Mortality Amongst Illicit Drug Users - Epidemiology, Causes and Intervention

Informationen zum Autor Shane Darke is a psychologist and Professor at the National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre (University of New South Wales). He is one of the world's leading researchers in drug and alcohol, has written three academic books, and published more than 270 scientific articles. He is a lover of absurdist comedy, including The Goons, Douglas Adams, Stanislaw Lem and Red Dwarf. Shane lives in Sydney, Australia. Klappentext This book is a synthetic review of the epidemiology, causes, prevalence, interventions, demography, and associated risk factors of illicit-drug-related mortality. Zusammenfassung 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 risk factors of illicit-drug-related mortality. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Shane Darke, Shane (University of New South Wales Darke, Louisa Degenhardt, Louisa Mattick Degenhardt, Richard Mattick
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.09.2006
• EAN: 9780521855068
• ISBN: 978-0-521-85506-8
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: International Research Monogra
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine