Peer Reviewed Publications
This section lists all peer reviewed publications associated with DPMP. The abstracts are freely available (where relevant). For the journal articles, subscription by your host organisation is required.
Aitken, C., Kerr, T., Hickman, M., Stoove, M., Higgs, P., & Dietze, P. (2012, in press). A cross-sectional study of emergency department visits by people who inject drugs. Emergency Medical Journal, early online edition.
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Bammer, G. (2008). Enhancing research collaborations: Three key management challenges. Research Policy, 37(5), 875-887.
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Bell, J., Shanahan, M., Mutch, C., Rea, F., Ryan, A., Batey, R., Dunlop, A. & Winstock. A. (2007). A randomised trial of effectiveness and cost effectiveness of observed versus unobserved administration of burprenorphine-naloxone for heroin dependence. Addiction, 102, 1899-1907.
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Bright, D. A., & Ritter, A. (2011). Australian trends in drug user and drug dealer arrest rates: 1993 to 2006-07. Psychiatry, Psychology, & Law, 18(2), 190-201.
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Bright, D. A., & Ritter, A. (2010). Retail price as an outcome measure for the effectiveness of drug law enforcement. International Journal of Drug Policy, 21(5), 359-363.
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Bright, D. A., Hughes, C. E., & Chalmers, J. (2012). Illuminating dark networks: A social network analysis of an Australian drug trafficking syndicate. Crime, Law and Social Change, 57(2), 151-176.
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Caulkins, J. (2008). Implications of inertia for assessing drug control policy: Why upstream interventions may not receive due credit. Contemporary Drug Problems, 35(2-3), 347-370.
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Caulkins, J., Dietze, P. and Ritter, A. (2007). Dynamic Compartmental Model of Trends in Australia Drug Use. Health Care Management Science, 10, 151-162.
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Chambers, G. M., Chapman, M. G., Grayson, N., Shanahan, M., & Sullivan, E. A. (2007). Babies born after ART treatment cost more than non-ART babies: a cost analysis of inpatient birth-admission costs of singleton and multiple gestation pregnancies. Human Reproduction, 22(12), 3108-3115.
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Carragher, N., & Chalmers, J. (2011). What are the options? Pricing and taxation policy reforms to redress excessive alcohol consumption and related harms in Australia. General Report Series Doc No. R59. Sydney: NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research.
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Chalmers, J., & Bradford, D. (2013, in press). Methamphetamine users' perceptions of exchanging drugs for money: Does trust matter? Journal of Drug Issues.
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Chalmers, J., & Ritter, A. (2012). Subsidising patient dispensing fees: The cost of injecting equity into the opioid pharmacotherapy maintenance system. Drug and Alcohol Review.
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Chalmers, J., & Ritter, A. (2011). The business cycle and drug use in Australia: Evidence from repeated cross-sections of individual level data. International Journal of Drug Policy, 22(5), 341-52.
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Chalmers, J., Bradford, J., & Jones, C. (2010). The effect of methamphetamine and heroin price on polydrug use: A behavioural economics analysis in Sydney, Australia. International Journal of Drug Policy, 21(5), 381-389.
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Dray, A., Mazerolle, L., Perez, P., & Ritter, A. (2008). Policing Australia's 'heroin drought': Using an agent-based model to simulate alternative outcomes. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 4(3), 267-287.
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Drew, J. (2011). Police responses to the methamphetamine problem: An analysis of the organizational and regulatory context. Police Quarterly, 14(2), 99-123.
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Gibson, A. & Shanahan, M. (2007). Costs and outcomes of treatments for excessive alcohol consumption: making policy decisions with the available data. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 14, 1-17.
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Gong, W., Ritter, A., Bright, D., & Doran, C. (2012). How profitable is methamphetamine dealing in Australia? Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 122(3), 208-212.
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Hughes, C. (2009). Capitalising upon political opportunities to reform drug policy: A case study into the development of the Australian "Tough on Drugs-Illicit Drug Diversion Initiative". International Journal of Drug Policy, 20(5), 431-437.
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Hughes, C., & James, S. (2012). Performance Monitoring of Australian Drug Law Enforcement Agencies: Impediments to and Prospects for Reform. Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 23(3), 295-312.
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Hughes, C., & Stevens, A. (2012). A resounding success or a disastrous failure: Re-examining the interpretation of evidence on the Portuguese decriminalisation of illicit drugs. Drug and Alcohol Review, 31, 101-113.
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Hughes, C., & Stevens, A. (2010). What we can learn from the Portuguese decriminalization of illicit drugs? British Journal of Criminology, 50(6), 999-1022.
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Hughes, C.E., Lancaster, K., & Spicer, B. (2011). How do Australian news media depict illicit drug issues? An analysis of print media reporting across and between illicit drugs, 2003-2008. International Journal of Drug Policy, 22(4): 285-291.
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Hughes, C.E., Ritter, A., & Mabbitt, N. (2012, in press). Drug policy coordination: Identifying and assessing dimensions of coordination. International Journal of Drug Policy.
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Hughes, C.E., Spicer, B., & Lancaster, K. (2011). Young people's perceptions of, and engagement with, news media reporting on illicit drug issues: An Australian study. Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 23(2).
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Hughes, C.E., Chalmers, J., Bright, D.A., Matthew-Simmons, F., & Sindicich, N. (2011). Examining supply changes in Australia's cocaine market. Drug and Alcohol Review, 31(3), 263-272.
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Kueffer, C., Hirsch Hadorn, G., Bammer, G., van Kerkhoff, L. & Pohl, C. (2007). Towards a publication culture in transdisciplinary research. GAIA, 16, 22-26.
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Lancaster, K., & Hughes, C. (2013). Buzzed, broke, but not busted: How young Australians perceive the consequences of using illicit drugs. Youth Studies Australia, 32(1), 19-28.
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Lancaster, K., Hughes, C. E., Spicer, B. (2012). News media consumption amongst young Australians: Patterns of use and attitudes towards media reporting. Media International Australia, 143(May), 16-27.
Lancaster, K., Hughes, C.E., & Spicer, B. (2012). Media ownership and content diversity: Reporting of illicit drug issues in NSW, VIC, ACT and WA major metropolitan daily newspapers. Australian Journalism Review, 34(1), 53-66.
Lancaster, K., Ritter, A., Stafford, J. (2013). Public opinion and drug policy in Australia: Engaging the 'affected community'. Drug and Alcohol Review, 32(1), 60-66.
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Lancaster, K., Hughes, C.E., Chalmers, J., & Ritter, A. (2012, in press). More than problem-solving: Critical reflections on the ‘problematisation’ of alcohol-related violence in Kings Cross. Drug & Alcohol Review.
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Lancaster, K. Hughes, C.E., Spicer, B., Matthew-Simmons, F., Dillon, P. (2011). Illicit drugs and the media: Models of media effects for use in drug policy research. Drug and Alcohol Review, 30(4), 397-402.
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Livingston, M. (2013). To reduce alcohol-related harm we need to look beyond pubs and nightclubs. Drug and Alcohol Review, 32, 113-114.
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Manning, M., Ransley, J., Smith, C., Mazerolle, L., & Cook, A. (2012). Policing methamphetamine problems: A framework for synthesising expert opinion and evaluating alternative policy options. Journal of Public Policy.
Matthew-Simmons, F., Shanahan, M., & Ritter, A. (2011). Reported value of cannabis seizures in Australian newspapers: Are they accurate? Drug and Alcohol Review, 30(1), 21-25.
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Matthew-Simmons, F., Sunderland, M., & Ritter, A. (2013, in press). Exploring the existence of drug policy ‘ideologies’ in Australia. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy.
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Mazerolle, L., Soole, D. & Rombouts S. (2007). Drug law enforcement: A review of the evaluation literature. Police Quarterly, 10(2), 115-153.
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Mazerolle, L., Soole, D. & Rombouts, S. (2006). Street-level drug law enforcement: A meta-analytic review. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 2(4), 409-435.
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Midgley, G. (2007). Systems thinking for community involvement in policy anaylsis. Emergence: Complexity and Organization, 9(1-2), 167-183.
Moore, T. (2008). The size and mix of government spending on illicit drug policy in Australia. Drug and Alcohol Review, 27, 404-413.
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Moore, T. (2006). Australian Illicit Drug Market Data: Sources and Issues. The Australian Economic Review, 39(9), 1-11.
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Moore, T. & Caulkins, J. (2006). How cost-of-illness studies can be made more useful for drug policy analysis. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 5, 75-85.
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Moore, T., Ritter, A. & Caulkins, J. (2007). The costs and consequences of three policy options for reducing heroin dependency. Drug and Alcohol Review, 26(4), 369-378.
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Murray, J., & Ritter, A. (2011). Findings regarding reduced prevalence with hepatitis C treatment are still valid: A reply to Vickerman et al. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 113(2-3), 86-87.
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Pennay, A. E. (2012). ‘Wicked problems’: The social conundrum presented by public drinking laws. Drugs: education, prevention and policy, 19(3), 185-191.
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Pennay A. & Room, R. (2012). Prohibiting public drinking in public spaces: A review of the evidence. Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, 19(2), 91-101.
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Riddell, S., Shanahan, M., Degenhardt, L. & Roxburgh, A. (2008). Estimating the costs of drug related hospital separations in Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 32, 156-161.
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Riddell, S., Shanahan, M., Degenhardt, L. & Roxburgh, A. (2008). A reveiw of the use of US-derived aetiological fractions in an Australian setting for antenatal problems related to cocaine use. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 32, 393-394.
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Ritter, A. (2012). Commentary: On Friedman et al.'s, "Has United States drug policy failed? And how could we know?" Policy as structured integration, engaging multiple voices. Substance Use & Misuse, 47, 1406-1407.
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Ritter, A. (2011). Is quantity more important than quality? Addiction, 106(12), 2067-2068.
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Ritter, A. (2011). Ensuring the policy relevance of population health research: Experiences from the Drug Policy Modelling Program. NSW Public Health Bulletin, 22(2), 19-22.
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Ritter, A., (2011). The role of research evidence in drug policy development in Australia. Politicka misao, 48(5), 141-156.
Ritter, A. (2010). Conceptualising 'balance' in national drug policy. Drug and Alcohol Review, 29(4), 349-351.
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Ritter, A. (2010). Illicit drugs policy through the lens of regulation. International Journal of Drug Policy, 21(4), 265-270.
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Ritter, A. (2009). Methods for comparing drug policies - the utility of composite Drug Harm Indexes. International Journal of Drug Policy, 20(6), 475-479.
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Ritter, A. (2009). How do drug policy makers access research evidence? International Journal of Drug Policy, 20(1), 70-75.
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Ritter, A. (2008). Editorial: Speaking truth to power. Drug and Alcohol Review, 27(2), 113-114.
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Ritter, A. (2007). Editorial: Methamphetamine alarm: are we forgetting what we know? Drug and Alcohol Review, 26, 227-230.
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Ritter, A. (2007). Editorial: Comparing alcohol policies between countries: Science or silliness? Public Library of Science, Medicine, 4(4), e153.
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Ritter, A. (2006). Studying illicit drug markets: Disciplinary contributions. International Journal of Drug Policy, 17(6), 453-463.
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Ritter, A. & Bammer, G. (2010). Models of policy-making and their relevance for drug research. Drug and Alcohol Review, 29(4), 352-357.
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Ritter, A., & Cameron, J. (2006). A review of the efficacy and effectiveness of harm reduction strategies for alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs. Drug and Alcohol Review, 25, 611-624.
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Ritter, A., & Chalmers, J. (2011). The relationship between economic conditions and substance use and harm. Drug and Alcohol Review, 30(1), 1-3.
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Ritter, A., & Lancaster, K. (2013). Measuring research influence on drug policy: A case example of two epidemiological monitoring systems. International Journal of Drug Policy, 24(1), 30-37.
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Ritter, A. & McDonald, D. (2008). Illicit drug policies: scoping the interventions and taxonomies. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 15(1), 15-35.
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Ritter, A., Matthew-Simmons, F., & Carragher, N. (2012). Why the alcohol and other drug community should support gay marriage. Drug and Alcohol Review, 31(1), 1-3.
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Ritter, A., Bammer, G., Hamilton, M., Mazerolle, L. & the DPMP team. (2007). Effective drug policy: a new approach demonstrated in the Drug Policy Modelling Program. Drug and Alcohol Review, 26, 265-271.
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Shanahan, M., & Ritter, A. (2013, in press). Confronting the challenges of conducting a CBA of cannabis policies. Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy.
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Soole, D., Mazerolle, L. & Rombouts, S. (2008). School Based Drug Prevention: A review of what works. Australia and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 41(2), 259-286.
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Zeiler, I., Langland, T., Murray, J.M., & Ritter, A. (2010). Optimal targeting of Hepatitis C virus treatment among injecting drug users to those not enrolled in methadone maintenance programs. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 110, 228-233.
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