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.
SchoolMolecular Sciences
Credit points15
Subject Co-ordinatorPene Wood
Available to Study Abroad/Exchange StudentsNo
Subject year levelYear Level 4 - UG/Hons/1st Yr PG
Available as ElectiveNo
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Drug use and Public Health
Resource TypeBook
Resource RequirementRecommended
AuthorMoore, D., & Dietze, P.
Year2008
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PublisherOxford University Press Australia & New Zealand
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Drug use in Australia: preventing harm
Resource TypeBook
Resource RequirementRecommended
AuthorHamilton, M, King, T & Ritter, A
Year2004
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PublisherOxford University Press Australia & New Zealand
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Drug Use in Australian Society
Resource TypeBook
Resource RequirementRecommended
AuthorLee, N, King, T & Ritter, A
Year2017
Edition/Volume2nd Ed
PublisherOxford University Press Australia & New Zealand
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