National Illicit Drug Indicators Project (NIDIP)
NIDIP was established in the recognition that there was a greater need for the regular dissemination of trends in the epidemiology of drug-related harms in Australia.
Project Status:
Current
Drug policy
Australian police diversion for cannabis offences: Assessing program outcomes and cost effectiveness
Police diversion is one of Australia’s most utilised interventions for drug offenders. Yet fuelled in large part by methodological deficits there remain key gaps in knowledge about the outcomes and the cost-effectiveness of such approaches.
Project Status:
Completed
Review of the drug and alcohol prevention and treatment services sector
This project sought to clarify Australian drug and alcohol treatment funding; current and future service needs; the gap between met and unmet demand; and planning and funding processes for the future.
This project aimed to deliver:
Project Status:
Completed
Alcohol consumption and health inequalities - the role of alcohol policy
Alcohol-related harms contribute substantially to the burden of disease in Australia, with a wide range of acute and chronic consequences associated with alcohol consumption.
Project Status:
Completed
Drunk, high or sober: How do alcohol and illicit drug prices affect young Australians' plans for Saturday night?
Many young people regard alcohol and illicit drugs as part of the repertoire of products that facilitate socialising through intoxication. This has become a pressing public policy issue because the practice costs society dearly.
Project Status:
Completed
Tracking cocaine trends in Australia
There is growing law enforcement evidence that, in comparison with the period spanning 2002-03 to 2006-07, the supply of cocaine to Australia is relatively high (Hughes, Chalmers et al., 2011).
Project Status:
Completed
Treatment pathways from the client’s perspective: informing a better match between service provision and service need
The NSW Ministry of Health is leading a project to develop a national population based model for drug and alcohol service planning, known as the National Drug and Alcohol Clinical Care and Prevention Modelling Project (DA-CCP).
Project Status:
Completed
Using evidence to evaluate Australian drug trafficking thresholds: Proportionate, equitable and just?
Most Australian states and territories have adopted drug trafficking thresholds which specify quantities of drugs, over which it is presumed an offender has committed an offence of ‘drug trafficking’, rather than ‘possession for personal use’.
Project Status:
Completed
Attitudes of people who inject drugs towards threshold quantities for drug trafficking in NSW and SA
Legal threshold quantities for drug trafficking are used most Australian jurisdictions to define the quantity over which possession of an illicit drug is deemed “trafficking” versus “personal use” (Hughes, 2011).
Project Status:
Current
Trafficking in multiple commodities: Exposing Australia’s poly-drug and poly-crime networks
It has been long recognised that illicit drug traffickers can and do trade in multiple drugs.
Project Status:
Completed