Historical publications
The health and psychological effects of cannabis use, 2nd edition: Monograph no. 44
This monograph reviews the literature on the health and psychological effects of cannabis. This includes a description of cannabis as a drug, patterns of use, acute effects, adverse health and psychological effects of chronic use, possible consequenses of adolescent use, therapeutic benefits, and adverse effects when used with alcohol and tobacco.
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 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
- Amphetamines and other psychostimulants - a guide to the management of users
- 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 no. 45
- Australian secondary students' use of over-the-counter and illicit substances in 1996: Monograph no. 33
- Australian secondary students' use of over-the-counter and illicit substances in 1999: Monograph 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 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: Monograph 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 1998-9: Monograph no. 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: Monograph no. 50
- Drug harm minimisation education for police in Australia: Monograph no. 41
- Drug law enforcement: its effect on treatment experience and injection practices: Monograph 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 no. 37
- eHealth Future Directions Briefing Paper
- Electronic Information Access Report
- Employment and psychosis
- Evaluating treatments for alcohol and other drugs: Monograph no. 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 no. 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 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 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 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 health policy on tobacco in Australia and 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 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 discussion paper - Adoption of the Globally Harmonised System for Classification and Labelling of Chemicals in Respect to Domestic and Consumer Chemicals Including Pesticides
- Public opinion towards drug policies in Australia, 1985-95
- Public perceptions of the health and psychological consequences of cannabis use: Monograph no. 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 screening instruments for alcohol and other drug use and other psychiatric disorders, 2nd edition: Monograph 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 prevention program: Monograph no. 13
- The effectiveness of treatment for drug and alcohol problems an overview: Monograph no. 11
- The health and psychological effects of cannabis use, 2nd edition: Monograph no. 44
- The National Drug Strategy: mapping the future
- 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 no. 40
- The social costs of drug abuse in Australia in 1988 and 1992: Monograph no. 30
- The social impacts of the cannabis expiation notice scheme in South Australia: Monograph 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
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