TY - BOOK AU - Darke,Shane AU - Degenhardt,Louisa AU - Mattick,Richard P. ED - National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (Australia), TI - Mortality amongst illicit drug users: epidemiology, causes, and intervention T2 - International research monographs in the addictions SN - 9780511543692 (ebook) AV - RC564 .D37 2007 U1 - 362.29/3 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Substance abuse KW - Treatment KW - Drug addicts KW - Services for KW - Mortality N1 - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); Why illicit drug-related deaths matter -- The global epidemiology of illicit drug use -- Mortality amongst drug users -- Mortality and drug overdose -- Illicit dug use and disease -- Mortality and suicide -- Mortality and trauma -- Reducing drug-related mortality -- Summary and conclusions N2 - This book was first published in 2006. Over the past 40 years the rate of illicit drug use worldwide has risen dramatically, and with it the number of deaths reported among drug-using populations. What are the clinical, ethical and psychopathological implications of these deaths? In this book, Shane Darke and his team provide the first full, synthetic review of the epidemiology, causes, prevalence, demography, and associated risk factors of illicit-drug-related mortality. In addition, they examine and evaluate interventions to reduce these deaths. The major causes of death among illicit drug users are overdose, disease, suicide and trauma. Each is independently examined. This is an important book for all clinicians and policy-makers involved in issues relating to illicit drug use UR - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511543692 ER -