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Volume 204 Issue 04

7 March 2016

News

News briefs

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (4): 140 Free

Editorials

“Ice” (crystal methamphetamine): concerns and responses

Margaret Hamilton and Adrian J Dunlop

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (4): 136-137 Free

Alcohol and other drug treatment policy in Australia

Alison Ritter and Mark Stoove

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (4): 138 Free

ADHD and psychostimulants — overdiagnosis and overprescription

Adrian J Dunlop and Louise K Newman

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (4): 139 Free

Perspectives

Managing legal and medical complexities in caring for people with drug and alcohol problems: a call for change

Ian W Webster

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (4): 141-142

Take-home naloxone programs and calls to emergency services

Amy Kirwan, Michael Curtis, Ingrid A van Beek, Kate Cantwell and Paul M Dietze

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (4): 143

Drug checking to improve monitoring of new psychoactive substances in Australia

Robin J Butterfield, Monica J Barratt, Nadine Ezard and Richard O Day

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (4): 144-145

Australia reschedules naloxone for opioid overdose

Simon R Lenton, Paul M Dietze and Marianne Jauncey

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (4): 146-147 Free

Short reports

Prescription drug monitoring in Australia: capacity and coverage issues

Rowan P Ogeil, Cherie Heilbronn, Belinda Lloyd and Dan I Lubman

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (4): 148 Free

Trends in drug use among adolescents admitted to residential treatment in Australia

Sally Nathan, Anna Bethmont, Patrick R Rawstorne, Mark Ferry and Andrew Hayen

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (4): 149-150

Trends in methamphetamine residues in wastewater in metropolitan and regional cities in south-east Queensland, 2009–2015

Foon Yin Lai, Jake O'Brien, Phong K Thai, Wayne D Hall and Jochen Mueller

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (4): 151-152 Free

Research

Estimating the number of regular and dependent methamphetamine users in Australia, 2002–2014

Louisa Degenhardt, Sarah Larney, Gary Chan, Timothy Dobbins, Megan Weier, Amanda Roxburgh, Wayne D Hall and Rebecca McKetin

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (4): 153 Free

ADHD medication overdose and misuse: the NSW Poisons Information Centre experience, 2004–2014

Rose Cairns, Benjamin Daniels, Danielle A Wood and Jonathan Brett

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (4): 154 Free

Perceptions of Australasian emergency department staff of the impact of alcohol-related presentations

Diana Egerton-Warburton, Andrew Gosbell, Angela Wadsworth, Katie Moore, Drew B Richardson and Daniel M Fatovich

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (4): 155 Free

Comparing colorectal cancer treatment and survival for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in New South Wales

Kristie Weir, Rajah Supramaniam, Alison Gibberd, Anthony Dillon, Bruce K Armstrong and Dianne L O'Connell

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (4): 156 Free

Case reports

Lessons from practice

Necrotising myositis presenting as multiple limb myalgia

Henrique Nicola and David JR Morgan

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (4): 157-158

Lessons from practice

HLA-B*5801: a genetic susceptibility to allopurinol-induced DRESS

Augustine N Mugwagwa, Roy Fischer and Izwan Zailan

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (4): 159-160

Reflections

Lessons from Oliver Sacks

Daniel R Schweitzer

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (4): 161

The acute care conveyor belt: a personal experience

Kimberley D Ivory

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (4): 162-163 Free

Book/Media/App review

Rethinking autism

Louise K Newman

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (4): 164

Poem

Star of Braintree

Danny Hutley

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (4): 164 Free

Careers

Digital native doctors

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (4): Free

Around the universities and research institutes

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (4): Free

Calendar of conferences in Australia and New Zealand

Cate Swannell

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (4): Free