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Preventing drug and alcohol-related crime - research and initiatives

• Licensed venues
• Drink spiking
• Liquor restrictions
• Policing
• Drink/drug driving
• Other initiatives, by state/territory

• The avoidable costs of alcohol abuse in Australia and the potential benefits of effective policies to reduce the social costs of alcohol (PDF 264kB)
  David J Collins and Helen M Lapsley, Department of Health and Ageing. 2008
• Australian local government: alcohol harm minimisation projects - a good practice guide (PDF 285kB)
  Trevor King and Jennifer Richards. Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre, 2003  

Licensed venues

• Alcohol and licensed premises : best practice policing (PDF 1.12MB)
  National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund, 2003
• Liquor accords
  Office of Liquor, Gaming and Racing, New South Wales

Drink spiking

• Efforts to prevent drink spiking
  Natalie Taylor, Jeremy Prichard and Kate Charlton. Chapter from the report, National project on drink spiking : investigating the nature and extent of drink spiking in Australia, 2004
• "Spiked drinks" initiatives in NSW: drug/alcohol facilitated sexual assault (PDF 58kB)
  Jennifer Huxley and Jillian Meyers-Brittain. Presented at "Seeking Solutions": Australia's inaugural domestic violence & sexual assault conference, 2001

Liquor restrictions

• An evaluation of liquor licensing restrictions in the Western Australian community of Port Hedland (PDF 497kB)
  Richard Midford, Deidra Young, Denese Playford, Elaine Kite, Tanya Chikritzhs, Richard Pascal. National Drug Research Institute, 2005
• Banning the bottle - liquor bans in New Zealand (PDF 249kB)
  Michael Webb. Third Australasian Drug Strategy Conference, 2004
• Monitoring the Adelaide dry area (PDF 1.7MB)
  Nichole Hunter, Judy Harvey, Bev O'Brien, Joy Wundersitz. South Australia Office of Crime Statistics and Research, 2004

Policing

• Police powers and VSM : a review : responding to volatile substance misuse (PDF 2.82MB)
  Queensland Crime and Misconduct Commission, 2005
• The role of police in preventing and minimising illicit drug use and its harms (PDF 884kB)
  Catherine Spooner, Mark McPherson and Wayne Hall. National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund, 2004
• Alcohol and licensed premises : best practice policing (PDF 1.12MB)
  National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund, 2003
• Police powers and drug law enforcement in NSW
  Gareth Griffith. New South Wales Parliamentary Library, 2001

Drink/drug driving

• Drink rite project
  Queensland Police Service

Other initiatives, by state/territory

• ACT
• NSW
• NT
• Qld
• SA
• Vic
• WA

Australian Capital Territory

• Alcohol, tobacco and other drug strategy 2010-2014
  ACT Health

New South Wales

• Evaluation of the impact of Drug Summit initiatives in two NSW regions
  Katie Willis, 2002
• Community drug action
• New South Wales Drug Summit 1999

Northern Territory

• Illicit drugs taskforce report
  Taskforce on Illicit Drugs, Northern Territory
• Living with alcohol program
  Northern Territory Department of Health and Community Services
• Living with alcohol in the Northern Territory
  Ian Crundall, Research and Evaluation Co-ordinator, Living With Alcohol Program

Queensland

• Police powers and VSM : a review : responding to volatile substance misuse (PDF 2.82MB)
  Queensland Crime and Misconduct Commission, 2005
• Protecting the future - illicit drug action plan 2003/04-2006/07 (PDF 350kB)
  Queensland Government
• Community crime prevention and alcohol and drug issues in Mackay
  John Mallett. Crime prevention conference, 2002
• 'Two steps forward, two steps back; circle to the left and promenade' Community crime prevention and drug-related issues in Mackay
  John Mallet. The character, impact and prevention of crime in regional Australia conference, 2001

South Australia

• The alcohol, drugs and crime working group: a partnership which has survived
  David Watts. Partnerships in crime prevention conference, 1998

Victoria

• Drug and alcohol issues in Bayside: draft research report for public comment (PDF 576kB)
  Greg Rumbold, Centre for Applied Drug and Alcohol Research, Monash University. Report prepared for Bayside City Council, 2003
• Drug action
  City of Greater Dandenong Council
• Drug Policy Expert Committee, Victoria
• The Gippsland anti-violence project: research in progress
  Arthur Veno. Partnerships in crime prevention conference, 1998

Western Australia

• Enough is enough
  An alcohol education program that aims to reduce the problems associated with drunkenness in the community
• Prevention Branch
  Western Australia Drug and Alcohol Office
• Publications
  Western Australia Drug and Alcohol Office
• Community partnerships in the WA: Strategy Against Drug Abuse - reducing the risk factors in local communities
  Terry Murph, Reducing criminality - partnerships and best practice conference, 31 July-1 August 2000

Recent publications

• Amphetamine users and crime in Western Australia, 1999–2009
  16 June 2012
• How much crime is drug or alcohol related? Self-reported attributions of police detainees
  24 May 2012
• 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

Recent events

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