Table of contents

  • Preliminary material 
    • Title page and verso
    • Contents
    • Preface
    • List of tables
    • List of figures
    • Summary
    • Acknowledgements
    • Abbreviations
  • Sections
    1. Introduction 
      1. National Drug Strategy
      2. The National Drug Strategic Framework 1998-99 to 2003-04
      3. Background
      4. About this report
      5. Data sources
    2. Tobacco 
      1. Introduction
      2. Apparent consumption trends
      3. Reported consumption trends
      4. Consumption by age and sex
      5. Government revenue
    3. Alcohol 
      1. Introduction
      2. Apparent consumption trends
      3. Reported consumption trends
      4. Consumption by age and sex
      5. Risk of alcohol-related harm in the long term
      6. Risk of alcohol-related harm in the short term
      7. Government revenue
    4. Illicit drug use 
      1. Introduction
      2. Measures of illicit drug use
      3. National trends
      4. Marijuana/cannabis use
    5. Pharmaceutical products 
      1. Introduction
      2. Top 10 prescription medicines
      3. Community prescriptions for major drug groups
      4. Drugs affecting the central nervous system
    6. International comparisons 
      1. Introduction
      2. Tobacco
      3. Alcohol
      4. Illicit drugs
    7. Drugs and health 
      1. Introduction
      2. Mortality and morbidity
      3. Injecting drug use and communicable disease
      4. Overdoses
      5. Fatal road accidents related to alcohol use
    8. Special population groups
      1. Introduction
      2. Young people
      3. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
      4. People living in rural and remote areas
      5. Persons of a non-English-speaking background
      6. Older people
      7. Pregnant or breastfeeding women
      8. Homeless people
      9. Injecting drug users
    9. Treatment Services 
      1. Introduction
      2. Alcohol and other drug treatment services
      3. Clients of treatment service agencies
      4. Substance use services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
    10. Crime and law enforcement 
      1. Introduction
      2. Illicit drug offences
      3. Drug use and criminal offending
      4. Illicit drug detections
    11. Polydrug use 
      1. Introduction
      2. Polydrug use and tobacco
      3. Polydrug use and alcohol
      4. Polydrug use and marijuana/cannabis
      5. Polydrug use and amphetamine-type substances
    12. Drug avoidance and moderation
      1. Introduction
      2. Avoidance of cigarette smoke
      3. Smoking moderation behaviours
      4. Alcohol reduction behaviours
      5. Alcohol moderation behaviours
      6. Participation in drug treatment programs
  • End matter
    • Appendixes
      • Appendix A: Confidence Intervals
    • References and further reading
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