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released: 20 Feb 2003 author: AIHW media release

'Statistics on Drug Use in Australia 2002' is the tenth in a series originally titled Statistics on Drug Abuse in Australia. The report provides a comprehensive summary of major drug use statistical collections, with references to sources of more detailed information. Data represented on patterns of drug use (including trends and attitudes to use), international comparisons, drugs and health, special population groups, crime and law enforcement, polydrug use and drug avoidance and moderation. New to this edition is a chapter on treatment services and data describing drug use by police detainees and drug use and drug-related offences by male prisoners. This report and others in the Drug Statistics Series are useful resources for policy-makers, planners and researchers interested in drug-related matters.

ISSN 1442 7230; ISBN 978 1 74024 240 0; Cat. no. PHE 43; 113pp.; OUT OF PRINT

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Publication table of contents

  • Preliminary material (197K PDF)
    • Title page and verso
    • Contents
    • Preface
    • List of tables
    • List of figures
    • Summary
    • Acknowledgements
    • Abbreviations
  • Sections
    1. Introduction (101K PDF)
      1. National Drug Strategy
      2. The National Drug Strategic Framework 1998-99 to 2003-04
      3. Background
      4. About this report
      5. Data sources
    2. Tobacco (140K PDF)
      1. Introduction
      2. Apparent consumption trends
      3. Reported consumption trends
      4. Consumption by age and sex
      5. Government revenue
    3. Alcohol (137K PDF)
      1. Introduction
      2. Apparent consumption trends
      3. Reported consumption trends
      4. Consumption by age and sex
      5. Risk of alcohol-related harm in the long term
      6. Risk of alcohol-related harm in the short term
      7. Government revenue
    4. Illicit drug use (135K PDF)
      1. Introduction
      2. Measures of illicit drug use
      3. National trends
      4. Marijuana/cannabis use
    5. Pharmaceutical products (129K PDF)
      1. Introduction
      2. Top 10 prescription medicines
      3. Community prescriptions for major drug groups
      4. Drugs affecting the central nervous system
    6. International comparisons (131K PDF)
      1. Introduction
      2. Tobacco
      3. Alcohol
      4. Illicit drugs
    7. Drugs and health (165K PDF)
      1. Introduction
      2. Mortality and morbidity
      3. Injecting drug use and communicable disease
      4. Overdoses
      5. Fatal road accidents related to alcohol use
    8. Special population groups (163K PDF)
      1. Introduction
      2. Young people
      3. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
      4. People living in rural and remote areas
      5. Persons of a non-English-speaking background
      6. Older people
      7. Pregnant or breastfeeding women
      8. Homeless people
      9. Injecting drug users
    9. Treatment Services (142K PDF)
      1. Introduction
      2. Alcohol and other drug treatment services
      3. Clients of treatment service agencies
      4. Substance use services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
    10. Crime and law enforcement (239K PDF)
      1. Introduction
      2. Illicit drug offences
      3. Drug use and criminal offending
      4. Illicit drug detections
    11. Polydrug use (125K PDF)
      1. Introduction
      2. Polydrug use and tobacco
      3. Polydrug use and alcohol
      4. Polydrug use and marijuana/cannabis
      5. Polydrug use and amphetamine-type substances
    12. Drug avoidance and moderation (128K PDF)
      1. Introduction
      2. Avoidance of cigarette smoke
      3. Smoking moderation behaviours
      4. Alcohol reduction behaviours
      5. Alcohol moderation behaviours
      6. Participation in drug treatment programs
  • End matter (95K PDF)
    • Appendixes
      • Appendix A: Confidence Intervals
    • References and further reading

Recommended citation

AIHW 2003. Statistics on drug use in Australia 2002. Drug Statistics Series no. 12. Cat. no. PHE 43. Canberra: AIHW.