Programs, projects and lessons

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Programs and projects

Indigenous Risk Impact Screen and Brief Intervention
The Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs Unit (ATODS) in Queensland Health manages programs in the treatment, management, early intervention and treatment of alcohol and other drug problems. ATODS developed the Screening Tool and Brief Intervention program to specifically address issues associated with the use of alcohol and other drugs in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. The screening tool is currently being trialled across Queensland sites.
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Petrol Sniffing Prevention Program
This website has been designed to provide up to date information about the Australian Government's Petrol Sniffing Prevention Program (PSPP) which is managed by the Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (OATSIH). It provides information, resources and links relating to the Program and about Opal fuel, for communities and community workers; health professionals and other health workers; and students.
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Lessons learned

Case studies

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner (2004)
Social justice report 2003.
Sydney: Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
View Chapter 4 - Responding to petrol sniffing on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands: a case study (HTML)

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Evaluations

Bryce S, Rowse T, Scrimgeour D (1992)
Evaluating the petrol sniffing prevention programs of the Healthy Aboriginal Life Team [HALT].
Australian Journal of Public Health, 16(4), 387-396
No link available

Burns C, Currie B, Clough A, Wuridjal R (1995)
Evaluation of strategies used by a remote Aboriginal community to eliminate petrol sniffing.
Medical Journal of Australia, 163, 82-84
No link available

Burns CB, Currie BJ, Powers JR (1996)
An evaluation of unleaded petrol as a harm reduction strategy for petrol sniffers in an Aboriginal community.
Journal of Toxicology - Clinical Toxicology, 34, 27-36
No link available

d'Abbs P, Maclean S (2000)
Petrol sniffing in Aboriginal communities: a review of interventions.
Darwin: Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal and Tropical Health
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Shaw G, Biven A, Gray D, Mosey A, Stearne A, et al. (2004)
An evaluation of the Comgas scheme: they sniffed it and they sniffed it but it just wasn't there.
Canberra: Department of Health and Ageing
View report (PDF - 1.5MB - large file warning!)

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Last updated: 21 April 2008