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Understanding and describing Australian illicit drug markets : drug price variations and associated changes in a cohort of people who inject drugs / Nick Scott, Jonathan P. Caulkins, Alison Ritter, Paul Dietze.

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Recherches policières canadienne

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Livres électroniques

Titre alternatif

How patterns of injecting drug use evolve in a cohort of people who inject drugs.

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Bibliographie

Includes bibliographical references.

Description

1 online resource (xv, 77 pages) : charts

Note

"Nick Scott is an Econometrician and Paul Dietze is a Professor at the Burnet Institute. Jonathan Caulkins is a Professor at Carnegie Mellon University Heinz College. Alison Ritter is a Professor at the University of New South Wales".

Résumé

This study has provided a detailed description of the drug purchase and drug use patterns of a cohort of people who inject drugs, and an understanding of changes that occurred between 2009 and 2014. During this period, heroin, methamphetamine, benzodiazepines and other opioids were typically purchased between 10am and 2pm with very little search time, were used almost immediately following their acquisition, and sharing a purchase or pooling money with a partner or friend was common, as were larger (>$100) purchases. Reported drug purchases and drug use both occurred more frequently in private homes than public settings, and this became increasingly so over time. Although the primary drug of the cohort remained heroin, two trends in drug use were observed: a transition from heroin to cannabis use, consistent with some of the cohort ‘maturing out’; and among existing methamphetamine users, a transition from powder to crystal methamphetamine use and increased methamphetamine consumption, corresponding with increased availability of the crystal form and a dramatic decrease in purity-adjusted price.

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Accès en ligne

Collection

Monograph series (National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund (Australia)), 1449-7476 ; no. 58

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