Road to recovery: Report on the inquiry into substance abuse in Australian communities

Terms of reference
On 14 May 2002 the Minister for Health and Ageing, Senator the Hon Kay Patterson re-referred the inquiry to the committee so that it could complete the work commenced by the committee in the previous parliament.

In view of the level of community concern about the abuse of licit drugs such as alcohol, tobacco, over-the-counter and prescription medications, and illicit drugs like marijuana and heroin, the Committee has been asked by the Minister of Health and Ageing to report and recommend on:

The social and economic costs of substance abuse, with particular regard to:

• family relationships;
• crime, violence (including domestic violence), and law enforcement;
• road trauma;
• workplace safety and productivity; and
• health care costs.

Report

Submissions

Transcripts of public hearings including transcript for round-table on 15 and 16 August 2002

23/09/02 Canberra
16/08/02 Canberra
15/08/02 Canberra
14/06/01 Hobart
21/05/01 Canberra
02/05/01 Brisbane
20/04/01 Darwin
21/02/01 Sydney
23/11/00 Melbourne
21/11/00 Adelaide
13/09/00 Perth
14/08/00 Canberra

Media releases

• 21 July 2004 - Substance Abuse: Australia leading research with Naltrexone implant treatment (PDF 20KB)
  
• 8 September 2003 - Substance Abuse report makes 128 recommendations to government (PDF 22KB)
  
• 5 September 2003 - Substance Abuse inquiry to release report, Monday 8 September, Canberra (PDF 22KB)
  
• 23 September 2002 - Substance Abuse inquiry - public hearing Monday 23 September, Canberra (PDF 21KB)
  
• 16 August 2002 - Substance Abuse round-table: Day 2- Friday 16 August (PDF 21KB)
  
• 14 August 2002 - Substance Abuse: two-day round-table Thursday 15 and Friday 16 August
  (No. 2) (PDF 23KB)
  
• 12 August 2002 - Substance Abuse: two-day round-table Thursday 15 and Friday 16 August (PDF 26KB)
  
• 17 May 2002 - Substance abuse inquiry re-adopted (HTML)

Discussion paper - Where to next? - a discussion paper: Inquiry into substance abuse in Australian communities (Full discussion paper - PDF 2,609KB)
On 24 September 2001 in the last parliament (39th) the Committee tabled this discussion paper on its work on the inquiry. A copy of the full discussion paper or the Table of contents and individual chapters is also available. To view or print the PDF documents, you will require the Acrobat PDF Reader, which can be downloaded free of charge from Adobe®.

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