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The tutakalani by Donna Lei Rioli
Donna is a young Tiwi/Nyungar woman who is dedicated to the heritage and culture of the Tiwi people on her father's side, Maurice Rioli, and the Nyungar people on her mother's side, Robyn Collard. Her father and grandfather's country is at Wulawunga on Melville Island north of Darwin.
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Publications: general
References and links for non-specific, general publications on Indigenous illicit drug use are provided here.
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General
2008
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2008)
2007 national drug strategy household survey: first results. (AIHW Catalogue no. PHE 98)
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
View report (PDF - 16.9MB - large file warning!)
View website: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2008)
The effectiveness of the Illicit Drug Diversion Initiative in rural and remote Australia. (AIHW Catalogue no. PHE 96)
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
View report (PDF - 735KB)
View report (HTML)
View website: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Clough A, Conigrave K (2008)
Managing confidentiality in illicit drugs research: ethical and legal lessons from studies in remote Aboriginal communities.
Internal Medicine Journal;38(1):60-63
View abstract: PubMed
View website: National Center for Biotechnology Information
Lee KS, Conigrave KM, Clough AR, Wallace C, Silins E, et al. (2008)
Evaluation of a community-driven preventive youth initiative in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia.
Drug and Alcohol Review; 27(1):75-82
View abstract: Informaworld
View website: Drug and Alcohol Review
Senior K, Chenhall R (2008)
Lukumbat Marawana: a changing pattern of drug use by youth in a remote Aboriginal community.
Australian Journal of Rural Health;16(2):75-79
View abstract: Australian Journal of Rural Health
View website: Blackwell Synergy
Teasdale KE, Conigrave KM, Kiel KA, Freeburn B, Long G, et al. (2008)
Improving services for prevention and treatment of substance misuse for Aboriginal communities in a Sydney Area Health Service.
Drug and Alcohol Review;27(2):152-159
View article: Informaworld (PDF - 208KB)
View article: Informaworld (HTML)
View website: Informaworld
Weatherburn DJ (2008)
Role of drug and alcohol policy in reducing Indigenous over-representation in prison.
Drug and Alcohol Review;27(1):91-94
View abstract: PubMed
View website: PubMed
2007
Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Council (SA) Inc. (2007)
Annual report 2006/2007: educating the community about substance misuse.
Adelaide: Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Council (SA) Inc
View report (PDF - 2.9MB - large file warning!)
View website: Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Council (SA) Inc
Community Services and Health Industry Skills Council (2007)
Improving the capacity of workers in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to recognise and respond to mental illness and related alcohol and other drug issues: background report.
Sydney: Community Services and Health Industry Skills Council
View report (PDF - 1.2MB - large file warning!)
View website: Community Services and Health Industry Skills Council
Gray D, Saggers S, Atkinson D, Wilkes E (2007)
Substance misuse
In: Couzos S, Murray R, eds.
Aboriginal primary health care: an evidence-based approach. 3rd ed.
South Melbourne: Oxford University Press:755-787
View details: Oxford University Press
Nicholas R (2007)
Alcohol and other drug problems among Indigenous Australians from rural and remote regions: a policing perspective.
Canberra: Australasian Centre for Policing Research
View report (PDF - 283KB)
View website: Australasian Centre for Policing Research
Nicholas R (2007)
Policing responses to substance misuse in rural and remote Indigenous communities.
Alice Springs: National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund
View report (PDF - 425KB)
View website: National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund
Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (2007)
Drug and alcohol service reporting: 2005-06 key results: a national profile of Australian Government funded Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander substance use specific services.
Canberra: Department of Health and Ageing
View report (PDF - 2.1MB - large file warning!)
View website: Department of Health and Ageing
Pritchard E, Mugavin J, Swan A (2007)
Compulsory treatment in Australia: a discussion paper on the compulsory treatment of individuals dependent on alcohol and/or other drugs.
Canberra: Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre Inc., Australian National Council on Drugs
View report: (PDF - 852KB)
View website: Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre
View website: Australian National Council on Drugs
Putt J, Frearson P (2007)
Illicits and their impact.
Of Substance;5(1):24
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article: Of Substance (PDF - 784KB)
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website: Of Substance
Stathis S, Letters P, Dacre E, Doolan I, Heath K, et al. (2007)
The role of an Indigenous Health Worker in contributing to equity of access to a mental health and substance abuse service for Indigenous young people in a youth detention centre.
Australian e-Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health;6(1)
View article: Australian e-Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health (PDF - 111KB)
View website: Australian e-Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health
Select Committee on Substance Abuse in the Community (2007)
Substance abuse in remote communities: confronting the confusion and disconnection.
Darwin: Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory
View report (PDF - 616KB)
View website: Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory
Weatherburn D (2007)
Drugs, alcohol and Indigenous imprisonment.
Of Substance;5(2):12-13
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article: Of Substance (PDF - 748KB)
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website: Of Substance
2006
Australian Government (2006)
Australian Government response to the House of Representatives
inquiry into substance abuse in Australian communities: road
to recovery: report on the inquiry into substance abuse in
Australian communities.
Canberra: Australian Government
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report (PDF - 429KB)
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Parliament of Australia
Australian Institute of Criminology (2006)
Police perception of negative outcomes due to illicit
drugs in Indigenous communities.
Canberra: Australian Government, Australian Institute of Criminology
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report (PDF -144KB)
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Australian Institute of Criminology
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2006)
Alcohol and other drug treatment services in Australia
2004-05: report on the National Minimum Data Set.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
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report (PDF - 672KB)
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2006)
Drug use among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples:
an assessment of data sources.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
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report (PDF - 554KB)
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Chikritzhs T, Brady M (2006)
Substance use in the 2002 NATSISS.
Canberra: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
View report (PDF - 341KB)
View website: Australian National University E Press
Clough A (2006)
Some costs and challenges of conducting follow-up studies
of substance use in remote Aboriginal communities: an example
from the Northern Territory.
Drug and Alcohol Review;25(5):455-458
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abstract: Drug and Alcohol Review
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website: Ingenta Connect
Delahunty B, Putt J (2006)
Good practice framework: policing illicit drugs in rural
and remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Studies and Australian Government Department of Health
and Ageing
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report (PDF - 284KB)
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National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund
Department of Corrective Services (2006)
Profile of women in prison 2005: main findings of the Prisoner Characteristics and Needs Survey
Perth: Department of Corrective Services
View report (PDF - 1.2MB - large file warning!)
(Chapter 9 includes statistics on alcohol and drug use)
View website: Department of Corrections
Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (2006)
Drug and alcohol service reporting: 2004-05 key results: a national profile of Australian Government funded Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander substance use specific services.
Canberra : Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
View report (PDF - 1.8MB - large file warning!)
View website: Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Putt J, Delahunty B (2006)
Illicit drug use in rural and remote Indigenous communities.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology
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report (PDF - 279KB)
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Australian Institute of Criminology
Van der Sterren A, Anderson IP, Thorpe LG (2006)
'Individual' harms, community 'harms': reconciling Indigenous
values with drug harm minimisation policy.
Drug and Alcohol Review;25(3):219-225
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abstract: Drug and Alcohol Review
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Taylor and Francis (publishers)
2005
Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Institute of
Health and Welfare (2005)
The health and welfare of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander peoples 2005.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and the
Australian Bureau of Statistics
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report (PDF - 5.2MB - large file warning!)
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section: Chapter 8: Health risk factors (PDF - 308KB)
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summary booklet (PDF - 759KB)
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2005)
2004 National Drug Strategy Household Survey: detailed
findings.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
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report (PDF - 543KB)
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2005)
National comorbidity initiative: a review of data collections
relating to people with coexisting substance use and mental
health disorders.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
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report (PDF -1.0MB - large file warning!)
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2005)
Statistics on drug use in Australia 2004.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
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report (PDF - 1.1MB - large file warning!)
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Coupland H, Ball K, Costello M, Harvey B, Maher L (2005)
'Something is going to get us': a consultation and development project for a national campaign addressing injecting drug use in Indigenous communities, final report.
Darlinghurst, NSW: Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations and the Australian Injecting and Illicit Drug Users League
View report (PDF - 524KB)
View abstract: Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations
View website: Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations
Miller S (2005)
Mapping national drug treatment capacity.
Canberra: Australian National Council on Drugs
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report (PDF - 3.1MB - large file warning!)
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website: Australian National Council on Drugs
Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (2005)
Drug and alcohol service reporting: -04 key results:
a national profile of Australian Government Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander substance use specific services.
Canberra: Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
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report (PDF - 274KB)
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Department of Health and Ageing
Putt J, Payne J, Milner L (2005)
Indigenous male offending and substance abuse.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology
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report (PDF - 190KB)
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Australian Institute of Criminology
Tongs J, Chatfield H, Dance P, Guthrie J (2005)
'I want to be heard': an analysis of needs of Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander illegal drug users in the ACT and
region for treatment and other services: community report:
findings from the final report.
Canberra: National Centre for Epidemiology and Population
Health, Australian National University and Winnunga Nimmityjah
Aboriginal Health Service
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report (PDF - 15.0MB - large file warning!)
View website:
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health
2004
Black E, Dolan K, Wodak A (2004)
Supply, demand and harm reduction strategies in Australian
prisons: implementation, cost and evaluation.
Canberra: Australian National Council on Drugs
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report (PDF - 2.9MB - large file warning!)
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Australian National Council on Drugs
Dance P, Tongs J, Guthrie J, McDonald D, D'Souza R, et al.
(2004)
'I want to be heard': an analysis of needs of Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander illegal drug users in the ACT and
region for treatment and other services.
Canberra: National Centre for Epidemiology and Population
Health, Australian National University
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report (PDF - 1.1MB - large file warning!)
View
website: National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health
Gray D, Haines B, Watts S (2004)
Alcohol and other drug education and training for Indigenous
workers: a literature review.
Perth: Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Council & the National
Drug Research Institute
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report (PDF - 355KB)
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website: Curtin University of Technology Institutional Repository
Loxley W, Toumbourou JW, Stockwell T, Haines B, Scott K,
et al. (2004)
The prevention of substance use, risk and harm in Australia:
a review of the evidence.
Canberra: The National Drug Research Institute and the Centre
for Adolescent Health
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report (PDF - 1.7MB - large file warning!)
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summary (PDF - 426KB)
View website:
Department of Health and Ageing
2003
Alcohol and other Drugs Council of Australia (2003)
Policy positions of the Alcohol and other Drugs Council of Australia.
Deakin: Alcohol and other Drugs Council of Australia
View information
View website: Alcohol and other Drugs Council of Australia
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2003)
Statistics on drug use in Australia 2002.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
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report (PDF - 602KB)
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Copeland J, Howard J, Keogh T, Seidler K (2003)
Patterns and correlates of substance use amongst juvenile
detainees in New South Wales 1989-99.
Drug and Alcohol Review;22(1):15-20
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abstract: Drug and Alcohol Review
View website:
Taylor and Francis (publishers)
Siggins Miller Consultants and Catherine Spooner Consulting
(2003)
Diversion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth
from juvenile detention.
Canberra: Australian National Council on Drugs
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report (PDF - 1.9MB - large file warning!)
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Australian National Council on Drugs
Standing Committee on Family and Community Affairs (2003)
Road to Recovery: report on the inquiry into substance abuse in Australian communities, list of recommendations.
Canberra: Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia
View report (PDF - 150KB)
View website: Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia
2002
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2002)
2001 National Drug Strategy Household Survey: detailed
findings.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
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report (PDF - 627KB)
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Australian National Council on Drugs (2002)
ANCD report into Cape York Indigenous issues.
Canberra: Australian National Council on Drugs
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report (PDF - 263KB)
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Australian National Council on Drugs
Drug and Alcohol Policy Unit (2002)
Report to Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory Select Committee on Substance Abuse in the Community. (Submission number 0007)
Darwin: Northern Territory Police
View report (PDF - 369KB)
View website: Northern Territory Police
Rosewarne C (2002)
Central Australian Aboriginal Congress submission: taskforce
on illicit drugs.
Alice Springs: Central Australian Aboriginal Congress
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report
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Central Australian Aboriginal Congress
Young L (2002)
Presentation to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly Select Committee on Substance Abuse in the Community. (Submission number 0020)
Darwin: Department of Health and Ageing
View submission (PDF - 70KB)
View website: Department of Health and Ageing
2001
Australian Bureau of Statistics (2001)
Illicit drug use, sources of Australian data 2001.
Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics
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report (PDF - 492KB)
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Australian Bureau of Statistics
Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (2001?)
Substance misuse service report: 1999-2000 key results.
Canberra: Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Health, Department of Health and Aged Care
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report (PDF - 617KB)
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Department of Health and Ageing
Saggers S, Gray D, Catalano P (2001)
Port Hedland and Roebourne substance misuse services review.
Perth: National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University
of Technology
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report (PDF - 565KB)
View
website: National Drug Research Institute
Shand FL, Mattick RP, National Drug and Alcohol Research
Centre (2001)
Clients of treatment service agencies: May 2001 census
findings.
Canberra: Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing
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report (PDF - 444KB)
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Department of Health and Ageing
2000
Alati R, Peterson C, Rice P (2000)
The development of Indigenous substance misuse services in
Australia: belief, conflicts and change.
Australian Journal of Primary Health Interchange;6(2):49-62
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HealthInfoNet abstract
Dance P, Brown R, Bammer G (2000)
'They'll just read about us in storybooks': estimations
of the number of young Indigenous people using illegal drugs
in the ACT and Region.
Canberra: National Centre for Epidemiology and Population
Health (NCEPH), Australian National University (ANU)
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HealthInfoNet abstract
Prior to 2000
Hando J, Hall W, Rutter S, Dolan K (1999)
Current state of research on illicit drugs in Australia:
an information document.
Canberra: National Health and Medical Research Council
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HealthInfoNet abstract
Patterson KM, Holman CDJ, English DR, Hulse GK, Unwin E (1999)
First-time hospital admissions with illicit drug problems
in Indigenous and non-Indigenous Western Australians: an application
of record linkage to public health surveillance.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health;23(5):460-463
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abstract: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
View
website: National Centre for Biotechnology Information
Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (1991)
Illicit drug use by Aboriginal people: national report, volume 2.
View section of report
View website: Australasian Legal Information Institute
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