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- Wiley
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- Copyright © 2005 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
- ISSN
- 0965-2140
- eISSN
- 1360-0443
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2005.01161.x
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Abstract
Events such as the Australian heroin shortage are rare. They have been even less often studied systematically using the rich array of data available in the Australian case. The interpretation of ecological data is fraught with difficulties, so we welcome the insightful commentaries on our paper [ 1 ]. Our responses to them are divided into two broad categories: comments on the consequences of the heroin shortage and our interpretation of them; and the policy implications to be drawn from the shortage. The effects of the heroin shortage We agree that the huge drop in fatal and non‐fatal overdoses was the most striking consequence of the Australian heroin shortage. Gossop [ 2 ] queried two of our interpretations: first, could we be sure, he asked, that a reduction in numbers of syringes dispensed by needle and syringe programmes meant that injecting drug use had declined? His substantive point is that frequency of injection may have changed; this could have been the case for VIC, but was less clear for NSW. Our interpretation was based upon two key findings: the sustained reduction in numbers of syringes distributed in NSW after a decade long increase in numbers, and a drop
Journal
Addiction – Wiley
Published: Jul 1, 2005