Australian Drug Trends 2007: Findings from the Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS)

Emma Black, Amanda Roxburgh, Louisa Degenhardt, Raimondo Bruno, Gabrielle Campbell, Barbara de Graaff, James Fetherston, Stuart A. Kinner, Chris Moon, Brendan Quinn,

Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland) · 2008 · 73 citations · 3 references

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Abstract

identifying emerging trends of local and national concern in illicit drug markets. The IDRS consists of three components: interviews with a sentinel group of people who regularly inject drugs (PWID; also known as injecting drug users; IDU1), conducted in the capital cities of Australia; interviews with key experts (KE), professionals who have regular contact with illicit drug users through their work; and analysis and examination of indicator data sources related to illicit drugs. Australian Drug Trends 2007 draws largely on the IDU Survey and indicator data components of the IDRS, while key expert data are relied upon to provide contextual information within jurisdictions. As such, this information is reported more fully in the individual state/territory reports, to which the reader is also referred.

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