By Professor Alison Ritter

Journal articles

Ritter A; Stoove M, 2016, 'Alcohol and other drug treatment policy in australia', Medical Journal of Australia, 204, pp. 138 - 138.e1, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja15.01372

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

Ritter A; Schukla N; Shanahan M; Hoang P; Cao L; Perez P; Farrell M, 2016, 'Building a Microsimulation Model of Heroin Use Careers in Australia', The International Journal of Microsimulation, 9, pp. 140 - 176, http://dx.doi.org/10.34196/ijm.00146

Ritter A, 2016, 'Chasing the scream: The first and last days of the war on drugs Johann Hari London, United Kingdom: PB - Bloomsbury Circus, 2015 ISBN 978-1-4088-5784-7 389 pp. Paperback. Price: $29.99: Critique', Drug and Alcohol Review, 35, pp. 650 - 650, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.12429

Vuong T; Shanahan M; Nguyen N; Le G; Ali R; Pham K; Dinh T; Ritter A; Vuong T, 2016, 'Cost-effectiveness of center-based compulsory rehabilitation compared to community-based voluntary methadone maintenance treatment in Hai Phong City, Vietnam', Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 168, pp. 147 - 155, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2016.09.008

Ritter A, 2016, 'Impact of addictive substances and behaviours on individual and societal well-being', Drug and Alcohol Review, 35, pp. 118 - 119

Hoang PV; Shukla N; Cao VL; Shanahan M; Ritter A; Perez P, 2016, 'Individual-level simulation model for cost benefit analysis in healthcare', Proceedings 30th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, pp. 1 - 7, http://simulation.su/uploads/files/default/2016-shukla-vu-van-shanahan-ritter-perez.pdf

Ritter A, 2015, 'The privileged role of researchers in “evidence-based” policy: implications and engagement of other voices', Drugs and Alcohol Today, 15, pp. 181 - 191, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/dat-06-2015-0027

Scott N; Caulkins JP; Ritter A; Dietze P, 2015, 'Patterns of drug preference and use among people who inject drugs in Melbourne, Australia', Addiction Research and Theory, 23, pp. 459 - 468, http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/16066359.2015.1031118

Bright DA; Greenhill C; Reynolds M; Ritter A; Morselli C, 2015, 'The Use of Actor-Level Attributes and Centrality Measures to Identify Key Actors: A Case Study of an Australian Drug Trafficking Network', Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 31, pp. 262 - 278, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1043986214553378

Bright DA; Greenhill C; Ritter A; Morselli C, 2015, 'Networks within networks: using multiple link types to examine network structure and identify key actors in a drug trafficking operation', Global Crime, 16, pp. 219 - 237, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17440572.2015.1039164

Ritter A; Chalmers J; Berends L, 2015, 'Health expenditure on alcohol and other drug treatment in Australia (2012/2013)', Drug and Alcohol Review, 34, pp. 397 - 403, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.12248

Ritter A, 2015, 'New Australian lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender research-and the need for more', Drug and Alcohol Review, 34, pp. 347 - 348, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.12291

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

McSweeney T; Hughes CE; Ritter A, 2015, 'Tackling 'drug-related' crime: Are there merits in diverting drug-misusing defendants to treatment? Findings from an Australian case study', Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0004865814555773

Scott N; Caulkins JP; Ritter A; Quinn C; Dietze P, 2015, 'High-frequency drug purity and price series as tools for explaining drug trends and harms in Victoria, Australia', Addiction, 110, pp. 120 - 128, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/add.12740

Hughes CE; Cowdery N; Ritter A, 2015, 'Deemed Supply in Australian Drug Trafficking Laws: A Justifiable Legal Provision?', Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 27, pp. 1 - 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2015.12036028

Ritter A; Scott N; Caulkins JP; Dietze P, 2015, 'How patterns of injecting drug use evolve in a cohort of people who inject drugs', Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice, 502, pp. 1 - 7, http://aic.gov.au/media_library/publications/tandi_pdf/tandi502.pdf

Hughes CE; Ritter A; Cowdery N; Sindicich N, 2014, ''Trafficking' or 'personal use': Do people who regularly inject drugs understand Australian drug trafficking laws?', Drug and Alcohol Review, 33, pp. 658 - 666, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.12167

Ritter A; Stenius K, 2014, 'Celebrating Robin Room', Drug and Alcohol Review, 33, pp. 575 - 576, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.12220

Shanahan M; Ritter A, 2014, 'Cost benefit analysis of two policy options for cannabis: Status quo and legalisation', PLoS ONE, 9, pp. e95569, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0095569

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

Matthew-Simmons F; Ritter A, 2014, ''Miracle cure' or 'liquid handcuffs': Reporting on naltrexone and methadone in the Australian print media', Drug and Alcohol Review, 33, pp. 506 - 514, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.12134

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?', Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, pp. 1 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.52922/ti193214

Hughes CE; Ritter A; Cowdery N, 2014, 'Legislating thresholds for drug trafficking: A policy development case study from New South Wales, Australia', International Journal of Drug Policy, 25, pp. 992 - 1000, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2014.03.002

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

Shanahan M; Gerard K; Ritter A, 2014, 'Preferences for policy options for cannabis in an Australian general population: A discrete choice experiment', International Journal of Drug Policy, 25, pp. 682 - 690, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2014.03.005

Ritter A, 2014, 'Where is the pleasure?', Addiction, 109, pp. 1587 - 1588, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/add.12545

Ritter A, 2013, 'The Drug Problem in the Americas Organization of American States', DRUG AND ALCOHOL REVIEW, 32, pp. 636 - 637, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.12064

Vuong T; Ritter A, 2013, 'Not to lose sight of the bigger picture: the case of therapeutic communities (TC) research in closed settings in Thailand.', Substance use & misuse, 48, pp. 793 - 794

Shanahan MD; Ritter A, 2013, 'Confronting the challenges of conducting a CBA of cannabis policies', Drugs - Education Prevention and Policy, 20, pp. 175 - 183, http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/09687637.2013.763906

Hughes CE; Ritter A; Mabbitt N, 2013, 'Drug policy coordination: Identifying and assessing dimensions of coordination', International Journal of Drug Policy, 24, pp. 244 - 250, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2012.08.004

Lancaster K; Ritter A, 2013, '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, 25, pp. 81 - 87, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2013.07.002

Matthew-Simmons F; Sunderland M; Ritter A, 2013, 'Exploring the existence of drug policy ‘ideologies’ in Australia', Drugs - Education Prevention and Policy, 20, pp. 258 - 267, http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/09687637.2012.755494

Stevens A; Ritter A, 2013, 'How can and do empirical studies influence drug policies? Narratives and complexity in the use of evidence in policy making', Drugs - Education Prevention and Policy, 20, pp. 169 - 174, http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/09687637.2013.793892

Ritter A; Lancaster K, 2013, 'Illicit drugs, policing and the evidence-based policy paradigm', Evidence and Policy A Journal of Research Debate and Practice, 9, pp. 457 - 472, http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/174426413X662662

Shanahan MD; Ritter A, 2013, 'Intangible outcomes from a policy change: using contingent valuation to quantify potential stigma from a cannabis offence', Journal of Experimental Criminology, Advance online publication, pp. 1 - 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11292-013-9176-1/fulltext.html

Ritter A; Lancaster K, 2013, 'Measuring research influence on drug policy: A case example of two epidemiological monitoring systems', International Journal of Drug Policy, 24, pp. 30 - 37, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2012.02.005

Vuong T; Ritter A; Vuong T, 2013, 'Not to Lose Sight of the Bigger Picture: The Case of Therapeutic Communities (TC) Research in Closed Settings in Thailand', Substance Use and Misuse, 48, pp. 793 - 794, http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/10826084.2013.791320

Lancaster K; Ritter A; Stafford J, 2013, 'Public opinion and drug policy in Australia: Engaging the ‘affected community’', Drug and Alcohol Review, 32, pp. 60 - 66, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1465-3362.2012.00497.x

Hughes C; Phillips B; Ritter A; Cowdery N, 2012, ''TRAFFICKING' OR 'PERSONAL USE': DO REGULAR DRUG USERS UNDERSTAND AUSTRALIAN DRUG TRAFFICKING LAWS?', DRUG AND ALCOHOL REVIEW, 31, pp. 53 - 53, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000311236700163&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Lancaster K; Ritter A, 2012, 'A CONSERVATIVE SHIFT IN DRUG POLICY (?): EVIDENCE AND IMPLICATIONS', DRUG AND ALCOHOL REVIEW, 31, pp. 19 - 19, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000311236700061&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Lancaster K; Hughes CE; Chalmers J; Ritter A, 2012, 'More than problem-solving: Critical reflections on the 'problematisation' of alcohol-related violence in Kings Cross', Drug and Alcohol Review, 31, pp. 925 - 927, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1465-3362.2012.00516.x

Ritter A, 2012, 'UNRAVELLING DRUG POLICY: MANY THREADS', DRUG AND ALCOHOL REVIEW, 31, pp. 73 - 73, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000311236700225&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Ritter A; Matthew-Simmons F; Carragher N, 2012, 'Why the alcohol and other drug community should support gay marriage', Drug and Alcohol Review, 31, pp. 1 - 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1465-3362.2011.00410.x

Frewen A; Molan J; Ritter A; Bell J, 2012, 'A new approach to developing clinically-based guidelines: the experience of developing guidelines for management of drug dependent women and neonates and for cannabis dependence', International Journal of Person-Centered Medicine, 2, pp. 870 - 877, http://www.ijpcm.org/index.php/IJPCM/article/view/300

Ritter A, 2012, 'Alison Ritter on Friedman et al.'s "Has United States drug policy failed? And how could we know?"Policy as structured interaction, engaging multiple voices', Substance Use and Misuse, 47, pp. 1406 - 1407, http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/10826084.2012.723555

Gong W; Ritter A; Bright DA; Doran CM, 2012, 'How profitable is methamphetamine dealing in Australia?', Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 122, pp. 208 - 212, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0376871611004339

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