This paper focuses on the role of research in assessing what impact changes in the supply of heroin from source countries might have. Such changes are difficult to explain and even harder to predict due to the lack of reliable data on drug production, price indices and a range of other variables. This paper reviews...

This paper assesses some of the major costs for a range of offences. The cost of the crimes covered here amounts to $19 billion. Other costs (such as policing, prisons and the security industry) add nearly another $13 billion. The total estimated bill is nearly $32 billion per year. Fraud is the most costly crime...

This study examined the prevalence of driving under the influence of cannabis (DUIC), and DUIC and alcohol together, in an area of Australia with a high number of young cannabis users. The prevalence of DUIC alone, and in combination with alcohol, appears to be low, but higher among those who regularly use cannabis. Implications for...

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...