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National Drug Strategy: The costs of tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug abuse to Australian Society in 2004/05

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare: 2007 National Drug Strategy Household Survey: first results

World Health Organisation (WHO): UNODC-WHO Principles of drug dependence treatment - a discussion paper.

Australian Crime Commission: http://www.crimecommission.gov.au/html/pg_publications.html

2006-2007 ACC Annual Report: http://www.crimecommission.gov.au/html/pg_annual_rep_06-07.html

Organised Crime in Australia (2008): http://www.crimecommission.gov.au/html/pg_publications.html

Illicit Drug Data Report: http://www.crimecommission.gov.au/html/pg_iddr2005-06.html

World Health Organisation: Interventions To Address HIV In Prisons Drug Dependence Treatments (PDF)

World Health Organisation: Interventions To Address HIV In Prisons Needle And Syringe Programmes And Decontamination Strategies (PDF)

Australian Drug Foundation in conjunction with Turning Point Alcohol & Drug Centre: Drugs and driving in Australia: a survey of community attitudes, experience and understanding

Department of Health and Ageing: Alerting the Community to the Link between Illicit Drugs and Mental Illness. A report on the understanding of the link between illicit drugs and mental illness among Australians.

Department of Human Services, Victoria: Final report National Inhalant Abuse Taskforce November 2005
with Addendum July 2006. The National Inhalant Abuse Taskforce (NIAT) was established by the Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy (MCDS) to consider existing initiatives, programs and strategies to address inhalant abuse in Australia and to make recommendations for a national response to inhalant abuse.

Australian Government: National Cannabis Prevention and Information CentreManagement Committee - A new management committee has been created to support the National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre in setting its directions and progress

United Nations Office of Drug and Crime: 2007 World Drug Report

National Leadership Forum on Ice: This page provides information about the National Leadership Forum on Ice and links to resources.

Medically Supervised Injecting Centre:

National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC): Drug Policy Modelling Program
Working Estimates of the Social Costs per gram and per user for cannabis, cocaine, opiates and amphetamines

Attorney General’s Department: NSW Recorded Crime Statistics 2006

Turning Point Alcohol & Drug Centre Inc: Methamphetamine Dependence and Treatment

HBO – Addiction: The Addiction Project is produced by HBO in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA).

NSW Health: Drug and Alcohol Plan 2006-2010

Australian National Council on Drugs: Australian Alcohol and Other Drugs Charter

Commonwealth Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Australian Crime Commission: Inquiry into amphetamines and other synthetic drugs

International Narcotics Control Board: 2006 Annual Report

UNSW: Drug Policy Modelling Program
This program aims to provide a more comprehensive approach to drug policy; exploring dynamic interactions between law enforcement, prevention, treatment and harm reduction.

AIDS Council of NSW (ACON): PMA Alert

Mental Health Council of Australia: Where There’s Smoke – Cannabis and Mental Health

Pfizer/National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre: Pfizer Health Report – Australians and Cannabis
Survey of 1,439 Australian adults about their attitudes to cannabis use including health and social impacts and government policy.

Australian National Council on Drugs: Methamphetamines Position Paper

NSW Government: The State Plan - A New Direction for NSW
The State Plan aims to deliver better results for the community from NSW Government services. The Plan identifies specific measurable priorities, which includes improving health through reduced smoking, illicit drug use and risk drinking.

National Drug Strategy: Australian secondary school students’ use of over-the-counter and illicit substances in 2005. October 2006.

NSW Government Response to Inebriates Act Report: The Government has announced new plans to assist alcohol or drug dependent into treatment as part of its response to the Legislative Council Standing Committee on Social Issues Report on the Inebriates Act.

NSW Parliamentary Research Service: Crystal Methamphetamine Use in New South Wales. December 2006.

Australian Government: Response to the House of Representatives’ Road to Recovery: Report on the inquiry into substance abuse in Australian communities (430Kb PDF). August 2006

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW): Alcohol and other drug treatment services in Australia 2004-05 Report and Bulletin. July 2006.

National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research (NCHECR): Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre – Interim Evaluation Report No. 2 - Evaluation of Community Attitudes towards the Sydney MSIC

United Nations Office of Drug & Crime: 2006 World Drug Report

Australian Department of Health and Ageing:
National Clinical Guidelines and Procedures for the Use of Buprenorphine in the Treatment of Opioid Dependence
N Lintzeris, N Clark, A Winstock, A Dunlop, P Muhleisen, L Gowing, R Ali, A Ritter, J Bell, A Quigley, RP Mattick, B Monheit, J White. 2006

Alerting the Community to the Link between Illicit Drugs and Mental Illness
A report on the understanding of the link between illicit drugs and mental illness among Australians.

NSW Department of Education: End of Year Celebration Kit. 2005

Beckley Foundation Drug Policy Foundation: Towards a Review of Global Policies on Illegal Drugs
This report discusses the global drug control system - particularly the role of the United Nations - and the challenges confronting drug policy. It argues that the current system is not achieving its stated objective: to eradicate completely - or even substantially reduce - illicit drug markets.

Beckley Foundation Drug Policy Foundation: Incarceration of drug offenders: Costs and impacts [PDF 108Kb]
Bewley-Taylor D, Trace M & Stevens A, June 2005

Beckley Foundation Drug Policy Foundation: Facing the future: The challenge for national and international drug policy [PDF 136Kb] Roberts M, Bewley-Taylor D & Trace M, UK 2005

Australian National Council on Drugs (ANCD): Mapping National Drug Treatment Capacity
A comprehensive listing of all the drug and alcohol treatment services across Australia

The National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund (NDLERF): The Sydney methamphetamine market: Patterns of supply, use, personal harms and social consequences
By Rebecca McKetin, Jennifer McLaren and Erin Kelly. 2005

Attorney General's Department: Driving under the influence of cannabis: The problem and potential countermeasures
This bulletin assessed (a) whether recent drug-drivers were more likely to self-report accidents than non-intoxicated drivers; (b) the likely deterrent effect of roadside drug testing (RDT), increasing the severity of sanctions for drug-driving and providing factual information about accident risk associated with drug-driving; and (c) what factors were predictive of driving under the influence of cannabis (DUIC).

The results provided only limited support for a relationship between DUIC and accident risk. RDT appears to act as a more effective deterrent against drug-driving than either increasing the severity of sanctions or providing factual information about the risks associated with the behaviour. Males, dependent users, early onset cannabis users, frequent drivers, cannabis users who had used more classes of other drugs and cannabis users who believed that their risk of accident would not change following cannabis use were all more likely to report DUIC. BOCSAR report. Released 25 October 2005

National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC):