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National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
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NDARC
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Technical report
Alcohol-related crime: finding a suitable measure for community-level analyses using routinely collected data
This study provides a method for developing and testing the reliability of estimates of population measures for alcohol-related crime.
Report
Mephedrone use among regular ecstasy consumers in Australia
This report finds that use of mephedrone, a synthetic stimulant, has increased in recent years, particularly in the UK, Europe and Australia. The report also finds that: • One-fifth (21%) of the 2010 national regular ecstasy user sample reported lifetime use of mephedrone and 17% reported use of mephedrone in the six months preceding the...
Report
The health and wellbeing of a group of Tasmanian regular injecting drug users
People who regularly inject drugs also experience a range of other health problems, which may be secondary to drug use. This bulletin provides an overview of the general health and wellbeing of regular injecting drug users participating in a 2010 study. It also examines the differences between two sub-samples of this group - one experiencing...
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The health and psychological effects of "ecstasy" (MDMA) use
This monograph considers a number of possible consequences of ecstasy use and identifies the research needed to more definitively answer questions about whether ecstasy has adverse effects on health of type reviewed. This work arose out of the increasing perception that there needed to be a summary of existing research on the epidemiology and possible...
Technical report
Searching the grey literature to access information on drug and alcohol research
This report presents a comprehensive list of relevant websites and databases collated from the work of several international projects on illicit drug use.