National Action Plan on Illicit Drugs 2001 to 2002-03
Published by Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care under the National Drug Strategy
(endorsed by the Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy July 200)
This National Action Plan on Illicit Drugs, agreed by all jurisdictions through the Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy, provides nationally agreed direction for addressing illicit drug issues until the year 2003-04.
The Action Plan identifies seven key strategy areas for preventing the uptake of illicit drug use, and reducing the harms associated with use:
- Demand reduction
- Supply reduction
- Treatment
- Harm reduction
- Workforce development
- Research
- Monitoring illicit drug trends
- the Action Plan itself (PDF 220 KB);
- a Foldout Summary of the Action Plan (PDF 24 KB); and
- a detailed Background Paper that sets out the relevant epidemiology and other supportive material (PDF 219 KB)
Page currency, Latest update: 23 October, 2001
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