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  2. Illicit drug use in Australia - Wikipedia

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    Illicit drug use in Australia is the recreational use of prohibited drugs in Australia.Illicit drugs include illegal drugs (such as cannabis, opiates, and certain types of stimulants), pharmaceutical drugs (such as pain-killers and tranquillisers) when used for non-medical purposes, and other substances used inappropriately (such as inhalants). [1]

  3. Drug courts in Australia - Wikipedia

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    South Australia's Drug Court operates in the Adelaide Magistrates' Court. Participants must live within the Adelaide metropolitan area, be over 18 years of age, plead guilty to the most serious and bulk of offences and be dependent on illicit drugs. The participants do not have to be charged with a drug offence but their offending must have ...

  4. National Drug Strategy - Wikipedia

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    The National Drug Strategy (NDS) is the national drug regulation organization which maintains drug policy of the Australian Government. It began with its first framework in 1998 and has regularly formulated the Australian approach to drug education , treatment, rehabilitation , and prevention of substance abuse .

  5. Arguments for and against drug prohibition - Wikipedia

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    In Europe as of 2007, Sweden spends the second highest percentage of GDP, after the Netherlands, on drug control. [12] The UNODC argues that when Sweden reduced spending on education and rehabilitation in the 1990s in a context of higher youth unemployment and declining GDP growth, illicit drug use rose [13] but restoring expenditure from 2002 again sharply decreased drug use as student ...

  6. Legal drug trade - Wikipedia

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    Legal drug trade, as with other goods object of commerce, in opposition to smuggling or illegal drug trade, most psychotropic substances' commerce is under control and taxation by world governments, regardless of the relative perceived danger of the goods that are the object of legislation.

  7. Heroin in Australia - Wikipedia

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    However, of the nearly 2000 drug-related deaths in Australia in 2016, 20% of these were caused by heroin. [3] The rate of mortality amongst the Australian population who use heroin has fluctuated over time, however, opioids, both illicit (heroin) and licit, have remained the substance most prominently found in drug-related fatalities. [3]

  8. Australian Injecting and Illicit Drug Users League - Wikipedia

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    The Australian Injecting & Illicit Drug Users League (AIVL) is the peer-led peak organisation and harm reduction network advancing the wellbeing, health & human rights of the millions of people who use drugs illicitly (PWUD) in Australia and representing peer-based Drug User Organisations (DUOs) and also support the capacity building of peer-based harm reduction programs and networks in the ...

  9. Methamphetamine use in Australia - Wikipedia

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    Between 2009 and 2010 there were 41,087 illicit drug offenses in Australia. Between 2013 and 2014 this number increased by over 25 percent to 50,854 drug offenses; [30] furthermore, drug use increased from 22,842 to 28,409 over the same period of time. [30] This portrays an increasing trend in the amount of drug use in Australia and drug offenses.