Addiction

A series of addiction cost types were studied, with drug addiction proving the most costly to productivity in both the workplace and home.

More than 45,000 children live in out-of-home-care in Australia today. This number is unacceptably large and reforms nationally and internationally have begun to recognise this.

People suffering through addiction should not have to commit a crime before the state will provide them with basic services, yet gaol is treated as the current fallback, argues NSW parliamentarian Daniel Mookhey, in a Fabians essay to be launched this weekend as part of a volume looking at priorities for the next NSW Labor government.

A review of studies aimed at helping indigenous people beat smoking provides some guidance to policymakers. But more and higher quality research needs to be done.

There’s a lack of evidence for Australia’s current approach to regulating program gambling, a new paper by ANZSOG says. Harm minimisation needs more research work.