Shane Darke (Sydney University of New South Wales), Louisa Degenhardt (Sydney University of New South Wales), Richard Mattick (Sydney University of New South Wales)

Mortality amongst Illicit Drug Users

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• International Research Monographs in the Addictions
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9780521855068
• ISBN-10: 0521855063
• Artikelnr.: 23185821

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.