Australia. A key focus was to investigate the hypothesis that the primary motivation for illicit tobacco use is its low cost in comparison to the price of legal tobacco. Met[...]Article : Périodique
J. FREESTONE ; N. EZARD ; A. BOURNE ; J. BRETT ; D. M. ROBERTS ; M. HAMMOUD ; A. NEDANOSKI ; G. PRESTAGE ; K. J. SIEFRIED |BACKGROUND: Gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) is used at disproportionately high rates within sexuality and gender diverse communities and carries a high risk of overdose. GHB overdose can result in death. Internationally, recent increases in GHB over[...]Livre
Tobacco, among the most popular consumer products of the twentieth century, is under attack. Once a behavior that knew no social bounds, cigarette smoking has been transformed into an activity that reflects sharp differences in social status. "U[...]Rapport
DrugScope ; BUSH W. ; M. ROBERTS ; M. TRACE | Oxford : The Beckley Foundation Drug Policy Programme | Briefing Paper | 2004Australia experienced extraordinary and unprecedented changes to its illicit drug market from the end of 2000. A heroin drought made the media headlines and grabbed the attention of drug policy specialists across the world. Less widely publicise[...]Congrès
J. DAVEY ; Upping and downing in down under: patterns and trends in Queensland and Australia (13-16 June 2000; Baltimore) ; A. DAVIES | Bethesda, MD : NIDA | 2000ENGLISH : Heroin is highly available in Australia. Heroin prices continue to fall, while purity continues to increase. Agencies report increases in heroin use among younger and more mainstream youth. Opioid mortality has doubled over the last [...]Article : Périodique
FRANÇAIS : Usages de drogues, forte exposition aux virus du sida et des hépatites, expérience de l'incarcération : les trois phénomènes sont fréquemment liés. Pour amorcer une analyse de cette interaction, les auteurs proposent une revue des do[...]Chapitre
FRANÇAIS : Si l'on considère que la prison a souvent la valeur d'un indicateur de précarité sociale (marginalité, désinsertion) et que la santé est traditionnellement liée au niveau d'insertion sociale, il est nécessaire de s'interroger sur l'[...]Rapport
T. SULLIVAN ; A. VOCE | Canberra : Australian Institute of Criminology | Statistical Bulletin, ISSN 2206-7302 | 2020This study explores how police detainees in Australia use mobile phones within the illicit drug market. Fifty-nine percent of respondents had used mobile phones to buy, deliver or supply drugs, mainly through phone calls, text messages or messag[...]Article : Périodique
D. M. PAQUETTE ; J. BRYANT ; J. DE WIT |Background Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a method for recruiting hidden populations, such as people who inject drugs (PWID). In RDS, participants recruit their peers into the study; who recruited who into the study is tracked, and thus inf[...]Article : Périodique
Aims: To investigate the prevalence of awareness of the online illicit drug marketplace Silk Road (SR), consumption of drugs purchased from SR and reasons for use and non-use of SR. Design and setting Global Drug Survey: purposive sample collect[...]Article : Périodique
Introduction and Aims: University students usually overestimate peer alcohol use, resulting in them 'drinking up' to perceived norms. Social norms theory suggests correcting these inflated perceptions can reduce alcohol consumption. Recent findi[...]Article : Périodique
F. Y. LAI ; P. K. THAI ; J. O'BRIEN ; C. GARTNER ; R. BRUNO ; B. KELE ; C. ORT ; J. PRICHARD ; P. KIRKBRIDE ; W. HALL ; S. CARTER ; J. F. MUELLER |Introduction and Aims: Wastewater analysis provides a non-intrusive way of measuring drug use within a population. We used this approach to determine daily use of conventional illicit drugs [cannabis, cocaine, methamphetamine and 3,4-methylenedi[...]Article : Périodique
Background: Outcome expectancies are a key cognitive construct in the etiology, assessment and treatment of Substance Use Disorders. There is a research and clinical need for a cannabis expectancy measure validated in a clinical sample of cannab[...]Article : Périodique
Psychedelic drugs such as LSD and psilocybin are often claimed to be capable of inducing life-changing experiences described as mystical or transcendental, especially if high doses are taken. The present study examined possible enduring effects [...]Article : Périodique
Aims: This paper examines the strategies and arguments used by segments of the alcohol industry to delay the introduction of mandatory health warning labels on alcohol containers in Australia. These strategies are compared with those used by the[...]Rapport
R. JÜRGENS | 1996FRANÇAIS : Ce document extrêmement riche soulève des questions d'ordre juridique, éthique, et qui relèvent également de la santé publique. Depuis des années, de nombreuses instances travaillent au Canada à produire "diverses recommandations vis[...]Article : Périodique
Background: Victoria's first medically supervised injecting room (MSIR) has remained controversial despite mounting evidence in support of the facility. The opposition to a policy idea is subject to a myriad of factors including the media. Favou[...]Rapport
FRANÇAIS : Ce rapport présente en introduction l'abus de solvants de manière générale : produits consommés, type d'usage, histoire, prévalence à travers plusieurs zones géographiques dans le monde, effets sur la santé, enjeux pour la recherche[...]Périodique
J. FITZGERALD ; M. HAMILTON ; P. DIETZE | 2000FRANÇAIS : L'augmentation du nombre des overdoses d'opioïdes non mortelles à Melbourne en Australie est survenue en même temps que l'émergence, dans différentes zones de Melbourne, de sites où l'héroïne est utilisée/revendue sur la voie publiq[...]Rapport
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ENGLISH : Introduction: The tobacco industry usually keeps its commercial and political communications separate. However, the images of the smoker developed by the two types of communication may contradict one another. This study assesses indu[...]Périodique
W. LOXLEY | 1998FRANÇAIS : Une étude qualitative du marché des drogues illicites en Australie a été menée par l'interrogatoire de 33 dealers détenus et de 4 membres de la police des stupéfiants. La plupart des revendeurs ont connu des disettes de vente de c[...]Article : Périodique
Introduction and Aims: Few epidemiological studies have examined the behaviours and experiences of young adults during discrete drug-use events. This study was designed to capture a rich, detailed description of discrete occasions or 'sessions' [...]Périodique
FRANÇAIS : L'Australie de l'ouest se mobilise afin d'enrayer la progression du Sida parmi les toxicomanes. Les initiatives se décomposent en deux catégories : - augmenter le matériel stérile utilisé par les toxicomanes (vente de seringues et d'[...]Article : Périodique
Stigma refers to the attribution of negative sentiments towards a particular entity, object or individual. Stigma can be public, perceived, or self-referential and can have negative consequences for individuals, including losses of self-esteem, [...]Chapitre
R. L. PACULA ; R. J. MACCOUN ; P. REUTER ; J. CHRIQUI ; B. KILMER ; K. HARRIS ; L. PAOLI ; C. SCHAFER | Bingley [UK] : Emerald Group | Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research | 2005Although frequently discussed as a singular policy, there is tremendous variation in the laws and regulations surrounding so-called decriminalization policies adopted by Werstern countries, with many jurisdictions adopting depenalization policie[...]Article : Périodique
Aims: This paper explores the complex and dynamic relationship between pleasure and harm as experienced by a group of young people during and after "party drug" use. Methods: Fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork was undertaken among regula[...]Article : Périodique
AIMS To assess the impact of tobacco control policies relating to youth access, clean indoor air and tobacco advertising at point-of-sale and outdoors, in addition to cigarette price and per capita tobacco control spending, on adolescent smoking[...]Périodique
SOUTHGATE E. ; WEATHERALL A. M. ; C. DAY ; K. A. DOLAN | 2005ENGLISH : Background: To explore folk understandings of blood borne virus infection and infectiousness among injecting drug users in Kings Cross, Sydney. Methods: Observational fieldwork was conducted in Kings Cross over a four month period. I[...]Article : Périodique
Background: Licit and illicit drugs are commonly used for recreational purposes, with users viewing them as a relatively safe and acceptable leisure activity. This study proposes key drivers for better understanding the attractions of recreation[...]Article : Périodique
Introduction: Despite the risks involved, the use of drugs for recreational purposes is prevalent and generally well accepted. However, there is sparse research to explore the drivers of this phenomenon. Method: Semi-structured interviews were [...]Article : Périodique
C. TRELOAR ; R. McLEOD ; K. YATES ; L. MAO |The aim of this study was to calculate the cost of a range of needle and syringe program (NSP) models to contribute to planning for effective NSP delivery. Existing health service data was used to estimate the cost per needle distributed across [...]Rapport
People with alcohol and other drug problems are over-represented in the criminal justice system and prisons provide a unique opportunity to address these problems. The relationship between alcohol and other drug use and crime is complex and tre[...]Document texte divers
FRANÇAIS : Le rapport a pour objectif de faire le point sur les liens entre l'usage de cannabis et la maladie mentale. Basé sur les données des recherches et les données cliniques évidentes, il constate une association forte entre l'usage de c[...]Article : Périodique
Introduction and Aims. Over recent years, numerous school-based preventive strategies have been explored as possible options to address illicit drug use by young people. However, there is scope to extend current knowledge of which school student[...]Article : Périodique
J. VAN BUSKIRK ; S. NAICKER ; A. ROXBURGH ; R. BRUNO ; L. BURNS |Background: To date monitoring of cryptomarkets operating on the dark net has largely focused on market size and substance availability. Less is known of country specific differences in these indicators and how they may corroborate population pr[...]NouveautéArticle : Périodique
In this paper we use individual level data from the Australian National Drug Strategy Household Survey to study the relationship between initiation into cannabis use and educational attainment. Using bivariate duration analysis we find that thos[...]Périodique
S. MACLEAN ; D'ABBS P. H. | 2006ENGLISH : Recent growing concern in Australia and elsewhere about harm associated with volatile substance misuse (VSM) in both urban and remote settings has prompted an openness to new policies, laws and programs for prevention and treatment. [...]Article : Périodique
E. PEADON ; J. PAYNE ; S. HENLEY ; H. D'ANTOINE ; A. BARTU ; C. O'LEARY ; C. BOWER ; E. J. ELLIOTT |BACKGROUND: Alcohol exposure in pregnancy is a common and modifiable risk factor for poor pregnancy and child outcomes. Alcohol exposure in pregnancy can cause a range of physical and neurodevelopmental problems in the child including the Fetal [...]