By Dr Caitlin Elizabeth Hughes

Reports

Vuong T; Ritter A; Hughes C; Shanahan M; Barrett L, 2019, Mandatory alcohol and drug treatment: What is it and does it work?, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/5cc258e2a385c

Hughes C; Seaar K; Ritter A; Mazerolle L, 2019, Monograph No. 27: Criminal justice responses relating to personal use and possession of illicit drugs: The reach of Australian drug diversion programs and barriers and facilitators to expansion, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/5cca661ce09ce

Hughes C; Stevens A; Hulme S; Cassidy R, 2018, Review of approaches taken in Ireland and in other jurisdictions to simple possession drug offences, UNSW Australia and University of Kent, Sydney and Kent

Ritter A; Hughes C; Shanahan M, 2018, Bulletin No. 26: Models for the Decriminalisation of the Personal Use and Possession of Drugs, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/5beba8750ca19

Hughes CE; Ritter A, 2018, DPMP Bulletin No. 25: What does the research evidence tell us about what Australians think about the legal status of drugs? A 2018 update, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre and Social Policy Research Centre, Sydney, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/27091

Hughes C; Ritter A, 2018, Bulletin No. 25: What does the research evidence tell us about what Australians think about the legal status of drugs? A 2018 update, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/26799

Shanahan ; Hughes CE, 2018, Cannabis caution in NSW: A secondary analysis of the National Cannabis Survey data. A report for NSW Police, Drug Policy Modelling Program, NDARC, UNSW, Sydney

Shanahan MD; Hughes CE; McSweeney T, 2017, Australian police diversion for cannabis offences: Assessing program outcomes and cost-effectiveness, National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund, Canberra, Monograph Series No. 66, http://www.ndlerf.gov.au/publications/monographs/monograph-66

Shanahan M; Hughes C; McSweeney T, 2017, Police diversion for cannabis offences: Assessing outcomes and cost-effectiveness, Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra, Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice no. 532, http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/current%20series/tandi/521-540/tandi532.html

Hughes CE; Shanahan M; Sotade O, 2017, Briefing paper for the ACT Drug and Alcohol Court Focus Group, Sydney, Drug Policy Modelling Program, NDARC, UNSW

Hughes CE; Shanahan M; Sotade O; Ritter A, 2017, Towards a new ACT Drug and Alcohol Court: A program and systems perspective, Drug Policy Modelling Program, NDARC, UNSW, Sydney

Hughes C; Chalmers J; Bright D; McFadden M, 2016, Trafficking in multiple commodities: Exposing Australia's poly-drug and poly-crime networks, National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund, Canberra, Monograph No. 62, http://www.ndlerf.gov.au/publications/monographs/monograph-62

Hughes C; Ritter A; Chalmers J; Lancaster K; Barratt M; Moxham-Hall V, 2016, Decriminalisation of drug use and possession in Australia – A briefing note, Drug Policy Modelling Program, NDARC, UNSW Australia, Sydney, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/26040, https://dpmp.unsw.edu.au/resource/decriminalisation-drug-use-and-possession-australia-%E2%80%93-briefing-note

Hughes CE; Chalmers J; Bright D; McFadden M, 2016, Trafficking in multiple commodities: Exposing Australia's poly-drug and poly-crime networks, National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund, Canberra, Research Bulletin No. 4

Belackova V; Ritter A; Shanahan M; Chalmers J; Hughes C; Barratt MJ; Lancaster K, 2015, Medicinal cannabis in Australia – Framing the regulatory options

Hughes C; Ritter A; Cowdery N; Phillips B, 2014, Australian threshold quantities for 'drug trafficking': Are they placing drug users at risk of unjustified sanction, Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra, http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/current%20series/tandi/461-480/tandi467.html

Hughes CE, 2014, Drugs and the law: what you need to know, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW, Sydney

Hughes CE; Ritter A; Cowdery N; Phillips B, 2014, Evaluating Australian drug trafficking thresholds: Proportionate, equitable and just?, Criminology Research Advisory Council, Canberra, http://crg.aic.gov.au/reports/1314/35-1112-FinalReport.pdf

Hughes CE; Shanahan M; Ritter A; McDonald D; Gray-Weale F, 2014, Monograph No. 25: Evaluation of the ACT drug diversion programs, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, Sydney, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/26140, https://ndarc.med.unsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/ndarc/resources/DPMP%20MONO%2025.pdf

Hughes CE; Wodak AD, 2012, A background paper for an Australia21 Roundtable, Melbourne, Friday 6th July 2012 addressing the question: "What can Australia learn from different approaches to drugs in Europe including especially Portugal, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Sweden?”, Australia21, Weston, ACT, http://ndarc.med.unsw.edu.au/sites/ndarc.cms.med.unsw.edu.au/files/ndarc/resources/Australia21%20background%20paper%20July%202012.pdf

Hughes CE; Ritter A, 2011, Monograph No. 22: Legal thresholds for serious drug offences: Expert advice to the ACT on determining amounts for trafficable, commercial and large commercial drug offences, National Drug and Alcohol Reseach Centre, Sydney, https://dpmp.unsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/dpmp/resources/22%20Legal%20thresholds%20for%20serious%20drug%20offences.pdf

Hughes C; Lodge M; Ritter A; McDonald D, 2010, Monograph No. 18: The coordination of Australian illicit drug policy: A governance perspective, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, Sydney, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/26833

Hughes C; Ritter A, 2010, Diversion of drug offenders - Report for Queensland Health and Queesland Police, Drug Policy Modelling Program, Sydney

Hughes C; Lodge M; Ritter A, 2010, Monograph No. 18: The Coordination of Australian Illicit Drug Policy: A governance perspective, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/26961, https://ndarc.med.unsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/ndarc/resources/18%20The%20coordination%20of%20Australian%20illicit%20drug%20policy.pdf

Hughes C; Spicer B; Lancaster K; Matthew-simmons F; Dillon PG, 2010, Monograph No. 19: Media Reporting on Illicit Drugs in Australia:Trends and impacts on youth attitudes to illicit drug use, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Original, https://ndarc.med.unsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/ndarc/resources/19%20Media%20reporting%20on%20illicit%20drugs%20in%20Australia.pdf

Hughes C; Ritter A, 2008, Monograph No. 16: A summary of diversion programs for drug and drug related offenders in Australia, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, Sydney, https://dpmp.unsw.edu.au/resource/16-summary-diversion-programs-drug-and-drug-related-offenders-australia

Hughes C; Stevens A, 2007, The effects of decriminalization of drug use in Portugal, Beckley Foundation, United Kingdom, Beckley Foundation Briefing Papers, Briefing Paper 14, http://www.beckleyfoundation.org/pdf/BriefingPaper14.pdf

Preprints

Volpe I; Brien R; Grigg J; Tzanetis S; Crawford S; Lyons T; Lee N; McKinnon G; Hughes C; Eade A; Barratt M, 2022, “We don’t live in a harm reduction world, we live in a prohibition world”: tensions arising in the design of high-risk drug alerts, , http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1479599/v1

Brien R; Volpe I; Grigg J; Lyons T; Hughes C; McKinnon G; Tzanetis S; Crawford S; Eade A; Lee N; Barratt M, 2022, Co-Designing High-Risk Drug Alerts for Health and Community Service Practitioners, , http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1479577/v1

Other

Hughes C, 2019, The Australian (illicit) drug policy timeline - 1985 to 2018, Drug Policy Modelling Program, NDARC, UNSW Australia, Sydney,

Hughes CE, 2016, The Australian (illicit) drug policy timeline: 1985-2016, Drug Policy Modelling Program, NDARC, UNSW, Sydney, , https://ndarc.med.unsw.edu.au/resource/australian-illicit-drug-policy-timeline-1985-2015

Hughes CE, 2015, The Australian (illicit) drug policy timeline: 1985-2015, Drug Policy Modelling Program, NDARC, UNSW, Sydney, , https://ndarc.med.unsw.edu.au/resource/australian-illicit-drug-policy-timeline-1985-2014-national

Hughes CE, 2012, Australian (Illicit) Drug Policy Timeline 1985 - 2012, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, , http://ndarc.med.unsw.edu.au/resource/australian-illicit-drug-policy-timeline-1985-2012

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