In Review What Are the Policy Implications of the Evidence on Cannabis and Psychosis? (2008)
Objective: To explore the implications for mental health services, for health education about the risks of cannabis use, and for public policy toward cannabis use of observational evidence that...
Lucke, Jayne, Hall, Wayne, Ryan, Bree, Owen, Neville
Objective: To assess whether public understandings of inherited predisposition to colorectal cancer may undermine preparedness to respond to preventive messages. Methods: Structured in-depth...
Informed Consent To Opioid Agonist Maintenance Treatment: Recommended Ethical Guidelines (2008)
BACKGROUND: Some bioethicists have questioned whether opioid addicted individuals are able to provide free and informed consent to opioid agonist maintenance treatment. Conflicting motives for...
Degenhardt, Louisa, Gibson, Amy, Mattick, Richard P., Hall, Wayne
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Lucke, Jayne, Hall, Wayne, Ryan, Bree, Owen, Neville
Objective: To assess whether public understandings of inherited predisposition to colorectal cancer may undermine preparedness to respond to preventive messages. Methods: Structured in-depth...
Christopher Doran, Theo Vos, Linda Cobiac, Wayne Hall, Isaac Asamoah, Angela Wallace, ...
This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the cost- effectiveness of interventions to reduce the burden of harm associated with alcohol misuse in Australia. The key findings suggest that all...
Christopher Doran, Theo Vos, Linda Cobiac, Wayne Hall, Isaac Asamoah, Angela Wallace, ...
This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the cost- effectiveness of interventions to reduce the burden of harm associated with alcohol misuse in Australia. The key findings suggest that all...
Informed Consent To Opioid Agonist Maintenance Treatment: Recommended Ethical Guidelines (2007)
BACKGROUND: Some bioethicists have questioned whether opioid addicted individuals are able to provide free and informed consent to opioid agonist maintenance treatment. Conflicting motives for...
Hall, Wayne, Palmer, Stuart, Ferguson, Clive, Jones, Trevor
This paper considers the delivery and assessment strategies used in two structural mechanics units at Deakin University, a leader in distance education in Australia. The two units have had...
Rapid composite tube manufacture utilizing the quickstep™ process (2007)
Silcock, Michael D., Garschke, Claudia, Hall, Wayne, Fox, Bronwyn
In this study, a novel method for manufacturing composite tubes utilizing the QuickstepTM process has been developed. Tubes manufactured from `quick-cure' Toray G83C prepreg have demonstrated highly...
Treloar, Susan., Morley, Katherine I., Taylor, Sandra., Hall, Wayne.
Objective: This exploratory, pilot study aimed to investigate motivations and reflections of participants who had provided epidemiological information, blood samples and access to clinical records...
Reducing cannabis-impaired driving: Is there sufficient evidence for drug-testing of drivers? (2007)
Rapid composite tube manufacture utilizing the quickstep™ process (2007)
Silcock, Michael D., Garschke, Claudia, Hall, Wayne, Fox, Bronwyn
In this study, a novel method for manufacturing composite tubes utilizing the QuickstepTM process has been developed. Tubes manufactured from `quick-cure' Toray G83C prepreg have demonstrated highly...
Hall, Wayne, Palmer, Stuart, Ferguson, Clive, Jones, Trevor
This paper considers the delivery and assessment strategies used in two structural mechanics units at Deakin University, a leader in distance education in Australia. The two units have had...
Changes in the initiation of heroin use after a reduction in heroin supply (2006)
Carolyn Day, Louisa Degenhardt, Wayne Hall
Increasing heroin use in Australia over the past 30 years has been associated with a decline in the age of initiation to heroin use. The 2001 Australian heroin shortage was used to assess the effects...
Stuart Gilmour, Louisa Degenhardt, Wayne Hall, Carolyn Day
BACKGROUND: Intervention time series analysis (ITSA) is an important method for analysing the effect of sudden events on time series data. ITSA methods are quasi-experimental in nature and the...
Finite element modelling of metallic tubular crash structures with an explicit code (2006)
Silcock, Michael, Hall, Wayne, Fox, Bronwyn, Warrior, Nick
Numerous experimental studies have been carried out to investigate the collapse of tubular metallic crash structures under axial compression. Some simple theoretical models have been developed but...
Changes in the initiation of heroin use after a reduction in heroin supply (2006)
Carolyn Day, Louisa Degenhardt, Wayne Hall
Increasing heroin use in Australia over the past 30 years has been associated with a decline in the age of initiation to heroin use. The 2001 Australian heroin shortage was used to assess the effects...
Stuart Gilmour, Louisa Degenhardt, Wayne Hall, Carolyn Day
BACKGROUND: Intervention time series analysis (ITSA) is an important method for analysing the effect of sudden events on time series data. ITSA methods are quasi-experimental in nature and the...
Online student portfolios for demonstration of engineering graduate attributes (2006)
Engineers Australia is the Australian professional body that accredits undergraduate engineering programs. It espouses an ‘outcomes-based’ program accreditation philosophy, but imposes...
Finite element modelling of metallic tubular crash structures with an explicit code (2006)
Silcock, Michael, Hall, Wayne, Fox, Bronwyn, Warrior, Nick
Numerous experimental studies have been carried out to investigate the collapse of tubular metallic crash structures under axial compression. Some simple theoretical models have been developed but...
Online student portfolios for demonstration of engineering graduate attributes (2006)
Engineers Australia is the Australian professional body that accredits undergraduate engineering programs. It espouses an ‘outcomes-based’ program accreditation philosophy, but imposes...
Improving on- and off-campus student performance in structural mechanics (2005)
Hall, Wayne, Ferguson, Clive, Jones, Trevor, Palmer, Stuart
This paper investigates the performance of 329 (173 on- and 186 off-campus) students enrolled in two structural mechanics units at Deakin University, a leader in engineering distance-education...
Substance use and mental health in longitudinal perspective (2005)
Teeson, Marree, Degenhart, Louisa, Hall, Wayne, Linskey, Michael, Toumbourou, John, Patton, George
Substance use and mental health in longitudinal perspective (2005)
Teeson, Marree, Degenhart, Louisa, Hall, Wayne, Linskey, Michael, Toumbourou, John, Patton, George
Improving on- and off-campus student performance in structural mechanics (2005)
Hall, Wayne, Ferguson, Clive, Jones, Trevor, Palmer, Stuart
This paper investigates the performance of 329 (173 on- and 186 off-campus) students enrolled in two structural mechanics units at Deakin University, a leader in engineering distance-education...
Substance use and mental health in longitudinal perspective (2005)
Teeson, Marree, Degenhart, Louisa, Hall, Wayne, Linskey, Michael, Toumbourou, John, Patton, George
Evaluating Factors Responsible for the Heroin Shortage (2004)
Degenhardt, Louisa, Reuter, Peter, Collins, Linette, Hall, Wayne
An Overview of Australia’s Heroin Markets (2004)
Degenhardt, Louisa, Hall, Wayne, Topp, Libby, Collins, Linette, Dietze , Paul, Christie, Paul
Is there a discrete cannabis psychosis? (2004)
Hall, Wayne, Degenhardt, Louisa
This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the psychiatry and neuroscience of Cannabis sativa (marijuana), with particular emphasis on psychotic disorders. It outlines the very...
Heroin-assisted treatment as a response to the public health problem of opiate dependence (2002)
Fischer, Benedikt, Rehm, Jürgen, Kirst, Maritt, Casas, Miguel, Hall, Wayne, Krausz, Michael, ...
Injection drug use (involving the injection of illicit opiates) poses serious public health problems in many countries. Research has indicated that injection drug users are at higher risk for...
Atypical antipsychotics in the treatment of schizophrenia - Cost is a crucial issue (2001)
Prior, Cliff, Clements, Judi, Rowett, Michelle, Taylor, David, Rowsell, Rhiannon, Link, Christopher, ...
EDITOR---Geddes et al highlight the poor quality of research into antipsychotic drugs.1 People who use these medicines, and their carers, would strongly echo these views. Yet the authors use these...
Comorbidity between cannabis use and psychosis: modelling some possible relationships (2001)
Degenhardt, Louisa, Hall, Wayne, Lynskey, Michael
One issue that has raised particular concern over the past few decades is the possibility that cannabis use may be a cause in some sense of psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia. This concern has...
Changes in heroin availability in Sydney, Australia in early 2001 (2001)
Rouen, David, Dolan, Kate, Day, Carolyn, Topp, Libby, Darke, Shane, Hall, Wayne
Staff at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) first became aware of reports of significant decreases in the availability of heroin in Sydney in the second week of January 2001. A...
The structural determinants of youth drug use (2001)
Spooner, Catherine, Hall, Wayne, Lynskey, Michael
This report was commissioned by the Australian National Council on Drugs (ANCD) and summarizes the available literature on the structural determinants of youth drug use. It reports on the content of...
Edwards, Griffith, West, Robert, Babor, Thomas F., Hall, Wayne
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The health and psychological effects of cannabis use (2001)
Hall, Wayne, Degenhardt, Louisa, Lynskey, Michael
This is an updated version of a review of the health and psychological effects of cannabis use that was commissioned in May 1992 by the Australian National Task Force on Cannabis. The earlier review...
Degenhardt, Louisa, Hall, Wayne, Adelstein, Barbara-Ann
There has been a substantial increase in both the number and the rate of opiate overdose deaths in Australia over the past three decades. In 1964, there were 6 deaths due to opiates among those aged...
Illicit drug use in Australia: epidemiology, use patterns and associated harm (2000)
Darke, Shane, Ross, Joanne, Hando, Julie, Hall, Wayne, Degenhardt, Louisa
Educational outcomes and adolescent cannabis use (report) (2000)
This document summarises cross-sectional and prospective research on the possible effects of cannabis on educational outcomes. It presents an overview of cannabis use among Australian youth, and...
Rolleston revisited; (Book review) (2000)
From time to time Addiction publishes invited reviews of classical texts with each reviewer taking a book of his or her choosing. This month we are pleased to present Wayne Hall’s piece on the...
Transcending methadone [Dissecting room] (2000)
The use of amphetamines, cocaine, and heroin by young people in the UK and other countries has produced a substantial demand for drug-misuse treatment over the past several decades. In Community...
The Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS) 1996-2000 (2000)
Darke, Shane, Hall, Wayne, Topp, Libby
The 2000 Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS) represents the fifth year of existence for the IDRS. The main purpose of the IDRS is to provide annual strategic early warning of emerging drug trends in...
Humenuik, Rachel, Ali, Robert, White, Jason, Hall, Wayne, Farrell, Michael
An expert workshop in January 1999 drew together a series of expert papers revising the international and national literature in respect to methadone tolerance in relation to safe initiation into...
Role of maintenance treatment in opioid dependence (1999)
Ward, Jeff, Hall, Wayne, Mattick, Richard P.
Methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) involves the daily administration of the oral opioid agonist methadone as a treatment for opioid dependence-a persistent disorder with a substantial risk of...
Role of maintenance treatment in opioid dependence (1999)
Ward, Jeff, Hall, Wayne, Mattick, Richard P.
Methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) involves the daily administration of the oral opioid agonist methadone as a treatment for opioid dependence-a persistent disorder with a substantial risk of...
Alcohol use disorders: who should be treated and how? (1999)
This innovative book considers ways to resolve the imbalance between the demand and supply of mental health services. Treatment services in most countries reach only a minority of people identified...
Appraisals of the health effects of cannabis: ideology and evidence (1999)
The cannabis policy debate in the USA and many other Western countries has often been represented as a forced choice between two positions: Doves who argue that cannabis use is harmless, and hence it...
Kalant, Harold, Corrigal, William, Hall, Wayne, Smart, Reginald
The Health Effects of Cannabis is a definitive reference text on the adverse, and also the potentially beneficial, effects of cannabis use. Internationally recognized experts in the field contribute...
The social impacts of the Cannabis Expiation Notice Scheme in South Australia: summary report (1999)
Ali, Robert, Christie, Paul, Lenton, Simon, Hawks, David, Sutton, Adam, Hall, Wayne, ...
This study aimed to compare the social impacts of the two main models found in Australia for dealing with minor cannabis offences: total prohibition, and prohibition with civil penalties. In...
Heroin use In Australia: its impact on public health and public order (1999)
Hall, Wayne, Lynskey, Michael, Degenhardt, Louisa
This report describes what research over the past decade has revealed about the impact of heroin use on public health and public order in Australia. It summarises what is known about: the prevalence...
Current state of research on illicit drugs in Australia : an information document (1999)
Hando, Julie, Hall, Wayne, Rutter, Scott, Dolan, Kate
This document provides a summary of research on illicit drug use during the 1990s. Topics covered are epidemiology of illicit drug use in Australia (prevalence and patterns among the general...
Opium in Britain: conflicting and converging interests [Dissecting room] (1999)
In early 19th-century Britain, opium was the aspirin and benzodiazepine of its day. It was available, without medical prescription, from any corner shop in small quantities at a price that could be...
Ward, Jeff, Mattick, Richard P., Hall, Wayne
The 1980s and 1990s have witnessed a worldwide epidemic of heroin addiction, and countries around the world have moved to put in place opiate replacement therapy programs to deal with this problem....
The use of methadone during maintenance treatment: pharmacology, dosage and treatment outcome (1998)
Ward, Jeff, Mattick, Richard P., Hall, Wayne
The 1980s and 1990s have witnessed a worldwide epidemic of heroin addiction, and countries around the world have moved to put in place opiate replacement therapy programs to deal with this problem....
The use of urinalysis during opioid replacement therapy (1998)
Ward, Jeff, Mattick, Richard P., Hall, Wayne
The 1980s and 1990s have witnessed a worldwide epidemic of heroin addiction, and countries around the world have moved to put in place opiate replacement therapy programs to deal with this problem....
Ward, Jeff, Mattick, Richard P., Hall, Wayne
The 1980s and 1990s have witnessed a worldwide epidemic of heroin addiction, and countries around the world have moved to put in place opiate replacement therapy programs to deal with this problem....
The role of counselling and psychological therapy (1998)
Ward, Jeff, Mattick, Richard P., Hall, Wayne
The 1980s and 1990s have witnessed a worldwide epidemic of heroin addiction, and countries around the world have moved to put in place opiate replacement therapy programs to deal with this problem....
The future of opioid replacement therapy (1998)
Ward, Jeff, Mattick, Richard P., Hall, Wayne
The 1980s and 1990s have witnessed a worldwide epidemic of heroin addiction, and countries around the world have moved to put in place opiate replacement therapy programs to deal with this problem....
Creating space for a more reasoned debate about drug policy (1998)
A prerequisite for a more reasoned debate is the demilitarization of the language of drug policy. Drug use is not an external enemy that poses a threat to the survival of the state and hence must be...
Mattick, Richard P., Oliphant, Dorothy, Ward, Jeff, Hall, Wayne
The 1980s and 1990s have witnessed a worldwide epidemic of heroin addiction, and countries around the world have moved to put in place opiate replacement therapy programs to deal with this problem....
The effectiveness of methadone treatment 1: heroin use and crime (1998)
Ward, Jeff, Mattick, Richard P., Hall, Wayne
The 1980s and 1990s have witnessed a worldwide epidemic of heroin addiction, and countries around the world have moved to put in place opiate replacement therapy programs to deal with this problem....
The effectiveness of methadone treatment 2: HIV and infectious hepatitis (1998)
Ward, Jeff, Mattick, Richard P., Hall, Wayne
The 1980s and 1990s have witnessed a worldwide epidemic of heroin addiction, and countries around the world have moved to put in place opiate replacement therapy programs to deal with this problem....
The provision of methadone within prison settings (1998)
Ward, Jeff, Mattick, Richard P., Hall, Wayne
The 1980s and 1990s have witnessed a worldwide epidemic of heroin addiction, and countries around the world have moved to put in place opiate replacement therapy programs to deal with this problem....
Psychiatric comorbidity among the opioid dependent (1998)
Ward, Jeff, Mattick, Richard P., Hall, Wayne
The 1980s and 1990s have witnessed a worldwide epidemic of heroin addiction, and countries around the world have moved to put in place opiate replacement therapy programs to deal with this problem....
Proceedings of an international opioid overdose symposium (1998)
The aim of the International Opioid Overdose Symposium was to review trends in illicit opioid overdose deaths in a number of countries in order to identify strategies for preventing such deaths....
An ongoing debate: book review of Marijuana myths, marijuana facts- Zimmer & Morgan (1997)
Attitudes toward marijuana use have divided Americans for over two decades. In the early 1970s when marijuana use was widespread a presidential commission recommended that it be decriminalized....
Hando, Julie, Topp, Libby, Hall, Wayne
Amphetamines remain a popular illicit drug among young adults in Australia and a number of other countries, particularly by injection. A. significant increase in the number of people presenting to...
The Swiss scientific studies of medically prescribed narcotics (1997)
The "scientific studies of medically prescribed narcotics" in Switzerland (hereafter for brevity the Swiss trials) were set up to investigate the feasibility and effectiveness of prescribing...
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Prescription drug utilization following patient co-payment changes in Australia (1997)
McManus, Peter, Donnelly, Neil, Henry, David, Hall, Wayne, Primrose, John, Lindner, Julie
In November 1990 major patient co-payment changes were introduced into the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), which accounts for around 90% of all community prescriptions in Australia. Interrupted...
Patterns of amphetamine misuse in Australia (1997)
Drug abuse is now a global problem, affecting the health and safety of individuals and threatening the stability and economies of nations. The pandemic of drug abuse shows no sign of abating despite...
Are there two types of alcoholism? (1996)
Hall, Wayne, Sannibale, Claudia
n 1981 Cloninger and colleagues1 derived a binary typology of alcoholism from studies of the disorder among children of alcoholic and non-alcoholic parents who were adopted shortly after birth in...
Ross, Joanne, Darke, Shane, Hall, Wayne
A sample of 210 heroin users who had used benzodiazepines during the preceding 6 months were interviewed about their benzodiazepine use. Forty-one percent of the sample reported having used...
Darke, Shane, Ross, Joanne, Hall, Wayne
A sample of 329 heroin users were interviewed regarding their personal experience of non-fatal heroin overdose. Experience of overdose was widespread, with two-thirds of subjects (68%) reporting...
Overdose among heroin users in Sydney, Australia, 2. Responses to overdose (1996)
Darke, Shane, Ross, Joanne, Hall, Wayne
A sample of 329 heroin users were interviewed about their experiences at other peoples' heroin overdoses. The overwhelming majority (86%) had witnessed a heroin overdose, on a median of six...
HIV risk behaviour of IDUs before, during and after imprisonment in New South Wales (1996)
Dolan, Kate, Wodak, Alex, Hall, Wayne, Gaughwin, Matt, Rae, Fiona
How can we reduce heroin ''overdose'' death? (1996)
Deaths from heroin "overdose" have increased steadily over the past decade in the absence of any public health measures specifically aimed at reducing them. Recent research suggests that many of...
In this book Platt updates an earlier review of research on the treatment of heroin addiction. He includes new material on the epidemiology of HIV and AIDS in injecting drug users and discusses...
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Hall, Wayne, Hando, Julie, Darke, Shane, Ross, Joanne
A sample of 301 amphetamine users were interviewed about their experiences of psychological symptoms prior to, and subsequent to, their initiation of amphetamine use. Psychological morbidity was...
Harm reduction as a focus for research (1996)
This Article does not have an abstract
Correlates of the perceived health risks of marijuana use among Australian adults (1996)
A quota sample of 3272 people from the Australian population was surveyed by telephone about the health risks of marijuana use. Three-fifths of the sample (62%) believed that there were health...
Steering a course between the Charybdis of credulity and the Scylla of scepticism (1996)
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Strang, John, Darke, Shane, Hall, Wayne, Farrell, Michael, Ali, Robert
Home based supplies of naloxone would save lives Non-fatal overdose is an occupational risk of heroin misuse1 and fatal overdose is a common cause of premature death in heroin users.2 3 4 One of the...
Swift, Wendy, Copeland, Jan, Hall, Wayne
Two hundred and sixty-seven women were interviewed in a national survey examining the characteristics, treatment needs and treatment experiences of Australian women who had received treatment for...
The effectiveness and safety of methadone maintenance (Letter to the Editor) (1996)
Ward, Jeff, Mattick, Richard P., Hall, Wayne, Darke, Shane
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Methadone maintenance reduces injecting in prison (Letters) (1996)
Dolan, Kate, Hall, Wayne, Wodak, Alex
EDITOR,--HIV can spread rapidly among injecting drug users in prison, even when HIV prevalence is low.1 Despite this, few countries have implemented HIV prevention measures for inmates and no...
The Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS) Trial: final report (1996)
Hando, Julie, Darke, Susannah, O'Brien, Shane, Maher, Lisa, Hall, Wayne
In 1995, the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre was commissioned by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services to revise the Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS) first...
Methadone maintenance treatment as a crime control measure (1996)
This bulletin reviews research that is relevant to answering the question: should the number of persons enrolled in methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) be expanded as part of a larger strategy to...
Bleach availability and risk behaviours in prison in New South Wales (1995)
Dolan, Kate, Hall, Wayne, Wodak, Alex
This study investigated the access of NSW prisoners to disinfectants for syringe decontamination and the prevalence of injecting drug use, syringe sharing, tattooing and sexual activity in prison....
Benzodiazepine prescribing in general practice: dispelling some myths (1995)
Mant, Andrea, Mattick, Richard P., De Burgh, Simon, Donnelly, Neil, Hall, Wayne
The objective was to analyse clinical and non-clinical factors associated with the receipt of a prescription for a benzodiazepine among general practice patients. A survey of 110 consecutive patient...
Is syringe exhange feasible in a prison setting? An exploratory study of the issues (1995)
Rutter, Scott, Dolan, Kate, Wodak, Alex, Hall, Wayne, Maher, Lisa, Dixon, David
Injecting and sexual risk-taking behavior among regular amphetamine users (1995)
Darke, Shane, Ross, Joanne, Cohen, Julia, Hando, Julie, Hall, Wayne
A sample of 301 regular amphetamine users were interviewed regarding injecting and sexual risk-taking behaviours. Two-thirds of subjects were injecting the drug, with males being 1.8 times more...
Gossop, Michael, Darke, Shane, Griffiths, Paul, Hando, Julie, Powis, Beverly, Hall, Wayne, ...
The Severity of Dependence Scale (SDS) was devised to provide a short, easily administered scab which can be used to measure the degree of dependence experienced by users of different types of drugs....
Making research more relevant to practice (Editorial) (1995)
This Article does not have an abstract
Seminars in alcohol and drug misuse - Chick,J., Cantwell, R. (Book review) (1995)
This book exemplifies the type of product regularly produced by the various medical[ British Colleges, namely, an edited collection of papers of uniformly high standard that have been written by...
Heroin addiction and drug policy: the British system. Strang J., Gossop M. (Book review) (1995)
According to the editors, "The plain truth of the matter is that there is no British System' [i.e.] ... no set of rules or central policy underpinning an organised system to which observed benefits...
Hall, Wayne, Chen, Rosemarie, Evans, Barry
Data are presented on the characteristics of clients admitted to an Australian therapeutic community, The Buttery, between 1980 and 1992. The typical client was a 28-year-old male with a primary...
Management and treatment efficacy of drug and alcohol problems: what do doctors believe? (1995)
Roche, Ann M., Parle, Michael D., Stubbs, Joanne M., Hall, Wayne, Saunders, John B.
We conducted a survey of the attitudes of postgraduate medical trainees in Australia on the management of drug and alcohol problems and examined the medical practitioner's role in managing drug and...
Levels and correlates of polydrug use among heroin use and regular amphetamine users (1995)
Data from a sample of 329 primary heroin users and from a sample of 301 regular amphetamine users were analysed in order to determine the extent and correlates of polydrug use among illicit drug...
The public health significance of cannabis use in Australia (1995)
A fair appraisal of the public health significance of cannabis use has been hampered by the polarised opinions about its health effects expressed by partisans on both sides of the debate on its legal...
Methadone maintenance treatment (Letters) (1995)
Mattick, Richard, Hall, Wayne, Ward, Jeff, Farrell, Michael, Gossop, Michael, Strang, John, ...
EDITOR,--Our review of methadone maintenance treatment1 elicited a range of views.2 Wolfgang Poser and colleagues correctly comment that methadone treatment protects against death due to an overdose...
Benzodiazepine prescribing in general practice: dispelling some myths (1995)
Mant, Andrea, Mattick, Richard P, Burgh, Simon De, Donnelly, Neil, Hall, Wayne
The objective was to analyse clinical and non-clinical factors associated with the receipt of a prescription for a benzodiazepine among general practice patients. A survey of 110 consecutive patient...
Mattick,Richard P., Hall, Wayne
This report presents outlines for approaches to intervening with opioid-dependent individuals. These recommendations are based on a review of the extant treatment-outcome literature, a survey of...
Meta-analytic review of the efficacy of smoking cessation interventions (1994)
Baillie, Andrew J., Mattick, Richard P., Hall, Wayne, Webster, Pam
A meta-analysis of randomized and controlled evaluations of the efficacy of smoking cessation interventions compared 146 estimates of the difference in abstinence rates between treated and control...
Darke, Shane, Swift, Wendy, Hall, Wayne
A sample of 222 methadone maintenance clients was tested for levels of depression, anxiety, and anti-social personality disorder. The prevalence of each type of psychopathology was high. There were...
Darke, Shane, Swift, Wendy, Hall, Wayne, Ross, Michael
A sample of 222 methadone maintenance clients were interviewed regarding current injecting and needle risk-taking in order to ascertain factors associated with these behaviours. Just over half (55%)...
HIV risk-taking behaviour among amphetamine users in Sydney, Australia (1994)
A survey was undertaken of needle-sharing and sexually risky behaviour among 231 Australian amphetamine users, half of whom usually injected amphetamine. The prevalence of risky needle use and sexual...
The effectiveness of methadone maintenance treatment: an overview (1994)
Ward, Jeff, Mattick, Richard P., Hall, Wayne
This paper reviews the evidence for the effectiveness of methadone maintenance as used in the treatment of opioid dependence. Findings from randomized controlled trials and observational studies...
The relationship between route of administration and the adverse effects of amphetamine use (dependence symptoms, treatment-seeking, adverse psychological symptoms and violence) were examined among...
Darke, Shane, Hall, Wayne, Swift, Wendy
A sample of 222 methadone maintenance (MM) clients were tested for a diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD). The majority (60.8%) of clients qualified for a lifetime diagnosis of ASPD,...
Copeland, Jan, Hall, Wayne, Didcott, Peter, Biggs, Vicki
Eighty subjects from a specialist women's service (SWS) and eighty subjects from two traditional mixed-sex treatment services (TMS) were recruited to a comparative, longitudinal study of changes in...
Hall, Wayne., Hunter, Ernest, Spargo, Randolph
This paper reports on the prevalance of alcohol-related problems among drinkers in a stratified random sample of the adult Aboriginal population of the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Subjects...
Who's who? A report on the characteristics of clients seen at We Help Ourselves 1985-1991 (1993)
Swift, Wendy, Darke Shane, Hall, Wayne, Popple, Garth
We Help Ourselves (WHOS) was one of the first therapeutic communities established for the treatment of drug-related problems in Australia, commencing operation in 1972. Since that time, a number of...
Characteristics of clients admitted to the Buttery, a therapeutic community, 1980-1992 (1993)
Hall, Wayne, Chen, Rosemarie, Evans, Barry
Therapeutic communities had their origins in the late 1940s when Maxwell Jones, a psychiatrist working in London, established a residential community as an alternative to medical treatment for young...
Darke, Shane, Swift, Wendy, Hall, Wayne, Ross, Michael
Methadone maintenance clients who used benzodiazepines were compared with other methadone maintenance clients on a range of drug use and psychosocial treatment outcome measures. Despite being on...
Crime and drug use among applicants for methadone maintenance (1993)
Hall, Wayne, Bell, James, Carless, Jacqueline
The relationship between crime and drug use was examined in 313 Australian opioid addicts who applied for entry to methadone treatment. More than 90% of them had recorded one or more convictions for...
Hall, Wayne, Darke, Shane, Ross, Michael, Wodak, Alex
Data are presented on the patterns of drug use and HIV risk-taking of daily amphetamine and opioid injectors among 1245 injecting drug users who were interviewed in Sydney in 1989. About one-third of...
Hall, Wayne, Saunders, John B., Babor, Thomas F., Aasland, Olaf G., Amundsen, Arvid, Hodgson, Ray, ...
The cross-cultural validity of the Alcohol Dependence Syndrome was tested on 13 symptoms of alcohol dependence which were assessed as part of a WHO collaborative study of the early detection of...
Methadone maintenance treatment in prisons: the New South Wales experience (1993)
Hall, Wayne, Ward, Jeff, Mattick, Richard P.
This paper uses the New South Wales experience with methadone maintenance treatment in prison to address the question: should methadone maintenance treatment be provided in Australian prisons for...
Alcohol and recreational drug use by HIV-seropositive homosexual men (1992)
Guinan, James J., Hall, Wayne, Gold, Julian, Clarke, J. Christopher
The objectives of this study were to describe the patterns of alcohol and recreational drug use of HIV-seropositive homosexual men and to determine the effect of alcohol use on HIV risk-taking...
Anxiety, depression and HIV related symptomatology across the spectrum of HIV disease (1992)
Perdices, Michael, Dunbar, Nicola, Grunseit, Anne, Hall, Wayne, Cooper, David A.
Levels of anxiety and depression were assessed for 207 HIV seropositive homosexual/bisexual men (AIDS = 34, ARC = 72, asymptomatic HIV infection = 101), and 36 seronegative controls. Lymphocyte...
Benzodiazepine use and HIV risk-taking behavior among injecting drug users (1992)
Darke, Shane, Hall, Wayne, Ross, Michael, Wodak, Alex
This paper examines the prevalence of benzodiazepine use, and its relationship to other drug use and HIV risk-taking among a sample of 1245 injecting drug users (IDU). Approximately a third (36.6%)...
Changes in criminal activity after entering methadone maintenance (1992)
Bell, James, Hall, Wayne, Byth, Karen
The impact of different approaches to methadone maintenance on the level of crime committed by heroin addicts was examined in a cohort of addicts entering methadone treatment. The cohort comprises...
Darke, Shane, Hall, Wayne, Wodak, Alex, Heather, Nick, Ward, Jeff
This article presents a new instrument with which to assess the effects of opiate treatment. The Opiate Treatment Index (OTI) is multi-dimensional in structure, with scales measuring six...
Rollnick, Stephen, Heather, Nick, Gold, Ruth, Hall, Wayne
Excessive drinkers (141) identified in medical settings who were not seeking help for an alcohol problem completed a questionnaire based on Prochaska and DiClemente's stages of change model....
Prevalence and predictors of psychopathology among opioid users (1992)
Darke, Shane, Wodak, Alex, Hall, Wayne, Heather, Nick, Ward, Jeff
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Solowij, Nadia, Hall, Wayne, Lee, Nicole
'Ecstasy' (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine or MDMA) is a recreational drug that is gaining popularity world wide. There is a paucity of research regarding the ways in which Ecstasy is used and the...
Ward, Jeff, Darke, Shane, Hall, Wayne, Mattick, Richard
This paper examines the changes that have occurred in methadone maintenance programmes in response to the advent of HIV and the adoption of harm minimization policies, and the implications of these...
Calculating standard drink units: international comparisons (1991)
Miller, William R., Heather, Nick, Hall, Wayne
Simple calculation rules are providing for converting alcohol consumption data among four standard units currently used by researchers and educators in the USA, Canada, the UK, and Austraila. A plea...
Darke, Shane, Hall, Wayne, Heather, Nick, Ward, Jeff, Wodak, Alex
The initiation and maintenance of substantial behaviour change is required to reduce the spread of HIV infection among the intravenous drug-using population. In order to ascertain the efficacy of...
Darke, Shane, Heather, Nick, Hall, Wayne, Ward, Jeff, Wodak, Alex
The efficient and accurate measurement of recent drug use is an essential component of treatment and research among opioid users. Urinalysis results alone will not give sufficient information to...
Hyperactivity and the fragile X syndrome (1991)
Einfeld, Stewart, Hall, Wayne, Levy, Florence
Workers who have claimed an association between Fragile X [fra(x)] Syndrome and Hyperactivity and aggressive behavior have done so despite the lack of controlled studies using standard diagnostic...
Depression sub-typing: unitary, binary or arbitrary? (1991)
Parker, Gordon, Hall, Wayne, Boyce, Philip, Hadzipavlovic, Dusan, Mitchell, Philip, Wilhelm, Kay, ...
The strongest statistical support for the binary view of depression has been provided by factor (principal components) analytic studies which delineate a bipolar factor with features interpreted as...
An analysis of recent studies of minimal and intensive cognitive-behavioural treatments for problem drinking was undertaken to decide to whether a lack of statistical power explains the failure of...
The Opiate Treatment Index (OTI) researchers' manual (1991)
Darke, Shane, Ward, Jeff, Hall, Wayne, Heather, Nick, Wodak, Alex
One of the major problems of opiate treatment evaluation research has been the lack of comparability of research findings. Studies vary both in the domains selected as outcome variables and in the...
Drug use, injecting practices and sexual behavior of opioid users in Sydney, Australia (1990)
Darke, Shane, Hall, Wayne, Carless, Jacqueline
This paper examines drug use, injection practices, and sexual behaviour in a sample of 100 opioid users, both in and out of current opiate treatment. Approximately three-quarters of subjects reported...
The nature of drug dependence - Edwards, G., Lader, M. (Book review) (1990)
Why is it that some drug users continue to use drugs when their drug use harms their health or their social relationships? An influential answer has been “because they have become dependent on the...
On doing the 'impossible': inferring that a putative causal relationship does not exist (1990)
A simple heuristic is proposed for drawing a warranted inference that a causal relationship does not exist between two events. It is illustrated by a study of the putative indirect causal...
On doing the impossible: reply (Letters to the Editor) (1990)
This Article does not have an abstract
The drug market position of cocaine among young adults in Sydney (1990)
Homel, Peter, Flaherty, Bruce, Reilly, Catherine, Hall, Wayne, Carless, Jacqueline
A study was undertaken to explore the 'market position' of cocaine among young adults in Sydney, Australia. The intention was to estimate how likely Australia is to experience an epidemic of cocaine...
Autism is not associated with the fragile X syndrome (1989)
Einfeld, Stewart, Molony, Helen, Hall, Wayne
We provided a controlled test of the hypothesis that individuals with the Martin-Bell or Fragile X [fra(x)] syndrome are more autistic than mentally retarded control individuals. A sample of fra(x)...
Behavior completion mechanisms, anxiety and agoraphobia (1989)
McConaghy, Nathaniel, Silove, Derrick, Hall, Wayne
Little attention has been paid to the situations which provoke the initial attack of anxiety in agoraphobia. According to the behaviour completion hypothesis many normal subjects experience increased...
Evaluating mental health practice: methods and applications - Milne, D. (book review) (1989)
This book has a laudable aim with which I heartily agree: "to encourage and enable mental health practitioners to do more and better evaluations of their work". It promises to show how research...
The limitations of multivariate statistical methods in the mensuration of human misery (1989)
Multivariate statistical methods have been widely used in the analysis of the multiple symptom data which are routinely collected in psychiatric research on the classification of depressive...
The logic of a controversy: the case of Agent Orange in Australia (1989)
Since 1979 the Vietnam Veterans' Association of Australia (VVAA) has claimed that exposure to the herbicide Agent Orange in Vietnam has adversely affected the health of Vietnam veterans and their...
Pain research and treatment - Leviton, S.J., Berkowitz, H.L. (Book review) (1989)
This compilation of four papers is part of the Clinical Insight Monograph series published by the APA. The first chapter, by Patemak. reviews the past two decades of research on the endogenous opoids...
From their earliest recorded history the peoples of modem day Russia have had a problem with drinking in that a substantial minority of the population engages in recurrent, heavy binge drinking....
Repetition strain injury: an Australian epidemic of upper limb pain (1988)
An analysis is provided of a recent Australian epidemic of an upper limb regional pain syndrome known as ‘repetition strain injury’ (RSI). ‘RSI’ was originally attributed to occupational...
A simplified logic of causal inference (1987)
This paper provides a simplified method for evaluating the evidence in favour of a causal claim. It analyses the evidence bearing upon such a claim in terms of two questions: Do the putative cause...
Can localised brain impairment be simulated on neuropsychological test profiles? (1987)
Hayward, Linda, Hall, Wayne, Hunt, Michael, Zubrick, Stephen R.
We asked 28 registered nurses with varying degrees of experience in working with neurological and neurosurgical patients to fake results on 10 neuropsychological tests in such a way as to be...
Determinants of chronic orofacial pain (1987)
Gerschman, Jack A., Hall, Wayne, Reade, Peter C., Burrows, Graham D., Wright, Janice L., Holwill, Brendan J.
colon; A multidisciplinary study was conducted at the Orofacial Pain Clinic, The Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne, to investigate the relationship between independent and dependent (outcome)...
This is a comprehensive and useful source book on the research and clinical literatures that are relevant to understanding the placebo effect. It is divided into six sections: definition,...
Statistical power in psychiatric research (1986)
Statistical power is neglected in much psychiatric research, with the consequence that many studies do not provide a reasonable chance of detecting differences between groups if they exist in the...
Social class and survival on the SS Titanic (1986)
Passengers' chances of surviving the sinking of the S.S. Titanic were related to their sex and their social class: females were more likely to survive than males, and the chances of survival declined...
Simultaneous multiple comparison procedures for categorical data (1986)
Methods are outlined for performing simultaneous multiple comparisons between groups when the dependent variable is one in which subjects are assigned to one of two or more categories. These methods...
Estimating the economic costs of schizophrenia (1985)
Hall, Wayne, Goldstein, Gregory, Andrews, Gavin, Lapsley, Helen, Bartels, Robert, Silove, Derek
The economic costs of schizophrenia in New South Wales, Australia, were estimated using an incidence-based approach. The incidence of the disease was obtained from a case register. Direct treatment...
Do Vietnam veterans suffer from toxic neurasthenia? (1985)
This paper evaluates the claim that Vietnam veterans with psychiatric disorders are suffering from toxic neurasthenia — a neurasthenic syndrome caused by exposure to pesticides while serving in...
Early sensory perceptual changes in Huntington's disease (1985)
Hayward, Linda, Zubrick, Stephen R., Hall, Wayne
Forty-four patients at risk for Huntington's disease and seventeen diagnosed as having the disease were studied longitudinally over a nine-year period to assess the evolution of cognitive impairment....
The problem of multiple inference in psychiatric research (1985)
This paper deals with the problem of multiple inference in psychiatric research, an issue which arises whenever a researcher has to make more than one statistical inference in a single research...
The economic costs of schizophrenia: implications for public policy (1985)
Andrews, Gavin, Hall, Wayne, Goldstein, Gregory, Lapsley, Helen, Bartels, Robert, Silove, Derrick
The direct and indirect costs associated with schizophrenia in Australia were calculated using the incidence approach and compared with similar costings of myocardial infarction in Australia and the...
Estimating the Economic Costs of Schizophrenia (1985)
Hall, Wayne, Goldstein, Gregory, Andrews, Gavin, Lapsley, Helen, Bartels, Robert, Silove, Derek
The economic costs of schizophrenia in New South Wales, Australia, were estimated using an incidence-based approach. The incidence of the disease was obtained from a case register. Direct treatment...
MacMahon, Stephen W., Blacket, Ralph B., MacDonald, Graham J., Hall, Wayne
The associations of obesity and alcohol consumption with blood pressure and the prevalence of hypertension were studied in 5550 male and female subjects aged 25 to 64 years, surveyed in the National...
MacMahon, Stephen W., Blacket, Ralph B., MacDonald, Graham J., Hall, Wayne
The associations of obesity and alcohol consumption with blood pressure and the prevalence of hypertension were studied in 5550 male and female subjects aged 25 to 64 years, surveyed in the National...
This collection of papers attempts to provide ‘a simple, comprehensive publication addressed to basic and practical aspects of the clinical measurement of behavioural change’. Given the breadth...
McPherson, Andrew, Hall, Wayne
A cross-sectional study was carried out to compare psychiatric impairment in young unemployed men and apprentices from Sydney's western suburbs. The unemployed men were found to have a psychiatric...
A survey of practicing psychiatrists' views on the treatment of agoraphobia (1982)
Hall, Wayne, Weekes, Penny, Harvey, Robin, Andrews, Gavin
The views of practising psychiatrists on the treatment of agoraphobia were investigated as part of a Quality Assurance Project. A one in six random sample of psychiatrists was mailed a questionnaire....
Pain and laterality in a British pain clinic sample (1982)
The distribution of pain laterality was investigated in a sample of patients from a British Pain Relief Centre. The findings replicated those previously obtained by Hall et al. [1] in an American...
On "A comparison of pain rating scales", Reading, J. Psychsom Research (1982)
READING [l] has recently compared women’s ratings of episiotomy pain made on different types of rating scale and on the basis of the results made certain recommendations about how pain should be...
Psychological approaches to the evaluation of chronic pain patients (1982)
This Article does not have an abstract
On ratio scales of sensory and affective verbal pain descriptors (1981)
The cross-modality matching methods of Stevens [16] have been used by Gracely and his colleagues [4–6] to provide numerical values for “verbal pain descriptors”. These numerical values, it is...
On the lateralization of pain (1981)
Hall, Wayne, Hayward, Linda, Chapman, C. Richard
The hypothesis out forth by Merskey and Watson [16] that pain, when lateralized, occurs more often on the left was tested in a sample of 264 patients seen at the University of Washington Pain...