By Associate Professor Kari Lancaster

Journal articles

Lancaster K; Rhodes T, 2020, 'Wastewater monitoring of SARS-CoV-2: lessons from illicit drug policy', The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 5, pp. 641 - 642, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2468-1253(20)30158-8

Rhodes T; Lancaster K; Lees S; Parker M, 2020, 'Modelling the pandemic: Attuning models to their contexts', BMJ Global Health, 5, pp. e002914, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-002914

Lancaster K; Rhodes T; Rance J, 2020, '“Towards eliminating viral hepatitis”: Examining the productive capacity and constitutive effects of global policy on hepatitis C elimination', International Journal of Drug Policy, 80, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2019.02.008

Houborg E; Bjerge B; Lancaster K; Berends L, 2020, 'Problematisations in drug use policy, practice and research', International Journal of Drug Policy, 80, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102779

Rhodes T; Lancaster K; Rosengarten M, 2020, 'A model society: maths, models and expertise in viral outbreaks', Critical Public Health, 30, pp. 253 - 256, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2020.1748310

Rhodes T; Lancaster K, 2020, 'Mathematical models as public troubles in COVID-19 infection control: following the numbers', Health Sociology Review, 29, pp. 177 - 194, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2020.1764376

van de Ven K; Ritter A; Berends L; Chalmers J; Lancaster K, 2020, 'Perceptions of purchasing and payment mechanisms in alcohol and other drug treatment services in Australia: A qualitative study involving alcohol and other drug service providers and purchasers of treatment', Drug and Alcohol Review, 39, pp. 189 - 197, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.13027

Lancaster K; Rhodes T; Rosengarten M, 2020, 'Making evidence and policy in public health emergencies: Lessons from COVID-19 for adaptive evidence-making and intervention', Evidence and Policy, 16, pp. 477 - 490, http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/174426420X15913559981103

Rhodes T; Lancaster K, 2019, 'Evidence-making hepatitis C cure: Towards a science that knows more carefully', International Journal of Drug Policy, 72, pp. 40 - 46, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2019.06.023

Rhodes T; Lancaster K, 2019, 'Evidence-making interventions in health: A conceptual framing', Social Science and Medicine, 238, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112488

Mellor R; Lancaster K; Ritter A, 2019, 'Systematic review of untreated remission from alcohol problems: Estimation lies in the eye of the beholder', Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 102, pp. 60 - 72, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsat.2019.04.004

Holt M; Newman CE; Lancaster K; Smith AK; Hughes S; Truong H-HM, 2019, 'HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and the ‘problems’ of reduced condom use and sexually transmitted infections in Australia: a critical analysis from an evidence-making intervention perspective', Sociology of Health & Illness, 41, pp. 1535 - 1548, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12967

Lancaster K; Rhodes T; valentine K; Ritter A, 2019, 'A ‘promising tool’? A critical review of the social and ethico-political effects of wastewater analysis in the context of illicit drug epidemiology and drug policy', Current Opinion in Environmental Science and Health, 9, pp. 85 - 90, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.coesh.2019.06.006

Rhodes T; Lancaster K; Harris M; Treloar C, 2019, 'Evidence-making controversies: the case of hepatitis C treatment and the promise of viral elimination', Critical Public Health, 29, pp. 260 - 273, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2018.1459475

Ritter A; Mellor R; Chalmers J; Sunderland M; Lancaster K, 2019, 'Key Considerations in Planning for Substance Use Treatment: Estimating Treatment Need and Demand', Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 2019, pp. 22 - 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.15288/jsads.2019.s18.22

Rhodes T; Azbel L; Lancaster K; Meyer J, 2019, 'The becoming-methadone-body: on the onto-politics of health intervention translations', Sociology of Health and Illness, 41, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12978

Fredrickson A; Gibson A; Lancaster K; Nathan S, 2019, '‘Devil’s lure took all I had’: Moral panic and the discursive construction of crystal methamphetamine in Australian news media', Contemporary Drug Problems, 46, pp. 105 - 121, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0091450918823340

Lancaster K; Ritter A; valentine K; Rhodes T, 2019, '"A more accurate understanding of drug use": A critical analysis of wastewater analysis technology for drug policy', International Journal of Drug Policy, 63, pp. 47 - 55, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2018.10.011

Cui J; Newman C; Lancaster K, 2019, 'Making the subject of mental health care: a cross-cultural comparison of mental health policy in Hong Kong, China and New South Wales, Australia', Sociology of Health and Illness, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12851

Cui J; Lancaster K; Newman CE, 2019, 'Making the subjects of mental health care: a cross‐cultural comparison of mental health policy in Hong Kong, China and New South Wales, Australia', Sociology of Health & Illness, 41, pp. 740 - 754, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12851

Lancaster K; Ritter A; Diprose R, 2018, 'Recasting Participation in Drug Policy', Contemporary Drug Problems, 45, pp. 351 - 365, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0091450918776024

Walker S; Lancaster K; Stoové M; Higgs P; Wilson M, 2018, '“I Lost Me Visits”: A Critical Examination of Prison Drug Policy and Its Effects on Connection to Family for Incarcerated Young Men With Histories of Injecting Drug Use', Contemporary Drug Problems, 45, pp. 303 - 328, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0091450918777280

Ritter A; Hughes CE; Lancaster K; Hoppe R, 2018, 'Using the Advocacy Coalition Framework and Multiple Streams policy theories to examine the role of evidence, research and other types of knowledge in drug policy', Addiction, 113, pp. 1539 - 1547, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/add.14197

Ritter A; Lancaster K; Diprose R, 2018, 'Improving drug policy: The potential of broader democratic participation', International Journal of Drug Policy, 55, pp. 1 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2018.01.016

Nielsen S; Lancaster K, 2018, 'Commentary on Chang et al. (2018): Assessing prescribing volume and patient risk—implementation considerations', Addiction, 113, pp. 687 - 688, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/add.14138

Seear K; Lancaster K; Ritter A, 2017, 'A new framework for evaluating the potential for drug law to produce stigma: Insights from an australian study', Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, 45, pp. 596 - 606, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1073110517750599

Lancaster K; Seear K; Ritter A, 2017, 'Making medicine; producing pleasure: A critical examination of medicinal cannabis policy and law in Victoria, Australia', International Journal of Drug Policy, 49, pp. 117 - 125, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2017.07.020

Lancaster KS, 2017, 'Fourth Contemporary Drug Problems Conference: ‘Making alcohol and other drug realities’', Contemporary Drug Problems, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0091450917739449

Lancaster K; Hughes C; Ritter A, 2017, '‘Drug dogs unleashed’: An historical and political account of drug detection dogs for street-level policing of illicit drugs in New South Wales, Australia', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 50, pp. 360 - 378, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0004865816642826

Lancaster K; Treloar C; Ritter A, 2017, '‘Naloxone works’: The politics of knowledge in ‘evidence-based’ drug policy', Health (United Kingdom), 21, pp. 278 - 294, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363459316688520

Lancaster K, 2017, 'Rethinking recovery', Addiction, 112, pp. 758 - 759, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/add.13552

Hughes CE; Ritter A; Lancaster K; Hoppe R, 2017, 'Understanding policy persistence – the case of police drug detection dog policy in NSW, Australia', International Journal of Drug Policy, 44, pp. 58 - 68, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2017.03.007

Lancaster K; Seear K; Treloar C; Ritter A, 2017, 'The productive techniques and constitutive effects of ‘evidence-based policy’ and ‘consumer participation’ discourses in health policy processes', Social Science and Medicine, 176, pp. 60 - 68, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.01.031

Barratt MJ; Seear K; Lancaster K, 2017, 'A critical examination of the definition of ‘psychoactive effect’ in Australian drug legislation', International Journal of Drug Policy, 40, pp. 16 - 25, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2016.10.002

Lancaster K, 2017, 'Confidentiality, anonymity and power relations in elite interviewing: conducting qualitative policy research in a politicised domain', International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 20, pp. 93 - 103, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2015.1123555

Lancaster K; Seear K; Treloar C, 2017, 'P32 Laws prohibiting peer distribution of injecting equipment in Australia', Journal of Virus Eradication, 3, pp. 23 - 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s2055-6640(20)30773-1

Chalmers J; Lancaster K; Hughes C, 2016, 'The stigmatisation of ‘ice’ and under-reporting of meth/amphetamine use in general population surveys: A case study from Australia', International Journal of Drug Policy, 36, pp. 15 - 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2016.06.001

Ritter A; Hull P; Berends L; Chalmers J; Lancaster K, 2016, 'A conceptual schema for government purchasing arrangements for Australian alcohol and other drug treatment', Addictive Behaviors, 60, pp. 228 - 234, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2016.04.017

Lancaster K, 2016, 'Performing the evidence-based drug policy paradigm', Contemporary Drug Problems, 43, pp. 142 - 153, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0091450916633306

Lancaster K; Ritter A, 2016, 'Erratum: Corrigendum to “Examining the construction and representation of drugs as a policy problem in Australia's National Drug Strategy documents 1985–2010” (International Journal of Drug Policy (2014) 25(1) (81–87) (S0955395913001175) (10.1016/j.drugpo.2013.07.002))', International Journal of Drug Policy, 31, pp. 205, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2016.02.017

Chalmers J; Ritter A; Berends L; Lancaster K, 2016, 'Following the money: Mapping the sources and funding flows of alcohol and other drug treatment in Australia', Drug and Alcohol Review, 35, pp. 255 - 262, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.12337

Lancaster K; Ritter A; Hughes C; Hoppe R, 2016, 'A critical examination of the introduction of drug detection dogs for policing of illicit drugs in New South Wales, Australia using Kingdon’s ‘multiple streams’ heuristic', Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/174426416X14683497019265

Lancaster K; Duke K; Ritter A, 2015, 'Producing the 'problem of drugs': A cross national-comparison of 'recovery' discourse in two Australian and British reports', International Journal of Drug Policy, 26, pp. 617 - 625, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2015.04.006

Lancaster K; Santana L; Madden A; Ritter A, 2015, 'Stigma and subjectivities: Examining the textured relationship between lived experience and opinions about drug policy among people who inject drugs', Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 22, pp. 224 - 231, http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/09687637.2014.970516

Lancaster K; Seear K; Treloar C, 2015, 'Laws prohibiting peer distribution of injecting equipment in Australia: A critical analysis of their effects', International Journal of Drug Policy, 26, pp. 1198 - 1206, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2015.05.014

Berends L; Chalmers J; Lancaster K, 2015, 'Trust, agency and control: Perspectives on methadone takeaway dosing in the context of the Victorian policy review', Drug and Alcohol Review, pp. n/a - n/a, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.12287

Davies L; Dunn M; Lancaster K, 2014, 'HOW DOES AUSTRALIAN PRINT MEDIA DEPICT ILLICIT AND PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING DRUG USE IN SPORT? AN ANALYSIS OF PRINT MEDIA REPORTING ON THE AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE AND THE NATIONAL RUGBY LEAGUE', DRUG AND ALCOHOL REVIEW, 33, pp. 65 - 66, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000344914800188&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Lancaster K; Sutherland R; Ritter A, 2014, 'Examining the opinions of people who use drugs towards drug policy in Australia', Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 21, pp. 93 - 101, http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/09687637.2013.838211

Lancaster K; Ritter A; Colebatch H, 2014, 'Problems, policy and politics: making sense of Australia's ‘ice epidemic’', Policy Studies, 35, pp. 147 - 171, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2013.875144

Lancaster K; Ritter A, 2014, 'Making change happen: A case study of the successful establishment of a peer-administered naloxone program in one Australian jurisdiction', International Journal of Drug Policy, 25, pp. 985 - 991, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2014.02.003

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