Summary
Statistics on Drug Use in Australia 1998 follows the format of past reports in this series. Chapters are provided for each of the drug types covered by the NDS: tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs. Within these chapters descriptive data on consumption and, to a lesser extent, drug-related behaviours are presented. New and revised chapters cover evaluations, special population groups, drug-related health, and crime and law enforcement.
It is intended as an accessible summary of major drug-use statistical collections which will lead interested readers to sources of more detailed information. The chapter on total pharmaceutical use is provided as context for the information on non-medical use of pharmaceuticals.
Preliminary material: List of tables; List of figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations
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Introduction
- Background
- About this report
- Data sources
- Overview of drug use in Australia
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The National Drug Strategy
- Background
- Evaluation of the National Drug Strategy 1993 - 97
- National Drug Strategic Framework 1998 - 99 to 2002 - 03
- Performance indicators
- Evaluation, monitoring and reporting
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Tobacco
- Overview
- Consumption
- Patterns of use
- Economics
- Support for measures to reduce smoking
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Alcohol
- Overview
- Apparent consumption
- Patterns of use
- Economics
- Support for measures to reduce alcohol consumption
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Illicit drug use
- Overview
- Opportunity to use drugs
- Use of illicit drugs
- Trends in illicit drug use
- Attitudes to drug use
- Support for legalisation of illicit drugs
- Support for harm reduction measures
- Support for increased penalties for supplying illicit drugs
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Pharmaceutical products
- Background
- Top ten prescription medicines
- Community prescriptions for major drug groups
- DDDs for drugs affecting the nervous system
- Top five analgesics
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Special population groups
- Overview
- Young people
- Indigenous people
- People born overseas
- Australian-born non-Indigenous people
- Pregnancy, breastfeeding and drug use
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Drugs and health
- Mortality and morbidity
- Injecting drug use and communicable diseases
- Perception of the effects of drugs on health
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Treatment services
- Background
- Methadone treatment services
- Participation in a drug-related treatment program
- Clients of Treatment Service Agencies census
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Crime and law enforcement
- Overview
- Experience of alcohol- or other drug-related violence or crime
- Illicit drug arrests
- Prisoners
Appendixes
- Appendix 1: Drug legislation
- Appendix 2: Major datasets
End matter: References