Drug and alcohol review
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Drug and alcohol review · Jan 2014
The role of off-licence outlets in binge drinking: a survey of drinking practices last Saturday night among young adults in Australia.
To examine where young adults purchase their alcohol on Saturday nights and how this relates to binge drinking. ⋯ Off-licence outlets were a major source of alcohol in this sample of young Australian adults, many of whom binge-drank in private homes.
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Drug and alcohol review · Jan 2014
Case ReportsFrom oxycodone to heroin: two cases of transitioning opioid use in young Australians.
The non-medical use of pharmaceutical opioids is associated with a range of negative health consequences, including the development of dependence, emergency room presentations and overdose deaths. ⋯ These cases represent the first documented reports of transitions from the non-medical or recreational use of oxycodone to intravenous heroin use in Australia. As such, they represent an important starting point for the examination of pharmaceutical opioids as a pathway to injecting drug use among young Australians and highlight the need for further research designed to identify pharmaceutical opioids users at risk of transitions to injecting and to develop interventions designed to prevent or delay these transitions.