This article describes the results of a systematic review of drug law enforcement evaluations.
The authors describe the search procedures and document the results in five main …

This paper provides a reflective account of the different disciplinary approaches to studying
illicit drug markets. The term 'drug market'is used widely in illicit drug research, and means …

Aims To examine the effects of supply‐side drug law enforcement on the dynamics of the
Australian heroin market and the harms associated with heroin. Setting Around Christmas …

Estimating mortality directly attributable to illicit drug use such as overdose death—the most
tangible adverse heath effect of illicit drug use—is difficult because of variations in the …

This article draws on personal and professional experience to provide a reflexive and
personalised account of a longstanding ethnographic engagement with injecting drug use …

This study is a qualitative exploration of two distinctive high-profile street drug markets in
Sydney, Australia. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 32 street-level heroin …

Aims In this paper we outline and evaluate competing explanations for a heroin shortage
that occurred in Australia during 2001 with an abrupt onset at the beginning of 2001 …

Methamphetamine (MA) use is associated with hostility, aggression, and positive psychotic
symptoms. However, little is known of the processes or mechanisms that underlie this …

In this Harm Reduction Digest Paul Dietze and John Fitzgerald provide another possible
way of understanding what has come to be referred to as Australia's heroin 'drought'. They …

The present report is one of a series of studies conducted by the NSW Bureau of Crime
Statistics and Research evaluating the NSW Drug Court trial. Other reports in this series …