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Organisation

Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare

Report

Drug problems in Australia - an intoxicated society?


Tabled in 1977, this was the first comprehensive government report on drugs in Australia. In the 1960s illicit drug use in Australia was raplidly increasing, leading to stricter legal penalties. By the 1970s it became clear that the legal penalties were having a limited impact. At this time the health impacts of alcohol and tobbaco...

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