Reducing drug-related harm: Australia leads the way

Harm-reduction approaches are more easily embedded in policy when drugs are legally regulated

1 Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre, Melbourne, VIC.
2 Alcohol and Drug Service, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, NSW.
3 Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health, Melbourne, VIC.

Correspondence:

1. Health Outcomes International; The National Centre for HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research; Centre of Health Economics, York University (Drummond M). Return on investment in needle and syringe programs in Australia. Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, October 2002. Available at: www.health.gov.au/pubhlth/publicat/document/metadata/roireport.htm (accessed Aug 2004).

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