Sign the Resolution for a Federal
Commission on Drug Policy
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Handbook for medical practitioners and other health care workers on alcohol and other
drug problems
CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- What is the size of the problem?
- Concepts and definitions
- Alcohol
- Brief intervention for medical practitioners and health care
workers
- Tobacco
- Heroin
- Cannabis
- Cocaine
- Volatile substances
- Amphetamines
- Ecstasy
- Drugs in pregnancy
- Intoxication and overdoses
- Detoxification and management of withdrawal
- A multicultural approach to drug and alcohol-related issues and
problems
- The health professional or health care worker as a patient
- Important issues
- Community support services
Bibliography and recommended reading
appendixes
- Deaths caused by drug use, drug involved, cause of death, age,
1990
- Principal drug problems by client status
- Lifetime experience with drugs persons aged 14-19 years,
australia 1988 and 1991
- Proportion of population who have used illicit drugs in the past
year, type of drug, age, sex, 1991
- Proportion of the population who have ever tried various drugs,
drug type, 1985, 1988 and 1991
- Summary of major characteristics of cannabis, methadone and heroin
- APSAD: australian professional society on alcohol and other drugs
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