Reports

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2007

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

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

2006

Access Economics (2006)
Opal cost benefit analysis.
Canberra: The Opal Alliance
View abstract: HealthInfoNet
View report
View website: Access Economics

Community Affairs References Committee (2006)
Beyond petrol sniffing: renewing hope for Indigenous communities.
Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia
View report (HTML)
View report (PDF - 904KB)
View website: Parliament of Australia, Senate Community Affairs Committee (Inquiry into petrol sniffing in remote Aboriginal communities)

Delahunty B, Putt J (2006)
The policing implications of cannabis, amphetamine and other illicit drug use in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
View report (PDF - 702KB)
View website: National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund

Gray D, Shaw G, d'Abbs P, Brooks D, Stearne A, et al. (2006)
Policing, volatile substance misuse and Indigenous Australians.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
View report (PDF - 1.04MB - large file warning!)
View website: National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund

Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy (2006)
National Drug Strategy: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples Complementary Action Plan 2003-2009: background paper.
Canberra: Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy
View report (PDF - 429KB)
(This report replaces the 2003-2006 edition)
View website: National Drug Strategy

Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy (2006)
National Drug Strategy: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' Complementary Action Plan 2003-2009: Torres Strait Islander supplement.
Canberra: Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy
View report (PDF - 970KB)
(This report replaces the 2003-2006 edition)
View website: National Drug Strategy

Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy (2006)
National Drug Strategy: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' Complementary Action Plan 2003-2009: glossary.
Canberra: Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy
View report (PDF - 206KB)
(This report replaces the 2003-2006 edition)
View website: National Drug Strategy

Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy (2006)
National Drug Strategy: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' Complementary Action Plan 2003-2009: summary.
Canberra: Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy
View report (PDF - 98KB)
(This report replaces the 2003-2006 edition)
View website: National Drug Strategy

Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy (2006)
National Drug Strategy: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples Complementary Action Plan 2003-2009: action plan.
Canberra: Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy
View report (PDF - 823KB)
(This report replaces the 2003-2006 edition)
View website: National Drug Strategy

National Inhalant Abuse Taskforce (2006)
National directions on inhalant abuse, final report.
Melbourne: Victorian Government Department of Human Services
View report (PDF - 913KB)
View website: Victorian Government Health Information

2005

Alcohol and Other Drugs Council of Australia (2005)
Submission to the Inquiry into petrol sniffing in remote Aboriginal communities.
Woden, ACT: ADCA
View report (PDF - 112KB)
View website: Parliament of Australia

Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2005)
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
View HealthInfoNet current topic
View HealthInfoNet abstract
View Chapter 8: Health risk factors (PDF - 308KB)
View Chapter 10: Health services provision, access and use (PDF - 650KB)
View report (PDF - 5.22MB - large file warning!)
View website: 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
View report (PDF - 1.07MB - large file warning!)
View website: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Crime and Misconduct Commission Queensland (2005)
The places of safety model: an evaluation: responding to volatile substance misuse.
Brisbane: Crime and Misconduct Commission
View report (PDF - 431KB)
View website: Crime and Misconduct Commission

Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (2005)
Drug and alcohol service reporting: 2003-04 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
View report (PDF - 275KB)
View website: Australian Government: Department of Health and Ageing

Putt J, Payne J, Milner L (2005)
Indigenous male offending and substance abuse.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology
View HealthInfoNet abstract
View report (PDF - 186KB)
View website: Australian Institute of Criminology

2004

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
View report (PDF - 1.6MB - large file warning!)
View website: Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing

Select Committee on Substance Abuse in the Community (2004)
Petrol sniffing in remote Northern Territory communities.
Darwin: Select Committee on Substance Abuse in the Community, Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory
View report (PDF - 504KB)
View website: Northern Territory Government

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!)
View website: Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing

Toumbourou JW, Dimsey L, Rowland B (2004)
Preventing harms associated with volatile substance abuse.
Melbourne: Australian Drug Foundation
View report
View website: DrugInfo Clearinghouse

2003

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2003)
Statistics on drug use in Australia 2002
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
View report (PDF - 601KB)
View website: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Department of Human Services (2003)
Management response to inhalant use: guidelines for the community care and drug and alcohol sector.
Melbourne: State Government of Victoria
View report (PDF - 591KB)
View website: Victorian Government Health Information

Phillips G (2003)
Addictions and healing in Aboriginal country.
Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press
View HealthBulletin book review

Select Committee on Substance Abuse in the Community (2003)
Interim report to the Committee Inquiry to date: issues of alcohol abuse, cannabis use and inhalant abuse.
Darwin: Select Committee on Substance Abuse in the Community, Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory
View report (PDF - 157KB)
View website: Northern Territory Government

Strempel P, Saggers S, Gray D, Stearne A (2003)
Indigenous drug and alcohol projects: elements of best practice.
Canberra: Australian National Council on Drugs
View report (PDF - 1.48MB - large file warning!)
View website: Australian National Council of Drugs

2002

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2002)
2001 National Drug Strategy Household Survey: detailed findings.
Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
View report (PDF - 628KB)
View website: 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
View HealthInfoNet abstract
View report (PDF - 264KB)
View website: Australian National Council of Drugs

Gray D, Sputore B, Stearne A, Bourbon D, Strempel P (2002)
Indigenous drug and alcohol projects 1999-2000.
Canberra: Australian National Council on Drugs.
View HealthInfoNet abstract
View report (PDF - 11.8MB - very large file warning)
View appendices (PDF - 7MB - large file warning!)
View briefing paper (PDF - 88KB)
View website: Australian National Council of Drugs

Parliament of Victoria, Drugs and Crime Prevention Committee (2002)
Inquiry into the inhalation of volatile substances, final report.
Melbourne: Drugs and Crime Prevention Committee
View report (PDF - 4.06MB - very large file warning!)
View website: Parliament of Victoria

Prior to 2002

Brady M (1992)
Heavy metal: the social meaning of petrol sniffing in Australia.
Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press
View book review: Aboriginal Studies Press
V iew sample: Chapter 1 (PDF - 883KB)
View website:  AIATSIS

d'Abbs P, MacLean S (2000)
Petrol sniffing in Aboriginal communities: a review of interventions.
Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal and Tropical Health, Casuarina, Northern Territory.
View 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.
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra.
View HealthInfoNet abstract

Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (nd)
Substance misuse service report: 1999-2000 key results.
Canberra: Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, Department of Health and Aged Care
View report (PDF - 617KB)
View website: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Youth Affairs Network of Queensland (nd)
Chroming and young people in Queensland.
Brisbane: Youth Affairs Network of Queensland
View report (PDF - 193KB)
View website: Pandora

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