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NT trends in ecstasy and related drug markets 2011 : findings from the Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System (EDRS)

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Title

NT trends in ecstasy and related drug markets 2011 : findings from the Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System (EDRS)

Collection

NT trends in ecstasy and related drug markets; Reports; PublicationNT

Date

2011

Description

Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).

Notes

Date:2011; Australian drug trends series No. 80

Language

English

Subject

Drug abuse surveys -- Northern Territory -- Periodicals; Ecstasy (Drug) -- Northern Territory -- Periodicals; Drug abuse -- Northern Territory -- Periodicals

Publisher name

National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales

Place of publication

Sydney (N.S.W)

ISBN

9780733430206

Copyright owner

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Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/242182

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/610318

Page content

1 1 INTRODUCTION This report presents the results of the 2011 Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS) for the Northern Territory (NT). The IDRS is coordinated by the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) which is part of the University of New South Wales. It is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing (AGDH&A). The purpose of the IDRS is to provide a standardised, comparable approach to the monitoring of data relating to the use of opiates, cocaine, methamphetamine and cannabis. It is intended to act as a strategic early warning system identifying emerging drug problems of national and jurisdictional concern. In the NT, a partial IDRS, not including the participants survey, was conducted by the then Territory Health Services (now NT Department of Health) in 1999. In 2000 and 2001, the full methodology was conducted through the Northern Territory University (now Charles Darwin University). Since 2002, the full IDRS has been conducted by the NT DHCS. Reports of these studies are available to download from the NDARC website. Reports of the IDRS findings for individual states and territories are published by NDARC, and each year NDARC produces and publishes a national report presenting an overall picture which includes comparison of jurisdictions. 1.1 Study aims The specific aims of the NT component of the IDRS are: to monitor the price, purity and availability of a range of illicit drug classes in the NT; and to identify emerging trends in illicit drug use and the illicit drug market in the NT.