Mortality amongst illicit drug users : epidemiology, causes, and intervention / Shane Darke, Louisa Degenhardt & Richard Mattick.

The rate of illicit drug use worldwide has risen dramatically, and with it the number of deaths reported among drug-using populations. In this book, Shane Darke and his team provide the first full, synthetic review of the epidemiology, causes, prevalence, interventions, demography, and associated ri...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Darke, Shane
Corporate Author: National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (Australia)
Other Authors: Degenhardt, Louisa, Mattick, Richard P. (Richard Phillip)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2007.
Series:International research monographs in the addictions.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of tables; 1 Why illicit drug-related deaths matter; 2 The global epidemiology of illicit drug use; 3 Mortality amongst illicit drug users; 4 Mortality and drug overdose; 5 Illicit drug use and disease; 6 Mortality and suicide; 7 Mortality and trauma; 8 Reducing drug-related mortality; 9 Summary and conclusions; References; Index.