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Report A: Letter from the Chairperson, Membership, Terms of Reference, Glossary and Acronyms Report B: Executive Summary and ecommendations: 1. Introduction 2. Trends in the Use of Illicit Drugs in the Northern Territory 3. Prevention 4. Drug Treatment in the Northern Territory. Report C: 5. Treatment - The Role and Practical Application of Pharmacotherapies 6. Priority Groups Appendix A - Illicit Drug Taskforce Consultation Report Appendix B - Summary of Submissions to Taskforce Appendix C - Current Services and Strategies ; The formation of the Taskforce on Illicit Drugs was announced by the Minister for Health and Community Services, Jane Aagaard MLA, in November 2001. It was established to advise the Government on strategies to try to stop the harmful spread of drugs, to break the cycle of crime and to help users and their families on the road to better health.

Report A: Letter from the Chairperson, Membership, Terms of Reference, Glossary and Acronyms Report B: Executive Summary and ecommendations: 1. Introduction 2. Trends in the Use of Illicit Drugs in the Northern Territory 3. Prevention 4. Drug Treatment in the Northern Territory. Report C: 5. Treatment - The Role and Practical Application of Pharmacotherapies 6. Priority Groups Appendix A - Illicit Drug Taskforce Consultation Report Appendix B - Summary of Submissions to Taskforce Appendix C - Current Services and Strategies ; The formation of the Taskforce on Illicit Drugs was announced by the Minister for Health and Community Services, Jane Aagaard MLA, in November 2001. It was established to advise the Government on strategies to try to stop the harmful spread of drugs, to break the cycle of crime and to help users and their families on the road to better health. ; Date:2001

Report A: Letter from the Chairperson, Membership, Terms of Reference, Glossary and Acronyms Report B: Executive Summary and ecommendations: 1. Introduction 2. Trends in the Use of Illicit Drugs in the Northern Territory 3. Prevention 4. Drug Treatment in the Northern Territory. Report C: 5. Treatment - The Role and Practical Application of Pharmacotherapies 6. Priority Groups Appendix A - Illicit Drug Taskforce Consultation Report Appendix B - Summary of Submissions to Taskforce Appendix C - Current Services and Strategies ; The formation of the Taskforce on Illicit Drugs was announced by the Minister for Health and Community Services, Jane Aagaard MLA, in November 2001. It was established to advise the Government on strategies to try to stop the harmful spread of drugs, to break the cycle of crime and to help users and their families on the road to better health.

Injecting drug use is of major concern to both Western and developing nations, causing extensive associated harm at both individual and public health levels. This book provides readers with authoritative and practical information on injecting drug use and the health consequences of this behaviour. Includes topical issues such as needle fixation, transitions to and from injecting, and illicit drug use in prison settings. Documents the relationship between injecting practice and infectious diseases, such as HIV and hepatitis C. Explores harm reduction approaches such as safer injecting and super

Illicit drugs and their use are now, more than ever, a dominant concern of politicians, policy makers and the general public. Often, our understandings of the 'drug problem' tend to be uni-dimensional and based around particular areas of risk: drug related crime, dependency and ill-health. This book moves beyond this single issue approach and locates illicit drug use in its wider context, with chapters on:the history of illicit drug use measuring the 'problem'legal and medical responses to illicit drug usethe illicit drugs marketdrugs, crime and trends in drug policy.Drawing information from w

chapter 1. Drugs : a definition -- chapter 2. Alcohol -- chapter 3. Tobacco -- chapter 4. Illicit drugs -- chapter 5. Alcohol, tobacco, illicit drugs, and youth -- chapter 6. Drug treatment -- chapter 7. How alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drug use affect economics and government -- chapter 8. Drug trafficking -- chapter 9. Antidrug efforts and their criticisms.

Despite extensive treatment and prevention programs for illicit drug use, little is known about people's reasons for abstaining from substances and about the factors affecting their reasons. Therefore, a random community sample and snowball sample of poly drug users (1190 adults) were asked to give their reasons for abstaining from a wide range of substances. Contrary to common belief, (a) the individuals highest in experience-with-illicit-drugs are most likely to abstain from prescription and illicit drugs because of health concerns, and (b) the reasons given by the most experienced individuals for illicit drugs are similar to those given by the least experienced for common, licit substances. Disapproval of others, illegality, and dependence potential tend to be unimportant reasons. Implications of these and other results for treatment and prevention strategies are discussed.

In the 1980s and 1990s vulnerable people worldwide have suffered assaults on their basic survival and civilized existence. Ethnic upheavals have convulsed the former Yugoslavia and new republics of the former USSR. The struggles have produced human tragedies beyond calculation in Rwanda. Political terrorists have operated freely in some Latin American, Middle Eastern, and Asian countries. Hunger, disease, ethnic strife, and praetorian governments continue to stalk much of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Economic restructuring has marginalized citizens of some countries, placing people even further below already abysmal poverty lines. Families and civilized social values continue to disintegrate in the inner cities of the United States of America where income disparities between the poor and everyone else are increasing, threatening to create an underclass extending well beyond current geographical confines.