Illicit drugs and alcohol

Preventing drug and alcohol-related crime - practical guides

• For local government, practitioners and community groups
• For licensed venues
• For businesses
• Program evaluation
• Drug education
• 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
• Cities without drugs : the 'major cities' guide to reducing substance abuse in your community (PDF 618kB)
  Office of National Drug Control Policy (US), 2005
• 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 (PDF 824kB)
  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

For businesses

• Business responding to illegal drugs in the City of Melbourne 2000: handbook of practical strategies (PDF 1.6MB)
  City of Melbourne Council, Victoria
• A guide for business : practical ideas for responding to illicit drugs (PDF 118kB)
  Frankston City Council, Victoria

Program evaluation

• Guide to evaluating drug prevention projects in Victoria
  Premier's Drug Prevention Council, November 2002

Drug education

• Enough is enough
  An West Australian alcohol education program

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