Historical publications
Alcohol and other drugs: a handbook for health professionals
This resource provides an overview of key health and medical issues arising from the use of alcohol and other drugs.
In this section:
- Disclaimer
- Occasional papers series
- Public Health Outcome Funding Agreements (PHOFAs)
- Regulatory Plan 2007-08
- Regulatory Plan 2006-07
- Chapter 5: References
- PHERP Review Reports
- 2002 Reviews of the National HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C Strategies and Strategic Research
- A Healthy Start for 0-5 Year Olds. Occasional Papers Series Number 3
- A review of law enforcement and other criminal justice attitudes, policies and practices regarding cannabis and cannabis laws in South Australia. Monograph Series No.38
- A Review of the Current Role of Enrolled Nurses in the Aged Care Sector: Future Directions
- A Review of the Current Role of Enrolled Nurses in the Aged Care Sector: Future Directions
- A study into the information needs and perceptions of older Australians concerning falls and their prevention
- Aged Care Assessment Program - National Data Repository - Minimum Data Set Annual Report - 2003 - 2004
- Aged Care Assessment Program - National Data Repository - Minimum Data Set Annual Report - 2004-2005
- Aged Care Assessment Program, National Minimum Data Set Annual Reports
- Ageing and suicide
- Ageing gracefully:an overview of the economic implications of Australia’s ageing population profile. Occasional Papers New Series Number 10
- Alcohol and other drugs: a handbook for health professionals
- Alcohol consumption patterns among Australian 15-17 year olds from 2000 to 2004
- Alerting the community to the link between illicit drugs and mental illness - Developmental research
- An analysis of research on preventing falls and falls injury in older people: Community, residential care and hospital settings (2004 update)
- An Overview of Health Status, Health Care and Public Health in Australia. Occasional Papers Series Number 5.
- Application for Financial Hardship Assistance
- Australian secondary students' use of alcohol in 1999. Monograph Series No. 45
- Australian secondary students' use of over-the-counter and illicit substances in 1996. Monograph series No. 33
- Australian secondary students' use of over-the-counter and illicit substances in 1999. Monograph Series No. 46
- Building on success 1: a review of gay and other homosexually active men's HIV/AIDS education in Australia
- Building on success 2: towards a national strategy for HIV/AIDS health promotion for gay and other homosexually active men
- Building on success 3: the Commonwealth Government response to towards national strategy for HIV/AIDS health promotion for gay and other homosexually active men
- Cannabis offences under the cannabis expiation notice scheme in South Australia: Monograph Series No. 35
- Chief Medical Officer's Report 1999-2000
- Chief Medical Officer's Report 2000-2001
- Chief Medical Officer's Report 2001-2002
- Clients of treatment service agencies: May 2001 census findings report. Monograph Series No. 47
- Compression of Morbidity Workshop Papers. Occasional Papers Series Number 4.
- Consumer Measurement Systems and Child and Adolescent Mental Health
- Consumer Perceptions of Nursing and Nurses in General Practice
- Coordinated Care - Evaluation Report of 2nd Round Trials
- Costs of psychosis in urban Australia
- Counting the cost: estimates of the social costs of drug abuse in Australia in 1998-99: Monograph 49
- Disability, homelessness and social relationships among people living with psychosis in Australia
- Discussion Document Towards a Fourth National HIV/AIDS Strategy April 1999
- Djirruwang Program
- Drug driving among police detainees in three states of Australia: final report. Monograph Series No. 50
- Drug harm minimisation education for police in Australia. Monograph Series No. 41
- Drug law enforcement: its effect on treatment experience and injection practices. Monograph Series No. 42
- Effects of the Cannabis Expiation Notice Scheme on levels and patterns of cannabis use in South Australia: evidence from the National Drug Strategy Household Surveys 1985-1995 Monograph Series No. 37
- eHealth Future Directions Briefing Paper
- Electronic Information Access Report
- Employment and psychosis
- Evaluating treatments for alcohol and other drugs: Monograph 14
- Evaluation of the 2001 Nursing in General Practice Initiative
- Evaluation of the National Donovonosis Eradication Project 2001-2004
- Evaluation of the regionalisation of general practice vocational training
- Evaluation Report Phases 1 and 2 National Continence Management Strategy
- Expanding settings for medical specialist training
- Falls prevention activities for older people: a national stocktake
- Family and Community Services: When is Competition the Answer? Occasional Papers Series Number 2
- First Planning Forum of the National Advisory Council for Suicide Prevention (The)
- Future Directions for Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment in Australia: Monograph 17
- Gambling: is it a health hazard? Occasional Papers New Series Number 2
- Guidelines for the Divisions Network Nursing in General Practice Program
- Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Influenza Outbreaks in Residential Care Facilities for Public Health Units in Australia
- Hanging from a String in the Wind: Development of a National Framework for Mentoring for Nurses in General Practice
- Health and Medical Research Strategic Review - The Virtuous Cycle - Working together for health and medical research (Wills Report)
- Health Expenditure: Its Management and Sources. Occasional Papers: Health Financing Series Volume 3
- Health Financing and Population Health. Occasional Papers: Health Financing Series Volume 7
- Health Financing in Australia: The Objectives and Players. Health Financing Series Volume 1.
- Health policy and inequality. Occasional Papers: New Series Number 5
- Health Professional Education and Awareness Raising
- Health services in the city and the bush: measures of access and use derived from linked administrative data. Occasional Papers New Series Number 13
- Highlights of Government Support for Diabetes 1999
- Hospital casemix data and the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Occasional Papers: New Series Number 3
- How the Australian media report and portray suicide and mental health and illness: the case studies
- Incidence of incontinence as a factor in admission to aged care homes: executive summary.
- Infringement versus conviction: the social impact of a minor cannabis offence under a civil penalties system and strict prohibition in two Australian states. Monograph Series No. 36
- Insights into the utilisation of health services in Australia based on linked administrative data. Occasional Papers New Series Number 9
- Inspiring, not retiring
- International approaches to funding health care. Occasional Papers: Health Financing Series Volume 2
- Interpretations of the Advisory Panel on the Marketing in Australia of Infant Formula on the MAIF Agreement
- Investment Review of Health and Medical Research
- Learning Together: Education and Training Partnerships in Mental Health
- Legislative options for cannabis use in Australia: Monograph No. 26
- Marijuana in Australia: patterns and attitudes. Monograph Series No. 31
- Measuring Patient Satisfaction with Incontinence Treatment - Report
- Measuring Remoteness: Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia (ARIA) Revised Edition. Occasional Papers: New Series Number 14
- Media Monitoring Project: a baseline description of how the Australian media report and portray suicide and mental health and illness
- Media Monitoring Project: a baseline description of how the Australian media report and portray suicide and mental health and illness - executive summary
- Medicare Statistics
- Mental Health Information Development: National Information Priorities and Strategies under the Second National Mental Health Plan 1998–2003
- Mentoring Fact Sheets for Nursing in General Practice
- Models of intervention and care for psychostimulant users. Monograph Series No 32
- Moving Forward: Report on Medical Workforce Training and Employment Workshop
- National Action Plan for Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental Health 2000
- National Comorbidity Project
- National Drug Strategic Framework 1998-99 to 2002-03: Building Partnerships
- National Drug Strategy: Mapping the future
- National Health Policy on Tobacco in Australia & Examples of Strategies for Implementation
- National Health Priority Areas Report: Diabetes mellitus 1998
- National leadership through performance assessment. Occasional Papers Series Number 1
- National Mental Health Information Priorities Workshop: Sydney 26-27 February 2004: Proceedings
- National Mental Health Plan: April 1992
- National Mental Health Report 2002: Seventh Report. Changes in Australia's Mental Health Services under the First Two Years of the Second National Mental Health Plan 1998-2000
- National Mental Health Report 2004: Eighth Report - Summary of changes in Australia's Mental Health Services under the National Mental Health Strategy 1993-2002
- National policy on methadone treatment
- National Practice Standards for the Mental Health Workforce Bulletin No. 1
- Nursing in General Practice Training and Support Workshop 23 August 2005: Summary report
- Options for inpatient critical care services at the Mersey Community Hospital final report.
- Partnerships in practice: national HIV/AIDS strategy 1996-97 to 1998-99: a strategy framed in the context of sexual health and related communicable diseases
- Patterns of drug use in Australia: 1985-95
- People Living with Psychotic Illness: An Australian Study 1997–98
- People living with psychotic illness: An Australian study 1997–98: An overview
- Planning Guidelines for National Demonstration Projects in Integrated Mental Health Care
- Prevalent and Incident Incontinence in an Older Community: The Dubbo Longitudinal Study of the Elderly
- Private Health Insurance. Occasional Paper New Series Number 4
- Proceedings of expert workshop on the induction and stabilisation of patients onto methadone. Monograph Series No. 39
- Progress of the National Drug Strategy: Key National Indicators
- Projected costs of fall related injury to older persons due to demographic change in Australia: report to the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing. Canberra: New Directions in Health and Safety.
- Public and Private - In Partnership for Ausralia's Health. Occasional Papers: Health Financing Series Volume 4
- Public and Private Partnerships in Mental Health Project (The): Final Evaluation Report
- Public Opinion towards drug policies in Australia: 1985-95
- Public perceptions of health and psychological consequences of cannabis use: Monograph 29
- Recruitment and Retention of Nurses in Residential Aged Care: Final Report and Commonwealth Response
- Recruitment and Retention of Nurses in Residential Aged Care: Final Report and Commonwealth Response
- Reforming the Australian health care system: the role of government. Occasional Papers: New Series Number 1
- Report summary: Consumer Perceptions of Nursing and Nurses in General Practice
- Research and consultation among young people on mental health issues: Final report
- Response to the Final Evaluation Report of the Public and Private Partnerships in Mental Health Project
- Returns on Investment in Public Health: An epidemiological and economic analysis
- Review of diagnostic screeningi instruments for alcohol and other drug use and other psychiatric disorders, 2nd Edition: Monograph Series No. 48
- Review of the Impact of Part IV of the Trade Practices Act 1974 on the Recruitment and Retention of Medical Practitioners in Rural and Regional Australia
- Second National Mental Health Plan
- Some characteristics of hospital admissions and discharges: older Australians. Occasional Papers: New Series Number 8
- Stigma and discrimination
- Still Inspiring
- Summary of Outcomes of the National Workshop on practice nursing in Australian General Practice
- Technology, Health and Health Care. Occasional Papers: Health Financing Series Volume 5
- The Ageing Australian Population and Future Health Costs: 1996-2051. Occasional Papers: New Series Number 7
- The Australian Government Response to the 2002 Reviews of the National HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C Strategies
- The Australian medical workforce. Occasional Papers New Series Number 12
- The Development and implementation of the "Plan a safe Strategy" drink driving program: Monograph 13
- The Effectiveness of Treatment for Drug and Alcohol Problems an Overview: Monograph 11
- The health and psychological effects of cannabis use, 2nd edition. Monograph Series No. 44
- The national slips and falls prevention project
- The National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Framework for action by Governments 2003
- The Quality of Australian Healthcare: Current Issues and Future Directions. Occasional Papers: Health Financing Series Volume 6
- The role of police in the diversion of minor alcohol and drug related offenders. Monograph Series No. 40
- The social costs of drug abuse in Australia 1988 and 1992: Monograph 30
- The social impacts of the Cannabis Expiation Notice (CEN) Scheme in South Australia. Monograph Series No. 34
- The use of hospitals by older people: a casemix analysis. Occasional Papers New Series Number 11
- Trainee Selection in Australian Medical Colleges
- Trends in hospital activity: Australia 1991–92 to 2000–01. Occasional Papers: New Series No.15
- Use of psychopharmacological and other treatments by persons with psychosis (The)
- Valuing the past ... investing in the future- Evaluation of the National HIV /AIDS Strategy 1993-94 to 1995-96
- Medicare Statistics - September Quarter 2007
- Medicare Statistics - June Quarter 2007
- Medicare Statistics - March Quarter 2007
- Medicare Statistics - December Quarter 2006
- Medicare Statistics - September Quarter 2006
- Medicare Statistics - June Quarter 2006
- Medicare Statistics - March Quarter 2006
- Medicare Statistics - December Quarter 2005
- Regulatory Plan 2005-06
- Medicare Statistics - June Quarter 2005
- Regulatory Plan 2004-05
- Medicare Statistics - March Quarter 2005
- Regulatory Plan 2003-04
- Australian National Diabetes Information Audit & Benchmarking (ANDIAB) 2002
The handbook caters largely to the alcohol and other drug information needs of non-specialist medical practitioners and nurses.
The document is out of print and only available electronically.
Alcohol and other drugs: a handbook for health professionals (PDF 1503 KB large file)
The same publication in smaller sections:
- Cover and copyright (PDF 80 KB)
- Page i - xxi (PDF 88 KB)
- Part 1: Overview and introduction (PDF 155 KB)
- Part 2: The drugs (Chapters 3- 8) (PDF 389 KB)
- Part 2: The drugs (Chapters 9-12) (PDF 398 KB)
- Part 3: Non-medical interventions (PDF 119 KB)
- Part 4: Issues for special consideration (PDF 294 KB)
- Part 5: Appendices and glossary (PDF 279 KB)
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