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Building procedural justice in Australian street-level drug law enforcement

Larissa Maier, Adam Winstock

The study provides an assessment of the extent to which Australian street-level drug law enforcement approaches are perceived as procedurally just by people who use illicit drugs, to benchmark procedural justice levels and to identify predictors of and methods to enhance procedural justice. It outlines avenues to improve the procedural justice in Australia.
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The relationship between drug price and purity and population level harm


This rapid review examines the relationship between price, purity and seven population level measures of drug-related harm and any differences across three drug types.
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Australian music festival attendees who seek emergency medical treatment following alcohol and other drug use


Between September 2018 and January 2019, five young people died after attending music festivals in NSW. While there has been much policy deliberation surrounding these events, these tragedies have highlighted a lack of current and localised information about the circumstances surrounding acute harm events following drug use among Australian festivalgoers.
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Police diversion for cannabis offences: assessing outcomes and cost-effectiveness


This study supports previous findings that diversion for minor cannabis offences can save money and lead to better social consequences.
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Australian threshold quantities for ‘drug trafficking’: are they placing drug users at risk of unjustified sanction?


This study uses data on patterns of drug user consumption and purchasing to evaluate Australian legal threshold quantities to see whether Australian drug users are at risk of exceeding the thresholds for personal use alone. Introduction Drug trafficking in Australia is deemed a very serious offence, one for which legislators and courts have ruled general...

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