Publications

ADLRF publications

3bill-imageThe $3 Billion Question for Australian Businesses

In 2007, the ADLRF published the report “The Three Billion Dollar Question for Australian Businesses“, the first known study in Australia to directly quantify the cost of illicit drug use to businesses.


Other noteworthy publications – external links

Damon Barrett – Children of the Drug War: Perspectives on the impact of Drug Polices on Young people

Transform Drug Policy Foundation – After the War on Drugs: Blueprint for Regulation

Dr Alex Wodak AM – Demand Reduction and Harm Reduction

Legal Information Access Centre – Drugs and the Law

Ken Pidd & Ann M Roche – Workplace Drug Testing: Evidence and issues

UNODC – Drug control, crime prevention and criminal justice: A Human Rights perspective

Thomas Regnier – “Civilizing” Drug Paraphernalia Policy

The World Bank – Innocent Bystanders: Developing Countries and the War on Drugs

Harry G. Levine & Craig Reinarman – The Trouble with Drink and Drugs: Why Prohibition and Criminalisation Matter

Dan Werb, Greg Rowell, Gordon Guyattd, Thomas Kerra, Julio Montanera & Evan Wood – Effect of drug law enforcement on drug market violence: A systematic review

Fernanda Mena & Dick Hobbs – Narcophobia: drugs prohibition and the generation of human rights abuses

Seth Harp – Globilization of the U.S. Black Market: Prohibition, the War on Drugs, and the Case of Mexico

Desmond Manderson – Possessed: The unconscious law of drugs

Charlette Walsh – Drugs and human rights: private palliatives, sacramental freedoms and cognitive liberty

Caitlin Elizabeth Hughes & Alex Stevens – A resounding success or a disastrous failure: Re-examining the interpretation of evidence on the Portuguese decriminalisation of illicit drugs

Sam Harper, Erin C. Strumpf, & Jay S. Kaufman – Do Medical Marijuana Laws Increase Marijuana Use? Replication Study and Extension

Bruce K. Alexander – The Myth of Drug-Induced Addiction

Rumi Kato Price, Nathan K. Risk & Edward L. Spitznagel – Remission From Drug Abuse Over a 25-Year Period: Patterns of Remission and Treatment Use

Craig Reinarman & Harry G. Levine – Crack in the Rearview Mirror: Deconstructing Drug War Mythology

Human Rights Watch – Global State of Pain Treatment: Access to Palliative Care as a Human Right

Kirsten Bella & Amy Salmon – Pain, physical dependence and pseudoaddiction: Redefining addiction for ‘nice’ people?

Linda Carter Sobell – The Phenomenon of Self-Change: Overview and Key Issues

Peter Andreas – Free market reform and drug market prohibition: Us policies at cross-purposes in Latin America

Lynn Atkinson and David McDonald – Cannabis, the Law and Social Impacts in Australia

John Jiggens – The Cost of Drug Prohibition in Australia

Lisa D. Moore and Amy Elkavich – Who’s Using and Who’s Doing Time: Incarceration, the War on Drugs, and Public Health

Harry G. Levine – Global drug prohibition: its uses and crises

Mark Thornton – Prohibition versus Legalization: Do Economists Reach a Conclusion on Drug Policy?

Joseph Westermeyer – The Pro-Heroin Effects of Anti-Opium Laws in Asia

Catherine Hankins – Substance use: time for drug law reform