Heroin Treatment - New Alternative : proceedings of a seminar held on 1 November 1991, Ian Wark Theatre, Backer House, Canberra
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2000
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Australian National University. National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (NCEPH)
Australian Institute of Criminology
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (Sydney, Australia)
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Canberra, ACT : National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health (NCEPH), The Australian National Universiity
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The meeting today grows out of a study conducted jointly by the National Centre for Epidemiology and
Population Health and the Australian Institute of Criminology in the early part of this year. That study
was prompted by an invitation from the Chairman of the ACT Legislative Assembly’s Select
Committee on HIV, Illegal Drugs and Prostitution - Mr Michael Moore - who invited us to examine the
feasibility of a trial of the controlled availability of opioids in the ACT. Dr Gabriele Bammer, who
directed that investigation, will be setting the scene for us by describing its conclusions at the outset of
the day’s discussions. We hope that from that baseline we can move forward in the course of the day
to explore the implications of those conclusions and to discuss whether or not it is appropriate to extend
the feasibility study to the next stage.
So our objective today is to explore the medical, health, social and law enforcement implications of
evaluating, in the ACT, new approaches to the treatment of heroin dependent individuals. Drug policy
is a highly political issue, any action to change the way we manage drug dependent people in the ACT
has political implications for the ACT and for other parts of Australia as well. So I am delighted that
we have representatives from drug and law enforcement agencies from most states of Australia here
today and that many of the people who will frame attitudes to the proposed ACT trial will have an
opportunity to discuss these issues in an open and uninhibited way.
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