Drugs
Clearinghouse Connector – September 2008
This edition of the Clearinghouse Connector profiles information resources that explore the issue of drugs.
Drug use and abuse differs between women and men and drug use among women appears to be on the rise. The following includes information on illicit drugs including the misuse of prescription drugs.
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Australian reports
2007 National drug strategy household survey
Improving health, reducing harm: Victorian drug strategy 2006-09
Illicit drugs
Women and substance abuse problems
Gender does matter: coalescing on women and substance abuse
Bringing a gender lens to research and action on women and substance abuse
Prescription drugs
Inquiry into the misuse/abuse of benzodiazepines and other forms of pharmacutical drugs in Victoria
Healthy sceptisism’s new AdWatch: understanding drug promotion
‘Doctor shoppers’: at risk by any other name
Contributing issues
What is coexisting mental illness and substance misuse?
Specific groups
Ages and stages: older women and substance abuse
The association between licit and illicit drug use and sexuality in young Australian women
The female criminal: an overview of women’s drug use and offending behaviour
Drug use pregnancy and motherhood
Who cares? mothers forced to choose treatment or their kids
Medication exposure during pregnancy: antidepressents
Pregnancy, breastfeeding and drug use
Related websites
TurningPoint Alcohol & Drug Centre
Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association (VAADA)
The National Drug Research Institute (NDRI)
How our Clearinghouse can help you
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Content Reviewed: 8 September 2008
Last Updated: 27 February 2009