Mortality Amongst Illicit Drug Users - Epidemiology, Causes and Intervention

Zusatztext Review of the hardback: 'Mortality amongst Illicit Drug Users is a welcome sight. Shane Darke! Louisa Degenhardt and Richard Mattick carefully synthesise the mass of literature on drug-related mortality! delineate its key domains! and provide a rich bibliography for future investigators ? This book's documentation of drug-related mortality - so much of it preventable with existing methods readily available to us - is a testament to the poverty of current drug policies and bears stark witness to the price paid for these failures.' Perspectives 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, Shane Degenhardt Darke, Darke Shane, Louisa Degenhardt, Degenhardt Louisa, Richard Mattick, Mattick Richard
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.08.2012
• EAN: 9781107406414
• ISBN: 978-1-107-40641-4
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: International Research Monographs in the Addictions; International Research Monographs in the Addictions
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Epidemiology & medical statistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, MEDICAL / Biostatistics, MEDICAL / Epidemiology, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Addiction, Addiction & therapy, Drug & substance abuse: social aspects, Addiction and therapy, Drugs and alcohol: social aspects, Epidemiology and Medical statistics