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Preventing drug and alcohol-related crime - practical guides

• For local government, practitioners and community groups
• For licensed venues
• Safe partying
• Drink spiking

For local government, practitioners and community groups

• Reducing drug use, reducing offending : are programmes for problem drug-using offenders in the UK supported by the evidence? (PDF 531kB)
  UK Drug Policy Commission, London : UK Drug Policy Commission. 2008
• Alcohol related crime toolkit
  Crime Reduction (UK)
• 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
• Communities against drugs toolkit
  Crime Reduction (UK)
• Community drug action
  New South Wales Communitybuilders
• Local government toolkit
  Drug Info Clearinghouse
• Had enough? Alcohol-related violence and crime - what you and your community can do about it
  New South Wales Health Department
• Strategies to prevent community alcohol-related problems : bar areas (PDF 145kB)
  Janet McAllister. Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (UK)

For licensed venues

• Preventing bar violence
  Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice, Crime prevention service
• Safer clubbing: guidance for licensing authorities, club managers and promoters (PDF 996kB)
  Russell Webster, Mike Goodman and Grainne Whalley, Home Office (UK), 2002

Safe partying

• Safer celebrations: a planning guide for event managers in NSW
  NSW Drug Programs Bureau
• Safer clubbing: guidance for licensing authorities, club managers and promoters (PDF 996kB)
  Russell Webster, Mike Goodman and Grainne Whalley, Home Office (UK), 2002
• Safe party information kit
  City of Monash, Victoria
• Safe party pack and checklist
  New South Wales Police Service

Drink spiking

• Drink spiking: why it's not funny - factsheet for young people
  Drug Info Clearinghouse
• Drink spiking - factsheet for workers
  Drug Info Clearinghouse
• Drink spiking: watch yourself, watch your friends (PDF 175kB)
  New Zealand Police

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