Key references

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  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner (2004) Responding to petrol sniffing on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands: a case study. Social justice report 2003. Sydney: Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission:107-154
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  • Access Economics (2006) Opal cost benefit analysis. Canberra: The Opal Alliance
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  • 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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  • Brady M (1992) Heavy metal: the social meaning of petrol sniffing in Australia. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press
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  • Burns C (1996). An end to petrol sniffing? Unpublished Doctor of Philosophy thesis, University of Sydney, Sydney.
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  • Burns C, Currie B (1995). The efficacy of chelation therapy and factors influencing mortality in lead intoxicated petrol sniffers. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine, 25, 197-203.
  • 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.
  • Burns CB, Currie BJ,Powers JR (1996) An evaluation of unleaded petrol as a harm reduction strategy for petrol sniffers in an Aboriginal community. J Toxicol - Clin Toxicol, 34, 27-36.
  • Butt J (2004) Independent evaluation of the Get Real Challenge: issues facing Indigenous youth who misuse volatile substances, and outcomes of a program targeting these issues. Brisbane: Aboriginal and Islander Community Health Service Brisbane & Brisbane City Council
  • Cairney S (2003) Brain dysfunction associated with petrol sniffing and kava drinking in Arnhem Land Aboriginal communities. Unpublished Doctor of Philosophy thesis, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria
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  • Cairney S, Maruf P, Burns CB, Currie J, Currie B (2004) Neurological and cognitive impairment associated with leaded gasoline encephalopathy. Drug and alcohol dependence;73(2):183-188
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  • Cairney S, Maruf P, Burns CB, Currie J, Currie BJ (2005) Neurological and cognitive recovery following abstinence from petrol sniffing. Neuropsychopharmacology;30(5):1019-1027
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  • Clough AR, Guyula T, Yunupingu M, Burns CB (2002) Diversity of substance use in eastern Arnhem land (Australia): patterns and recent changes. Drug and Alcohol Review;21:349-356
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  • Community Affairs References Committee (2006) Beyond petrol sniffing: renewing hope for Indigenous communities. Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia
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  • d'Abbs PH, Brady M (2004) Other people, other drugs: the policy response to petrol sniffing among Indigenous Australians. Drug and Alcohol Review;23(3):253-260
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  • 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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  • Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory, Select Committee on Substance Abuse in the Community (2004) Petrol sniffing in remote Northern Territory communities. Darwin: Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory
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  • Lehmann M (1998) Development of a manual for the detoxification and treatment of Aboriginal solvent abusers: literature review. Kent Town, SA: Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Council (SA) Inc.
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  • 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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  • MacLean SJ, d'Abbs PHN (2002) Petrol sniffing in Aboriginal communities: a review of interventions. Drug and Alcohol Review;21(1):65-72
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  • Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy (2003) National Drug Strategy: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples Complementary Action Plan 2003-2006. Canberra: Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy
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  • National Inhalant Abuse Taskforce (2006) National directions on inhalant abuse, final report. Melbourne: Victorian Government Department of Human Services
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  • Parliament of Victoria, Drugs and Crime Prevention Committee (2002) Inquiry into the inhalation of volatile substances, final report. Melbourne: Drugs and Crime Prevention Committee
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  • Preuss K, Brown JN (2006) Stopping petrol sniffing in remote Aboriginal Australia: key elements of the Mt Theo program. Drug and Alcohol Review;25(3):189-193
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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
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