CRIM10001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Demand Reduction, Psychoactive Drug, Victimisation
15 Jun 2018
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CRIM10001 – Lecture 6a & 6b
Illicit drug use and dealing
Current laws against drug use
• State legislation: drugs, poisons and controlled substances act 1981
o Use, possession, cultivation, trafficking
o Concerned with domestic drug taking/dealing
• Commonwealth legislation
o Crimes (traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances) act 1990;
customs act, narcotic drugs act
o Concerned with importation
• International UN conventions
o 1961 single convention on narcotics: established international narcotics
control board to monitor compliance with conventions banning non-medical
drug use
o 1971 convention of psychotropic substances: established international
control system for synthetic drugs
o 1988 convention against illicit traffic in narcotics and psychotropics:
increased array of measures against trafficking and associated activities
(money-laundering, precursor chemicals) including extradition, controlled
deliveries etc.
• Australian policy – national drug strategy 2018-2026
o Demand reduction: to prevent uptake and/or delay onset use of alcohol,
tobacco and other drugs; reduce misuse of alcohol, tobacco and drugs in
community; to support people to recover from dependence *through
evidence-informed treatment
o Supply reduction: to prevent, stop, disrupt or otherwise reduce production
and supply of illicit drugs; and control, manage and regulate availability of
legal drugs
o Harm reduction: reduce adverse health, social and economic consequences
of alcohol, tobacco and drug use for *user, families and wider community
*new to policy
measuring drug use
• Police statistics – arrests
• Victimisation surveys
• Self-report surveys
• National drug strategy household surveys – 10 since 1985 (26,000 people)
o Stats on legal and illegal drugs – numbers are significantly lower for illegal
drugs
• Age and gender → men more likely, higher percentage 20-39 years
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