Drugs and Public Health focuses on two key areas: an overview of existing practice responses to alcohol and other drug use, and the identification of emerging innovations in practice. This book studies the theory, evidence and context of existing and emerging alcohol and other drug practice and provides material that can be used in vocational and professional education, refresher training and the documentation and evaluation of best practice.
- Case studies give examples of innovative practices and how to convert learning into practice.
- Covers a wide range of drug types (alcohol, tobacco, heroin, ‘party drugs’), populations (youth, Indigenous Australians, injecting drug users) and areas of practice (prevention, harm reduction, community development, treatment, law enforcement).
- Considers the contexts – social, cultural, political, legal, and economic – that need to be addressed in innovative alcohol and other drug practice.
- Situates local alcohol and other drug practice and contexts in relation to national and international developments in practice.
1. The evolution of alcohol and other drug research, policy and practice in Australia
Part 1: Engaging Communities
2. Engaging the community in responding to alcohol-related problems
3. Faith, love and theory: Peer-led interventions for 'party drug' users
4. From platitudes to policies: The evolving response to volatile substance misuse in Australia
5. Changing workplace cultures: An integrated model for the prevention and treatment of alcohol-related problems
6. 20 years of primary health care: The Kirkton Road Centre
Part 2: Approaching Treatment
7. Everything old is new again: The application of drug treatment to the emerging challenge of methamphetamine use and dependence
8. Harm reduction for smokers: Targeting those who don’t quit
9. Patient-centredness and opioid substition
10. Drug Diversion: An intersection between law enforcement and public health approaches to the control of illicit drug use
11. Effective practice for young people experiencing alcohol and other drug-related harm
12. Dual diagnosis: Dual disorders or a dual system?
Part 3: Evolving Practice
13. ‘We are family’: ICON, a model for effective peer-based outreach targeting marginalised injecting drug users
14. Sex, drugs and an evening stroll: Community development through the arts
15. Supervised injecting facilities and the Sydney experience
Part 4: Translating Research
16. Working with windows: Translating drug research into drug policy
17. Working with the media on alcohol and other drug issues: The Australian experience
David Moore – Associate Professor, National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology
Paul Dietze – Principle Research Fellow, Centre for Epidemology and Population Health Research, Burnet Institute, and Associate Professor, Monash Institute for Health Services Research
