National Illicit Drug Indicators Project (NIDIP)

NDARC Staff

Lucy Burns and Amanda Roxburgh

Aims

Design and Method

To date NIDIP has identified a comprehensive range of data sources, and produced reviews of drug-related data indicators at a national level as well as within New South Wales. These indicators include: information on population patterns of drug use from national surveys, data on deaths due to drug overdoses, drug-related morbidity and drug treatment data, indicators of drug purity and seizures, and drug-related crime data. Analyses of these indicators are published on a regular basis. The project currently publishes bulletins on drug-related deaths and drug-related hospital presentations on annual basis on the NDARC website. These bulletins, along with reports and peer-reviewed journal articles aim to provide as comprehensive an overview as possible of trends in drug use and related harms in Australia over time.

Benefits

Output

Publications to arise from NIDIP to date are:

2008

Degenhardt, L. Roxburgh, A., van Beek, I., Hall, W., Mant, A., Robinson, M., and Ross, J. (2008) The effects of the market withdrawal of temazepam gel capsules on benzodiazepine injecting in Sydney, Australia. Drug and Alcohol Review, 27, 145-151.

Degenhardt, L., Roxburgh, A., Black, E., Bruno, R., Campbell, G., Kinner, S. and Fetherston, J. (2008) The epidemiology of methamphetamine use and harm in Australia (2008), Drug and Alcohol Review, 27 (3), 243-252.

Riddell, S., Shanahan, M., Degenhardt, L. and Roxburgh, A. (2008). Estimating the costs of drug-related hospital separations in Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 32 (2), 156-161.

Riddell, S., Shanahan, M., Degenhardt, L. and Roxburgh, A. (2008). A review of the use of US derived aetiological fractions in an Australian setting for antenatal problems related to cocaine use. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 32 (4), 393-394.

Roxburgh, A. and Degenhardt, L. (2008) Characteristics of drug-related hospital separations in Australia. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 92, 149-155.

2007

Degenhardt, L, Roxburgh, A. and McKetin, R. (2007). Hospital separations for drug-related psychotic episodes in Australia, 1993-2004 Medical Journal of Australia, 186, 342-345.

Riddell, S., Shanahan, M., Roxburgh, A. and Degenhardt, L. (2007). The cost of drug-related hospital stays in Australia, 1999-2005. NDARC Technical Report Number 285. Sydney, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre University of New South Wales.

Degenhardt, L., Hall, W. D., Roxburgh, A., & Mattick, R. P. (2007). UK classification of cannabis: is a change needed and why? Lancet, 370(9598), 1541-1541.

Degenhardt, L. & Roxburgh, A. (2007). 2005 Cocaine and methamphetamine related drug-induced deaths in Australia. Sydney: National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre.

Degenhardt, L. & Roxburgh, A. (2007). Accidental drug-induced deaths due to opioids in Australia, 2005. Sydney: National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre.

2006

Degenhardt, L., Roxburgh, A., Black, E., & Dunn, M. (2006). Accidental drug-induced deaths due to opioids in Australia, 2004. Sydney: National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre.

Degenhardt, L., Roxburgh, A., Black, E. and Dunn, M. (2006). 2004 cocaine and amphetamine related drug-induced deaths in Australia. Sydney: National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre.

Roxburgh, A. and Degenhardt, L. (2006) Hospital stays related to illicit drugs in Australia, 1993-2004. NDARC Technical Report Number 261. Sydney National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre University of New South Wales.

Roxburgh, A. & Degenhardt, L. (2006). Drug-related hospital stays in Australia, 1993-2005. Sydney: National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre.

Degenhardt, L, Black, E., Breen, C., Bruno, R., Kinner, S., Roxburgh, A., Fry, C., Jenkinson, R., Ward, J., Fetherston, J., Weekley, J. and Fischer, J. (2006) Trends in morphine prescriptions, illicit morphine use and associated harms among regular injecting drug users in Australia, Drug and Alcohol Review, 25, 5, 403-412.

2005

Jauncey, M., Taylor, L., & Degenhardt, L. (2005). Classification of opioid-induced deaths in Australia: Implications for surveillance, Drug and Alcohol Review 24, 401-409.

Barker, B., Conroy, E., Degenhardt, L., Kimber, J., & Dolan, K. (2005). Global indicators for monitoring the illicit drug environment in NSW: Catalogue of datasets and data sources. Sydney: National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre.

Degenhardt, L. & Dietze, P. (2005). Data sources on illicit drug use and harm in Australia. Melbourne: Turning Point Inc.

Degenhardt, L., Knox, S., Barker, B., Britt, H., & Shakeshaft, A. (2005) The management of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug use problems by general practitioners in Australia. Drug and Alcohol Review 24, 499-506.

Degenhardt, L, Roxburgh, A, & Barker, B. (2005) Underlying causes of cocaine, amphetamine and opioid-related deaths in Australia, Journal of Clinical Forensic Medicine, 12, 187-195.

2004

Degenhardt, L., Barker, B. & Topp, L. (2004). Patterns of ecstasy use in Australia: findings from a national household survey. Addiction 99, 187-195.

Breen, C, Degenhardt, L., Bruno, R., Roxburgh, A and Jenkinson, R. (2004) The effects of restricting publicly subsidised temazepam capsules on benzodiazepine use among injecting drug users in Australia, Medical Journal of Australia, 181(6): 300-305.

Degenhardt, L., Roxburgh, A. & Black, E. (2004). Cocaine and amphetamine mentions in accidental drug-induced deaths in Australia, 1997-2003. Sydney: National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre.

Topp, L. Barker, B. & Degenhardt, L. (2004). The external validity of results derived from ecstasy users recruited using purposive sampling strategies. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 73, 33-40.

Degenhardt, L., Roxburgh, A. & Black, E. (2004). 2003 Australian Bureau of Statistics data on accidental opioid induced deaths. Sydney: National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre.

2003

Barker, B., Degenhardt, L. & Breen, C. (2003). Indicators of drug use and treatment in Australia: Preliminary findings from the National Illicit Drug Indicators Project. Sydney: National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre.

Barker, B. & Degenhardt, L. (2003). Cross-national comparisons of drug-induced deaths. Sydney: National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre.

Barker, B. & Degenhardt, L. (2003) Accidental drug-induced deaths in Australia, 1997-2001. Technical Report No. 163. Sydney: National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre.

Barker, B. & Degenhardt, L. (2003) Accidental and suicidal drug-induced deaths in Australia 1997-2001. Technical Report No. 164. Sydney: National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre

Roxburgh, A. (2003). Family Drug Support: Analysis of calls made to the Family Drug Support telephone service April 2000 to November 2002.Sydney: National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre.

Degenhardt, L. & Barker, B. (2003). 2002 Australian Bureau of Statistics data on accidental opioid induced deaths. Sydney: National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre.

Degenhardt, L. & Barker, B. (2003). Investigating trends in cocaine and methamphetamine mentions in accidental drug-induced deaths in Australia 1997-2002. Sydney: National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre.

Funding

Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing