Medical jurnal of Australia:
Search for alcoholism and other addictions

Search performed June 2000 at
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'Acculturating' heroin use [For Debate] Matt D Gaughwin 1996; 164: 692-693
The ACT heroin trial proposal: an overview [For Debate] Gabriele Bammer and Robert M Douglas 1996; 164: 690-692
Heroin-related deaths in New South Wales, 1992: toxicological findings and circumstances [Research] Deborah Zador, Sandra Sunjic, Shane Darke Med J Aust 1996; 164: 204-207
Preventing hepatitis C virus transmission in Australians who inject drugs [Editorial] Katrina J R Watson 2000; 172: 55-56
How can we reduce heroin 'overdose' deaths? [Editorials] Wayne D Hall Med J Aust 1996; 164: 197-198
Ephedrine abuse causing acute myocardial infarction [Notable Case] Jerome G L Cockings and Michael A Brown 1997; 167: 199-200
Alcohol withdrawal treatment manual [Book review] Paolo B DePetrillo, Mark K McDonough
Public health and politics: the demise of the ACT heroin trial [Editorials] Alex D Wodak Med J Aust 1997; 167: 348-349
Hepatitis C virus antibody prevalence among injecting drug users at selected needle and syringe programs in Australia, 1995-1997 [Research] Margaret A MacDonald, Alex D Wodak, Kate A Dolan, Ingrid van Beek, Philip H Cunningham, and John M Kaldor, for the Collaboration of Australian NSPs* 2000; 172: 57-61
Mortality associated with New South Wales methadone programs in 1994: lives lost and saved [Research] John R M Caplehorn and Olaf H Drummer 1999; 170: 104-109
Drugspeak. The analysis of drug discourse [Book review] John B Davies
Addict in the family:how to cope with the long haul [Book review] Andrew Byrne
The force of numbers: why hepatitis C is spreading among Australian injecting drug users while HIV is not [Viewpoint] Nick Crofts, Campbell K Aitken, John M Kaldor 1999; 170: 220-221
Is the grass greener? The link between cannabis and psychosis [Viewpoint] Diana R McKay and Christopher C Tennant 2000; 172: 284-286
The suicide of Thomas Wentworth Wills [History] Gregory M de Moore 1999; 171: 656-658
Feasibility of prescribing injectable heroin and methadone to opiate-dependent drug users: associated health gains and harm reductions [Research] Nicky Metrebian, William Shanahan, Brian Wells and Gerry V Stimson Med J Aust 1998; 168: 596-600
A cruel and unusual punishment [Editorials] Nick Crofts Med J Aust 1997; 166: 116
Doctors who self-administer drugs of dependence Kerry J Breen and John M Court 1998; 169: 404-405
Prescribing heroin: nothing to fear but fear itself? [Editorial] Alex Wodak Med J Aust 1998; 168: 590-591
Methadone maintenance treatment and other opioid replacement therapies [Book review] Jeff Ward, Richard P Mattick and Wayne Hall, editors
Ultrarapid opiate detoxification. What's all the fuss about? [Letter] John R M Caplehorn 1997; 167: 393
Public health and politics: the demise of the ACT heroin trial [Letter] Christopher J Alroe 1998; 168: 527
A study of 100 anabolic-androgenic steroid users [Letter] Jan Copeland, Richard Peters, Paul Dillon 1998; 168: 311-312
Accidental drug toxicity associated with methadone maintenance treatment [Editorial] Robert L Ali and Allan J Quigley 1998; 169: 100-101
Dehydroepiandrosterone and sport [Sports Medicine] A Brian Corrigan 1999; 171: 206-208
Hepatitis B and C in New South Wales prisons: prevalence and risk factors [Research] Tony G Butler, Kate A Dolan, Mark J Ferson, Linda M McGuinness, Phillip R Brown, Peter W Robertson Med J Aust 1997; 166: 127
Wernicke's encephalopathy and thiamine fortification of food: time for a new direction? [Editorial] Leslie R Drew, A Stewart Truswell Med J Aust 1998; 168: 535-536
The control of drugs and drug users, reason or reaction? [Book review] Ross Coomber, editor
A pilot study of naltrexone-accelerated detoxification in opioid dependence [Healthcare] James R Bell, Malcolm R Young, Sibyl C Masterman, Amanda Morris, Richard P Mattick and Gabriele 1999; 171: 26-30
The heroin trial we had to have [For Debate] Nick Crofts 1996; 164: 694-695
Tough on drugs -- weak on tobacco [Viewpoint] Simon Chapman 2000; 172: 612-614
Incidence of bloodborne virus infection and risk behaviours in a cohort of injecting drug users in Victoria, 1990-1995 [Research] Nick Crofts, Campbell K Aitken Med J Aust 1997; 167: 17-20
Doctors detected self-administering opioids in New South Wales, 1985-1994: characteristics and outcomes Megan Cadman and James Bell 1998; 169: 419-421
How the NHMRC got its finger burnt [Medicine and the law] Konrad Jamrozik, Simon Chapman, Alistair Woodward Med J Aust 1997; 167: 372-374
The agony of [Editorials] Jason M White, Felix Bochner, Rodney J Irvine Med J Aust 1997; 166: 117
Heroin addiction: the science and ethics of the new treatment pluralism [Viewpoint] Matt D Gaughwin and Philip Ryan 1999; 170: 129-130
Hyponatraemia and death after [Notable cases] Michael J A Parr, Heather M Low, Paull Botterill Med J Aust 1997; 166: 136
Is naltrexone a cure for heroin dependence? [Editorial] Wayne D Hall, Alex Wodak 1999; 171: 9-10
Cannabis in medical practice. A legal, historical and pharmacological overview of the therapeutic use of marijuana [Book review] Mary Lynn Mathre
Prevalence of Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome in Australia: has thiamine fortification made a difference? [Research] Clive G Harper, Donna L Sheedy, Ana I Lara, Therese M Garrick, John M Hilton and Jack Raisanen Med J Aust 1998; 168: 542-545