The aim of this study was to develop and evaluate a resilience training program designed specifically to help new-recruit police officers mitigate stress reactions and the use of drugs and alcohol. Background Exposure to traumatic or stressful events has for some time been linked to symptoms of trauma in a minority of individuals. Although there...

This bulletin presents the results of a research project evaluating the impact of prohibitions on public drinking in three local government areas in New South Wales. Introduction Policies that restrict the spaces in which alcohol can be consumed are now widely implemented around the world. Bans on the public consumption of alcohol are particularly common...

Risky drinking causes considerable community concern in Australia and internationally, particularly when it involves young people consuming alcohol in the night-time economy or NTE (Miller, et al., 2012). In Australia, one in four young people (aged between 15 and 24 years) reported that in the past year they had consumed alcohol, at levels associated with...

This report provides a detailed examination of human DNA in drugs and the feasibility of extracting from it information useful for policing. The expected outcomes of the project were to: • identify how frequently drugs contain human DNA; • assess the relative merits of various methods for profiling this DNA and make recommendations on which...

People have consumed the plant Catha edulis, known more commonly as 'khat', for centuries for its stimulatory effects. Khat is cultivated as a shrub or tree and is large, slow growing and evergreen. It usually reaches a height of between one and six metres, but in some regions closer to the equator it may reach...