Publication
Publication table of contents
- Introduction
- Drug diversion programs in Australia
- Diversion and drug treatment services
- Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services National Minimum Data Set
- Are diversion clients a distinct client group among AOD clients?
- Are diversion clients different from non-diversion clients?
- Demographics
- Treatment episodes
- Are there differences between clients subject to police diversion and to court diversion?
- Overlap between police and court diversion
- Demographics
- Treatment episodes
- Key issues for diversion policy
- Data quality issues
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- References
- More information and related publications
Notes and corrections
- (23Sep2015) Summary updated: Number and % of clients (under first and third bold points); % of non-diversion episodes for alcohol (under fourth bold point).
Diversion and drug treatment services section updated: Number and % of treatment episodes for clients referred from police or court diversion programs (third paragraph).
Are diversion clients a distinct client group among AOD clients? section updated: Number and % of clients (first paragraph).
Are diversion clients different from non-diversion clients? section updated: % of non-diversion client episodes involving alcohol (second sentence); numbers and % for non-diversion treatment episodes (first paragraph); % of non-diversion episodes that ceased due to expiation (third paragraph).
Are there differences between clients subject to police diversion and to court diversion? section updated: % of clients receiving treatment not related to diversion (second paragraph).
Demographics section updated: % diversions clients aged under 30 (first paragraph); % male police diversion clients (second paragraph).
Figures 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 revised.
Previous version: Alcohol and other drug treatment and diversion from the Australian criminal justice system: 2012-13 (1.4MB PDF)
Previous version: Tables S1 to S16 supplementary tables (107KB XLS)