| Description |
44 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm |
| Series |
Issues in society ; v. 94 |
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Issues in society (Balmain, N.S.W.) ; v. 94
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| Contents |
Chapter 1. The War on Drugs: Drugs in Australia; Illicit drugs: a $400 billion industry; Push for tougher drug penalties; The drug war: an exercise in futility; When every path is littered with problems; No quick fix for drug epidemic; Tribulations of a drug dealer's mother; Just say zero: the $87m war on drugs; Drug definitions and the effects of use. -- Chapter 2. Drug Usage: Is it futile to ban drugs in sport?; Friends are foe in youth drugs war; How old is a typical Australian alcohol or drug user?; Crusaders take drug war back to its 'innocuous' beginnings; Heroin habit hits at 16 for starters; Heroin toll hits record 620 after 25pc jump; Intravenous drug users dispel junkie stereotype; Snapshot of a user; Cannabis addictive, depressing, distressing; Profile of a long-term cannabis user; Ecstasy users getting younger. -- Chapter 3. Harm Minimisation: Drug prohibition: a call for change; Salvos reject relaxed drug laws; The Salvation Army Bridge Program; Overdosed and uninformed; Rapid heroin detoxification; Methadone hit and myths; Families and Friends for Drug Law Reform.; Children who w |
| Summary |
What are the effects & risks involved in using drugs such as amphetamines, ecstasy & cocaine? The heroin debate - how should addiction be treated - as a health, legal & economic issue? What are the arguments for & against controlled, legalised heroin trials & 'shooting galleries'? Is current drug education effective? |
| Analysis |
Drug use and abuse |
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Federal issue |
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Harm reduction |
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Law reform |
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Rehabilitation services |
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Social conditions |
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Treatment |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: page42 |
| Audience |
Secondary and tertiary students |
| Subject |
Drug abuse -- Social aspects -- Australia.
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Drug abuse -- Social aspects.
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Drug abuse -- Australia.
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Drug legalization -- Australia.
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Drug use -- Australia
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| Author |
Healey, Kaye.
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| LC no. |
dup98000399 |
| ISBN |
187681103X |
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