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List of works by Shane Darke

A cost-effectiveness analysis of modafinil therapy for psychostimulant dependence

scientific article published in May 2010

A double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of modafinil (200 mg/day) for methamphetamine dependence

scientific article

A reduction in blood morphine concentrations amongst heroin overdose fatalities associated with a sustained reduction in street heroin purity

scientific article published on 16 February 2010

A review of drug use and driving: epidemiology, impairment, risk factors and risk perceptions

scientific article

A revised checklist for writing up research reports

Accidental Fatalities Among Heroin Users in South Australia, 1994-1997: Toxicological Findings and Circumstances of Death

journal article; published in Addiction Research & Theory in 2002

Adapting the Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS) to examine the feasibility of monitoring trends in the markets for 'party drugs'.

scientific article

Addiction Classics.

scientific article published on 25 August 2016

Age-related patterns of drug use initiation among polydrug using regular psychostimulant users

scientific article

Are non-fatal opioid overdoses misclassified suicide attempts? Comparing the associated correlates

scientific article published on 03 May 2009

Associations of borderline personality with pain, problems with medications and suicidality in a community sample of chronic non-cancer pain patients prescribed opioids for pain

scientific article

Attempted suicide among entrants to three treatment modalities for heroin dependence in the Australian Treatment Outcome Study (ATOS): prevalence and risk factors.

scientific article published in January 2004

Attempted suicide among heroin users: 12-month outcomes from the Australian Treatment Outcome Study (ATOS).

scientific article published on 9 December 2004

Attempted suicide among injecting and noninjecting cocaine users in Sydney, Australia

scientific article

Attempted suicide, self-harm, and violent victimization among regular illicit drug users

scientific article published in December 2010

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) among illicit psychostimulant users: a hidden disorder?

scientific article published on 11 February 2013

Attitudes of regular injecting drug users towards the legal status of the major illicit drugs

scientific article

Benzodiazepine use among heroin users: baseline use, current use and clinical outcome

scientific article published in May 2010

Borderline personality disorder and persistently elevated levels of risk in 36-month outcomes for the treatment of heroin dependence

scientific article published on July 2007

Borderline personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder and risk-taking among heroin users: findings from the Australian Treatment Outcome Study (ATOS).

scientific article published on April 2004

Can we predict retention in longitudinal studies of substance use? Findings from the Australian Treatment Outcome Study

scientific article published on 16 July 2015

Cardiovascular disease risk factors and symptoms among regular psychostimulant users

scientific article published on July 2010

Changes and predictors of change in the physical health status of heroin users over 24 months

scientific article

Changes in the use of medical services and prescription drugs among heroin users over two years

scientific article

Characteristics, circumstances and pathology of sudden or unnatural deaths of cases with evidence of pathological hoarding

scientific article

Characteristics, circumstances and toxicology of sudden or unnatural deaths involving very high-range alcohol concentrations

scientific article published on 9 May 2013

Childhood physical abuse, non-suicidal self-harm and attempted suicide amongst regular injecting drug users

scientific article published on 29 July 2013

Circumstances and toxicology of sudden or unnatural deaths involving alprazolam

scientific article published on 12 February 2014

Clinical Characteristics of Fatal Methamphetamine-related Stroke: A National Study

scientific article published on 17 August 2017

Clinical and Autopsy Characteristics of Fatal Methamphetamine Toxicity in Australia

scientific article

Cocaine use in New South Wales, Australia, 1996-2000: 5 year monitoring of trends in price, purity, availability and use from the illicit drug reporting system

scientific article published on June 2002

Cocaine-related fatalities in New South Wales, Australia 1993-2002.

scientific article published in February 2005

Commentary on Friguls et al. (2012): illicit drugs and pregnancy--testing is not a substitute for good clinical rapport.

scientific article published in August 2012

Commentary on Kuhns et al. (2011): Drinks and death – alcohol and the homicide victim.

scientific article published in January 2011

Commentary on Sartor et al. (2013): Trauma and drug use-more evidence for self-medication?

scientific article published in May 2013

Commentary on Singh et al. (2016): Still searching for the answer.

scientific article published in August 2016

Comparative cardiac pathology among deaths due to cocaine toxicity, opioid toxicity and non-drug-related causes.

scientific article published in December 2006

Comparative patterns of cognitive performance amongst opioid maintenance patients, abstinent opioid users and non-opioid users

scientific article

Comparative rates of violent crime among regular methamphetamine and opioid users: offending and victimization

scientific article published on 9 February 2010

Comparative toxicology of fatal heroin overdose cases and morphine positive homicide victims.

scientific article published on 3 September 2007

Comparative toxicology of intentional and accidental heroin overdose

scientific article published on 8 April 2010

Completed Suicide Among Methamphetamine Users: A National Study

scientific article published on 14 February 2018

Contributory and incidental blood concentrations in deaths involving citalopram

scientific article

Decreased heroin availability in Sydney in early 2001.

scientific article

Deficits in social perception in opioid maintenance patients, abstinent opioid users and non-opioid users

scientific article

Depression among entrants to treatment for heroin dependence in the Australian Treatment Outcome Study (ATOS): prevalence, correlates and treatment seeking

scientific article published in June 2005

Determining a diagnostic cut-off on the Severity of Dependence Scale (SDS) for cocaine dependence

scientific article published in June 2002

Diversion and misuse of pharmaceutical stimulants among illicit drug users

journal article; published in Addiction Research & Theory in 2014

Drug Trafficking: Time to Abolish the Death Penalty

Drug Trafficking: Time to Abolish the Death Penalty

Drug driving among injecting drug users in Sydney, Australia: prevalence, risk factors and risk perceptions

scientific article published in February 2004

Drug trafficking: Time to abolish the death penalty

Drug trafficking: time to abolish the death penalty

scientific article published in August 2009

Drugs and violent death: comparative toxicology of homicide and non-substance toxicity suicide victims.

scientific article published in June 2009

Erratum to “Attempted suicide among entrants to three treatment modalities for heroin dependence in the Australian treatment outcome study (ATOS): prevalence and risk factors”

article

Extending Addiction's conflict of interest policy to cover the emerging cannabis industry

scientific article published on 5 December 2017

Factor structure of psychopathy among methadone maintenance patients

article

Factors associated with 12 months continuous heroin abstinence: findings from the Australian Treatment Outcome Study (ATOS).

scientific article published in April 2005

Fatal opioid poisoning: a counterfactual model to estimate the preventive effect of treatment for opioid use disorder in England

scientific article published on 23 June 2015

From the can to the coffin: deaths among recently released prisoners.

scientific article published in February 2008

GHB use among Australians: characteristics, use patterns and associated harm

scientific article published in June 2002

Hair morphine concentrations of fatal heroin overdose cases and living heroin users

scientific article published in August 2002

Health Service Utilization Among Heroin Users

article

Health service utilization and benzodiazepine use among heroin users: findings from the Australian Treatment Outcome Study (ATOS).

scientific article published in August 2003

Heroin overdose

scientific article

Heroin overdose: research and evidence-based intervention

scientific article

Heroin supply and health: new perspectives.

scientific article published in March 2004

Heroin use in New South Wales, Australia, 1996-2000: 5 year monitoring of trends in price, purity, availability and use from the Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS).

scientific article published in February 2002

Illicit drug use and disease

Impulsivity and borderline personality as risk factors for suicide attempts among opioid-dependent individuals

scientific article published on 18 July 2009

Injecting and non-injecting cocaine use in Sydney, Australia: physical and psychological morbidity

scientific article

Investigating heterogeneity in violent offending liability among injection drug users from a developmental perspective

scientific article published on 22 April 2016

Investigating the co-occurrence of self-mutilation and suicide attempts among opioid-dependent individuals

scientific article

Large variation in measures used to assess outcomes of opioid dependence treatment: A systematic review of longitudinal observational studies

scientific article published on 2 October 2017

Levamisole as an adulterant in a cocaine overdose fatality.

scientific article published in June 2010

Long-term mortality, remission, criminality and psychiatric comorbidity of heroin dependence: 11-year findings from the Australian Treatment Outcome Study

scientific article published on 2 March 2015

Major physical and psychological harms of methamphetamine use

scientific article

Methamphetamine and cardiovascular pathology: a review of the evidence

scientific article published on 12 June 2007

Methamphetamine use and future risk for Parkinson's disease: Evidence and clinical implications.

scientific article published on 10 April 2018

Methamphetamine-related death is an under-addressed public health problem

scientific article published in December 2017

Methamphetamine-related fatalities in Australia: demographics, circumstances, toxicology and major organ pathology

scientific article published on August 2008

Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)-related fatalities in Australia: demographics, circumstances, toxicology and major organ pathology

scientific article published on 14 July 2009

Morbidity associated with non-fatal heroin overdose.

scientific article published in August 2002

Morphine concentrations in stomach contents of intravenous opioid overdose deaths

scientific article published on 6 August 2009

Mortality amongst Illicit Drug Users

Mortality amongst illicit drug users

Mortality and drug overdose

Mortality and suicide

Mortality and trauma

Non-fatal cocaine overdose among injecting and non-injecting cocaine users in Sydney, Australia

scientific article published in October 2004

Non-fatal heroin overdose, treatment exposure and client characteristics: findings from the Australian treatment outcome study (ATOS).

scientific article

Non-injecting routes of administration among entrants to three treatment modalities for heroin dependence

scientific article published in June 2004

Now is the time to take steps to allow peer access to naloxone for heroin overdose in Australia

scientific article published in November 2009

One year outcomes for heroin dependence: findings from the Australian Treatment Outcome Study (ATOS).

scientific article

Opioid overdose and the power of old myths: what we thought we knew, what we do know and why it matters

scientific article

Overdose Among Heroin Users: Evaluation of an Intervention in South Australia

journal article; published in Addiction Research & Theory in 2001

Oxycodone poisoning: not just the 'usual suspects'.

scientific article published in June 2011

Pathways to heroin dependence: time to re-appraise self-medication

scientific article published on 17 October 2012

Patterns and Correlates of Injecting Among Heroin Users

Patterns and Correlates of Sustained Heroin Abstinence: Findings From the 11-Year Follow-Up of the Australian Treatment Outcome Study

scientific article published in November 2015

Patterns and correlates of alcohol use amongst heroin users: 11-year follow-up of the Australian Treatment Outcome Study cohort

scientific article

Patterns and correlates of attempted suicide amongst heroin users: 11-year follow-up of the Australian treatment outcome study cohort

scientific article published on 11 April 2015

Patterns and correlates of attempted suicide by heroin users over a 3-year period: findings from the Australian treatment outcome study

scientific article published on 12 September 2006

Patterns and correlates of non-fatal heroin overdose at 11-year follow-up: findings from the Australian Treatment Outcome Study

scientific article published on 16 September 2014

Patterns of major depression and drug-related problems amongst heroin users across 36 months

scientific article published on 11 February 2009

Patterns of nonfatal heroin overdose over a 3-year period: findings from the Australian treatment outcome study

scientific article

Patterns of psychological distress related to regular methamphetamine and opioid use

journal article; published in Addiction Research & Theory in 2011

Policy forum

Polydrug use and overdose: overthrowing old myths

scientific article

Post-traumatic stress disorder among people with heroin dependence in the Australian treatment outcome study (ATOS): prevalence and correlates

scientific article

Prevalence and Correlates of Suicidal Thoughts and Suicide Attempts in People Prescribed Pharmaceutical Opioids for Chronic Pain

scientific article published on 20 August 2015

Prevalence and correlates of intravenous methadone syrup administration in Adelaide, Australia

scientific article

Prevalence and correlates of traumatic brain injury amongst heroin users

journal article; published in Addiction Research & Theory in 2012

Prevalence and nature of cardiovascular disease in methamphetamine-related death: A national study

scientific article published in August 2017

Rates, characteristics and circumstances of methamphetamine-related death in Australia: a national 7-year study

scientific article published on 11 June 2017

Reducing drug-related mortality

References

Regular cocaine use is associated with increased systolic blood pressure, aortic stiffness and left ventricular mass in young otherwise healthy individuals

scientific article

Reliability of self-reported trauma exposure among people with heroin dependence: a longitudinal investigation.

scientific article published in June 2007

Residential Rehabilitation for the Treatment of Heroin Dependence: Sustained Heroin Abstinence and Drug-Related Problems 2 Years After Treatment Entrance

Response to Ruan and colleagues concerning 'The toxicology of heroin-related death: estimating survival times'.

scientific article published on 15 September 2016

Response to commentaries on 'Which medications are suitable for agonist drug maintenance'.

scientific article published in May 2016

Self-harm and attempted suicide among therapeutic community admissions

scientific article

Short-term Outcomes for the Treatment of Heroin Dependence

article

Static and dynamic predictors of criminal involvement among people with heroin dependence: findings from a 3-year longitudinal study

scientific article published on 13 August 2013

Stroke and methamphetamine use in young adults: a review

scientific article

Substance use and violent death: a case for the 'too hard' basket?

scientific article published in July 2009

Sudden or unnatural deaths involving anabolic-androgenic steroids

scientific article published on 19 February 2014

Suicidal behaviour and associated risk factors among opioid-dependent individuals: a case-control study

scientific article

Suicide among heroin users: rates, risk factors and methods

scientific article

Suicide risk assessment practices: a national survey of generalist drug and alcohol residential rehabilitation services

scientific article

Summary and conclusions

Systemic disease among cases of fatal opioid toxicity

scientific article published in September 2006

The Development of an early Warning System to Detect Trends in Illicit Drug use in Australia: The Illicit Drug Reporting System

article

The Effect of a Change in Drug Markets on Drug-free Treatment Admissions, Retention and Program Completion, 2003 to 2008

scientific article published in September 2011

The ageing heroin user: career length, clinical profile and outcomes across 36 months

scientific article published on 14 January 2009

The association between cocaine use and short-term outcomes for the treatment of heroin dependence: findings from the Australian Treatment Outcome Study (ATOS).

scientific article published in March 2006

The association of childhood physical abuse with the onset and extent of drug use among regular injecting drug users

scientific article

The characteristics of heroin users entering treatment: findings from the Australian treatment outcome study (ATOS).

scientific article

The comparative toxicology and major organ pathology of fatal methadone and heroin toxicity cases

scientific article published on 31 August 2009

The costs and outcomes of treatment for opioid dependence associated with posttraumatic stress disorder

scientific article published in August 2005

The diversion and misuse of pharmaceutical stimulants: what do we know and why should we care?

scientific article published on March 2012

The effect of baseline cocaine use on treatment outcomes for heroin dependence over 24 months: findings from the Australian Treatment Outcome Study

scientific article published on 22 February 2007

The effect of persistence of cocaine use on 12-month outcomes for the treatment of heroin dependence

scientific article published on 9 September 2005

The emergence of potent forms of methamphetamine in Sydney, Australia: a case study of the IDRS as a strategic early warning system

scientific article published in December 2002

The global epidemiology of illicit drug use

The health consequences of injecting tablet preparations: foreign body pulmonary embolization and pulmonary hypertension among deceased injecting drug users

scientific article published on 7 May 2015

The impact of borderline personality disorder on 12-month outcomes for the treatment of heroin dependence.

scientific article published in August 2005

The impact of post-traumatic stress disorder on treatment outcomes for heroin dependence.

scientific article published in March 2007

The impact of treatment on 3 years' outcome for heroin dependence: findings from the Australian Treatment Outcome Study (ATOS).

scientific article published on 8 November 2007

The injection of methadone and benzodiazepines among Sydney injecting drug users 1996-2000: 5-year monitoring of trends from the Illicit Drug Reporting System

scientific article published in March 2002

The monitoring of drug trends in Australia ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 2003

The prevalence and correlates of chronic pain and suicidality in a nationally representative sample

scientific article published on 19 February 2015

The prevalence and correlates of gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) overdose among Australian users

scientific article published in February 2003

The ratio of non-fatal to fatal heroin overdose.

scientific article published in August 2003

The relationship of conduct disorder to attempted suicide and drug use history among methadone maintenance patients

scientific article published in March 2003

The toxicology of heroin-related death: estimating survival times.

scientific article published on 15 April 2016

The toxicology of homicide offenders and victims: A review

scientific article published on March 2010

Toxicology and characteristics of deaths involving zolpidem in New South Wales, Australia 2001-2010.

scientific article published on 23 March 2012

Toxicology and characteristics of fatal oxycodone toxicity cases in New South Wales, Australia 1999-2008.

scientific article published in March 2011

Toxicology and circumstances of completed suicide by means other than overdose

scientific article published on 6 February 2009

Toxicology and circumstances of death of homicide victims in New South Wales, Australia 1996-2005.

scientific article published in March 2008

Toxicology, circumstances and pathology of deaths from acute alcohol toxicity

scientific article

Trajectories of heroin use: 10-11-year findings from the Australian Treatment Outcome Study

scientific article published on 6 January 2017

Truth is not always found in the laboratory

scientific article

Twelve-month outcomes for heroin dependence treatments: does route of administration matter?

scientific article published in March 2005

Violent offending severity among injecting drug users: examining risk factors and issues around classification

scientific article published on 10 July 2014

Vote of thanks to Professor Tom Babor.

scientific article published in July 2015

Which medications are suitable for agonist drug maintenance?

scientific article

Why illicit drug-related deaths matter

Would legalizing illicit opioids reduce overdose fatalities? Implications from a natural experiment

scientific article published on 24 January 2014

Years of potential life lost amongst heroin users in the Australian Treatment Outcome Study cohort, 2001-2015.

scientific article

Yes, people can die from opiate withdrawal.

scientific article published on 11 August 2016

Young people with heroin dependence: findings from the Australian Treatment Outcome Study (ATOS).

scientific article published in July 2004

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