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THE COORDINATED DATA: A FACTUAL STUDY OF DRUG DEPENDENCE AND DRUG ABUSE DURING 1965–1969 IN NEW SOUTH WALES: A SUMMARY
Author(s) -
Le Fevre Catherine G.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1971.tb87595.x
Subject(s) - drug control , substance abuse , criminology , drug , control (management) , political science , psychology , medicine , operations research , psychiatry , computer science , engineering , artificial intelligence
This research was begun and carried out because the problem of drug dependence among young Australians was of comparatively recent origin. It was hoped that the collecting and coordinating of all the available and relevant officially known recorded data for New South Wales might assist governmental authorities in trying to control the rapid growth of the problem. It was also hoped that different approaches to the problem would be indicated, as the therapeutic procedures then in use had been based on those used with lack of success in the United States of America and the United Kingdom.