Drug use represents a significant burden to public health through disease, disability and
social problems, and policy makers are becoming increasingly interested in how to develop …

Armed conflicts often constitute 'complex emergencies', defined as situations affecting large
civilian populations which combine war or civil strife with food shortages and population …

A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent means of altering ordinary
waking consciousness, this book is the first to provide the big picture of the discovery …

Cocaine examines the rise and fall of this notorious substance from its legitimate use by
scientists and medics in the nineteenth century to the international prohibitionist regimes …

A new edition of the landmark pharmacology textbook for health science students in
Australia and New Zealand The third edition of Pharmacology for Health Professionals …

Substance use and abuse are two of the most frequent psychological problems clinicians
encounter. Mainstream approaches focus on the biological and psychological factors …

Aims. To present the prevalence of substance use and ICD‐10 substance use disorders in
the adult Australian population using data from the National Survey of Mental Health and …

The vast majority of research on drug dealers focuses on men, while most studies on women
in the drug economy focus on subordinated drug users. We know very little about attributes …

Why do women become drug dealers? Are they simply attempting to finance their own
addictions or are the reasons more complex? This unique book reveals a surprisingly …

Between 1996 and 2000, heroin was the drug most frequently injected in Australia, and
viable heroin markets existed in six of Australia's eight jurisdictions. In 2001, there was a …