23 (Xinhua) -- Illicit drug use in Australia could be twice as high as previously reported, a study said. The study, released by Western Australia's (WA) Curtin University on Wednesday, said that many people were deliberately under-reporting their drug use to avoid being caught. Mark ...
To complement existing institution-based drug use surveys, a street intercept survey of 581 young illicit drug users was conducted in Sydney, Australia. Patterns of use, reasons for use and awareness of the health risks associated with use were investigated. The most commonly used illicit drug ...
CANBERRA, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Australians use more than 13,000 kg of illicit drugs every year, a report has found. The fifth report of the National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program, released by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) on Tuesday, revealed that Australia ranked s...
Previous estimates of drug use in Australia had ranged from approximately 16% overall to 19% for those aged 14-49. Lead investigator Elizabeth D. Paratz, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute; noted, “As clinicians in Melbourne, we frequently s...
(1994) Illicit Drug Reporting System. Consultant's report to the Commonwealth Department of Human Services and Health, (Wardlaw Consulting, Canberra)Hando J, Darke S, O’Brien S, et al. The development of an early warning system to detect trends in illicit drug use in Australia: The Illicit...
Adolescents are known to be particularly vulnerable, compared to children and adults, to initiation of substance use and progression to problematic use. This study aimed to examine the prevalence and type of illicit drug use in a population of adolescents and young adults who were hospitalized in ...
Data were subjected to a thematic analysis.ResultsChemsex typically featured more partners and a longer duration than other forms of sex, and the relationship between drug use and HIV/STI transmission risk behaviour was varied. While some men believed that engaging in chemsex had unwittingly led ...
adults with a serious mental illness reported illicit drug dependence or abuse within the past year. This statistic depicts the percentage of illicit drug dependence or abuse among adults in the United States as of 2023, sorted by level of mental illness....
The prevalence of past-year illicit drug use disorders among persons using illicit drugs in the past year varied by metropolitan/nonmetropolitan status and changed over time. Across both metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas, the prevalence of past-year illicit drug use disorders declined during 2003...
An outbreak of hepatitis A among illicit drug users in southeast Sydney, Australia, which occurred between 1 December 1998 and 30 May 1999, is reported. Among the 31 patients reporting illicit drug use, 52% resided in or had recently visited the Kings Cross area and the mean age range was...