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Australian Drug Trends 2007 : Findings from the Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS)
Australian Drug Trends Series No. 1
E. Black, A. Roxburgh, L. Degenhardt, R. Bruno, G. Campbell, B. de Graaff,
J. Fetherston, S. Kinner, C. Moon, B. Quinn, M. Richardson, N. Sindicich &
N. White
The jurisdictional reports from each State and Territory can be found at http://ndarc.med.unsw.edu.au/NDARCWeb.nsf/page/EDRSJurisdictional
Australian Trends in Ecstasy and Related Drug Markets 2007: Findings from the Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System (EDRS)
Australian Drug Trends Series No. 10
E. Black, M. Dunn, L. Degenhardt, G. Campbell, J. George, S. Kinner,
A. Matthews, B. Quinn, A. Roxburgh, A. Urbancic-Kenny and N. White
The jurisdictional reports from each State and Territory can be found at http://ndarc.med.unsw.edu.au/NDARCWeb.nsf/page/EDRSJurisdictional Counting the costs of crime in Australia : a 2005 update
Australian Institute of Criminology. Research and public policy series, no. 91
Kiah Rollings
AIC research in 2003 examined the costs of crime to the Australian community. This current report provides an update to the previous work by estimating the costs of crime for 2005. While relying primarily on data from the United Kingdom and United States, some Australian data provide general estimates of crime-related costs. The total costs of crime cover components of the criminal justice systems: police, courts, corrections, and other criminal justice-related government agencies; and the costs of fraud. The report covers a range of crimes against people and property, fraud, and drug-related crimes. Estimates for each of these cover the general characteristics of incidents, property loss, medical costs, lost output and intangible costs.
Effects of the Western Australian Cannabis Infringement Notice Scheme on public attitudes, knowledge and use: a comparison of pre- and post change data
National Drug Research Institute
This report provides the findings of the second (post) phase of a pre-post study into the impact of changing cannabis laws in Western Australia on community knowledge of and attitudes towards cannabis use, health, and the laws. Where appropriate, this report compares pre and post change data.
The management of cannabis use in Australian general practice
Anthony Arcuri, Amie Frewen, Jan Copeland, Christopher Harrison and Helena Britt
National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre and University of Sydney NCPIC Bulletin Series 2
Cannabis use is infrequently managed by Australian general medical practitioners (GPs). In terms of illicit drug problems, however, it is second only to the management of heroin use, which mostly involves the prescription of opioid maintenance pharmacotherapy.1 In any given year, the majority of Australians (85%) visit a GP at least once.2 While the literature is replete with research exploring how alcohol,3 opiate,4 and tobacco5 use are managed by GPs, little is known about general practice management of cannabis use problems, particularly in Australia.
Mental health and adolescent cannabis use
Prepared by Susannah O'Brien and Wendy Swift from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre for the New South Wales. Dept. of Education and Training National Corrections Drug Strategy 2006-2009
National Drugs Strategy
The National Corrections Drug Strategy 2006-2009 is closely linked to, and seeks to compliment Australia’s current National Drug Strategy 2004-2009.
Psychotherapy for methamphetamine dependence: treatment manual
Dr Matthew Smout
Drug and Alcohol Services South Australia
This manual is based on the author’s experience in the South Australian Amphetamine Treatment Project, as the principal therapist in the psychotherapy study outlined above, a study of a Psychostimulant Check-Up (a brief intervention for psychostimulant users) of 80 participants, a provider of CBT in a randomised controlled trial of dexamphetamine maintenance for methamphetamine dependence and primary provider of psychological therapies for methamphetamine users in South Australian specialist drug treatment services between 2003 and 2007. The author estimates he has either assessed or provided psychological therapy services to over 300 methamphetamine users in
that period. This manual is the synthesis of the most effective elements of the two protocols employed in the Amphetamine Treatment Project psychotherapy study. Despite pitting these protocols against each other in the psychotherapy study, the approaches are highly compatible and have been combined in other studies. Qualitative field study for users of performance and image enhancing drugs.
Dennington V, Finney-Lamb, C., Dillon, P., Larance, B., Vial R., Copeland, R., Newcombe D., Ali R.
DASSA Monograph No. 25
This report presents findings from a collaborative research project undertaken in 2006 by Drug and Alcohol Services South Australia (DASSA), National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC), and Streetwize Communications. The project consisted of a qualitative field study of users and key informants on the use of performance and image enhancing drugs (PIEDs) and was funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing Drug Strategy Branch. The aim of the study was to explore the motivations, behaviours, risks and physical and psychological harms associated with the use of PIEDs.
Volatile substance misuse : a review of interventions
National Drug Strategy monograph series no. 65
Peter d’Abbs and Sarah Mclean
This review examines published and unpublished literature about interventions designed to combat volatile substance misuse, defined as the deliberate inhalation of a volatile substance in order to achieve a change in mental state. The review is an updated edition of one initially published by the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal and Tropical Health as Petrol Sniffing in Aboriginal Communities : a Review of Interventions (d’Abbs & Maclean, 2000)
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