FUNDAMENTALS OF DRUG USE IN SOCIETY
PHA4DUS
Not currently offered
Credit points: 15
Subject outline
Drug use affects almost everybody in society. This blended subject critically appraises harm minimisation approaches and the history of drug use in Australia and internationally from a public health perspective reflecting on how social, economic and political factors and other complexities can affect the role that drugs and drug use can have in contemporary Australia. This subject will explore rates of drug use and harms, drug use as framed in the media and popular culture, drugs and the internet. Public policy responses to drug use will be examined, including prevention, treatment, legal issues and regulation, and policing. Workshops will take these factors into consideration and apply them to the role pharmacists can play in developing harm minimisation models within appropriate ethical and legal frameworks.
School: Molecular Sciences (Pre 2022)
Credit points: 15
Subject Co-ordinator: Pene Wood
Available to Study Abroad/Exchange Students: No
Subject year level: Year Level 4 - UG/Hons/1st Yr PG
Available as Elective: No
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Learning resources
Drug use and Public Health
Resource Type: Book
Resource Requirement: Recommended
Author: Moore, D., & Dietze, P.
Year: 2008
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Publisher: Oxford University Press Australia & New Zealand
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Drug use in Australia: preventing harm
Resource Type: Book
Resource Requirement: Recommended
Author: Hamilton, M, King, T & Ritter, A
Year: 2004
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Publisher: Oxford University Press Australia & New Zealand
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Drug Use in Australian Society
Resource Type: Book
Resource Requirement: Recommended
Author: Lee, N, King, T & Ritter, A
Year: 2017
Edition/Volume: 2nd Ed
Publisher: Oxford University Press Australia & New Zealand
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Career Ready
Career-focused: No
Work-based learning: No
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