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Jason Ferris

Report

Building procedural justice in Australian street-level drug law enforcement

Larissa Maier, Adam Winstock

The study provides an assessment of the extent to which Australian street-level drug law enforcement approaches are perceived as procedurally just by people who use illicit drugs, to benchmark procedural justice levels and to identify predictors of and methods to enhance procedural justice. It outlines avenues to improve the procedural justice in Australia.
Report

Australian music festival attendees who seek emergency medical treatment following alcohol and other drug use


Between September 2018 and January 2019, five young people died after attending music festivals in NSW. While there has been much policy deliberation surrounding these events, these tragedies have highlighted a lack of current and localised information about the circumstances surrounding acute harm events following drug use among Australian festivalgoers.
Briefing paper

Assessing the utility of Project STOP in reducing pseudoephedrine diversion to clandestine laboratories


Evaluates the utility of Project STOP in reducing the diversion of PSE-based products to clan labs. Foreword Project STOP, an online database in which pharmacists record sales of pseudoephedrine (PSE)-based medication, was implemented in 2005 to aid in reducing the diversion of PSE-based products for use as precursors in the domestic manufacture of methamphetamine. Australian...
Journal article

Alcohol advertising in sport and non-sport TV in Australia, during children’s viewing times

Exposure to alcohol advertising is associated with initiation of drinking in children who have not previously been drinkers, and greater consumption in pre-existing drinkers, according to this study.

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