Mortality amongst illicit drug users
Subtitle: epidemiology, causes, and intervention
By: Shane Darke, Louisa Degenhardt & Richard Mattick
Contributors: Degenhardt, Louisa; Mattick, Richard P.; National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (Australia)
Series: International research monographs in the addictions
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Drug addicts -- Mortality; Substance abuse -- Treatment; Drug addicts -- Services for
Description: "Over the past 40 years the rate of illicit drug use worldwide has risen dramatically, and with it the number of deaths reported among drug-using populations. What are the clinical, ethical and psychopathological implications of these deaths? In this book Shane Darke and his team provide the first full, systematic review of the epidemiology, causes, prevalence, demography and associated risk factors of illicit-drug-related mortality. In addition, they examine and evaluate interventions to reduce these deaths. The major causes of death among illicit drug users are overdose, disease, suicide and trauma. Each is independently examined. This is an important book for all clinicians and policy-makers involved in issues relating to illicit drug use."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-185) and index