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Illicit drugs

Drugs and crime do mix, as many people apprehended for criminal offences have been found to use drugs frequently. The AIC examines and monitors trends such as this and looks at a range of issues such as the effectiveness of drug law enforcement, drug driving and harm reduction strategies. It makes its findings available through publications, regular reports and conferences.  The AIC website offers links to helpful advice on preventing drug and alcohol related crime whether at bars, parties or in the broader community.

This section aims to disseminate quality information on alcohol and illicit drug use and related behaviours in Australia. The AIC's role in this area includes monitoring drug use, undertaking research and providing information on the link between criminal activity and alcohol and illicit drugs.

See also: Drug courts

Contents

• Illicit drug data report
• AIC conferences and presentations
• Australian responses to illicit drugs: pre-court diversion
• Links between illicit drug use and crime
• Policing and law enforcement activity
• Harm reduction strategies
• International and overseas responses
• Links
• Australian drug trends : findings of the Illicit Drug Reporting System
• Other documents, reports and papers
• Preventing drug and alcohol-related crime - practical guides
• Preventing drug and alcohol-related crime - research and initiatives
• National Drug Strategy

Recent publications

• Drug use monitoring in Australia: 2009–10 report on drug use among police detainees
  11 March 2012
• Decrease in use of ecstasy/MDMA
  20 February 2012
• Increase in use of methamphetamine
  03 November 2011
• Poly drug use among police detainees
  19 August 2011
• Patterns of mephedrone, GHB, Ketamine and Rohypnol use among police detainees
  31 May 2011
• Measuring the effectiveness of drug law enforcement
  04 February 2011
• Drug use monitoring in Australia: 2008 annual report on drug use among police detainees
  18 February 2010
• Women, drug use and crime: findings from the Drug Use Monitoring in Australia program
  01 April 2009
• Fake ecstasy
  16 September 2008
• Drug use monitoring in Australia : 2007 annual report on drug use among police detainees
  01 September 2008
• Drug driving in Australia
  17 June 2008
• Drug-related crime : evidence from the National Drug Strategy Household Survey
  03 June 2008
• Homelessness, drug use and offending
  15 April 2008
• Clandestine drug laboratories in Australia
  30 October 2007
• Global seizures of amphetamine-type stimulants
  21 August 2007

Recent events

• Medical prescriptions of heroin and neighbourhood risks
  27 May 2010
• Inhalant Use and Disorder
  07 July 2003