| Description |
1 online resource (28 pages) : color illustrations |
| Series |
ASPI special report, 2200-6648 |
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Special report (Australian Strategic Policy Institute) 2200-6648
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| Contents |
Foreword. -- Executive summary. -- The problem. -- Crystal methamphetamine and its users. -- Lessons from the Australian heroin epidemic. -- Lessons from Ottawa. -- Strategies, models and economics of rehabilitation. -- Towards a new ice strategy. -- Concluding remarks. -- Notes. -- Acronyms and abbreviations |
| Summary |
Australia's seemingly unquenchable thirst for crystal methamphetamine has created a major social, health and law enforcement challenge for all levels of government and the bureaucracy. The traditional programmatic approach to counter illicit drugs, with its multipronged health, education and law enforcement strategies, has failed to prevent the problem or address it in any meaningful way. This special report outlines and discusses an alternative strategic framework to respond to the Australian ice challenge. In this strategy, law enforcement isn't focused on arrests, prosecutions, custodial offences or seizures, as none of those will have a guaranteed impact on the problem. The focus is on means to reduce the availability of drugs, the disruption of user behaviour and the integration of education and health initiatives |
| Notes |
"October 2015." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ASPI, viewed January 23, 2016) |
| Subject |
Drug control -- Australia
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Methamphetamine -- Government policy -- Australia
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Drug control.
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Australia.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
White, Vern, author
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Alvarez, Cesar, author
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Australian Strategic Policy Institute, publisher.
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