Review of volatile substance use among Indigenous people / Richard Midford, Sarah MacLean, Michelle Catto, Neil Thomson, Olivier Debuyst
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- Mt Lawley, WA : Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet, March 2011
- ©2011
- 1 online resource (19 pages)
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- Australian Indigenous healthreviews ; no. 1 (March 2011).
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"A major national review in 2006 noted that volatile substance use (VSU) is 'an issue in both Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities in Australia'[1 p. i]. The review found that 'chroming' (inhaling spray paint) and petrol sniffing are two forms of inhalant abuse that are currently common in Australia, with the practice of chroming being more common in urban and rural areas, while petrol sniffing is more common in remote Indigenous communities' [1 p. i].Most attention to VSU among Indigenous people in Australia has focused on petrol sniffing, which has been the subject of two recent inquiries by the Australian Senate, Beyond petrol sniffing: renewing hope for Indigenous communities [2], and Grasping the opportunity of Opal: Assessing the impact of the Petrol Sniffing Strategy [3]. The report of the first of these Senate inquiries concluded that Petrol sniffing causes devastation in Indigenous communities. The health impacts include chronic disability and the social impacts include violence, crime and the breakdown of community structures. Tragically, young Indigenous people are dying as a result of petrol sniffing [2 p. xv]."--[Page 1]
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