Drug use
Alternative labels
Drug abuse
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Recent trends in arrests for drug driving
As a result of the NSW Police Force conducting more mobile roadside drug tests, the number of persons charged and consequently found guilty of drug driving has rapidly increased since 2015.
Statistics
Australian methamphetamine user outcomes
This paper examines the demographics of methamphetamine users and their employment, education and health outcomes.
Report
National wastewater drug monitoring program: report 1
The National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program will provide leading-edge, coordinated national research and intelligence on illicit drugs and licit drugs that can be abused, with a specific focus on methylamphetamine and 12 other substances.
Report
Can Australia respond to drugs more effectively and safely?
Senior police, prison officers and lawyers are standing side-by-side with drug users calling for law reform, to bring an end to killing and criminalising young Australians. Drug-related deaths, diseases, injuries, crimes and social costs continue to rise despite more than 80,000 consumer arrests in Australia each year. So now four former Police Commissioners and Assistant...
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Australian drug trends 2016
Summary The Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS) is a national illicit drug monitoring system intended to identify emerging trends of local and national concern in illicit drug markets. The IDRS consists of three components: interviews with people who inject drugs regularly (PWID); interviews with key experts (KEs), who are professionals who have knowledge of drug...