By Professor Lisa Maher

Journal articles

Fry C; Treloar C; Maher L, 2007, 'Applied communitarian ethics for harm reduction: Promoting a dialogue within the field.', Drug and Alcohol Review, 26, pp. 553 - 555, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09595230701499183

Salmon A; Thein H; Kimber J; Kaldor J; Maher L, 2007, 'Five years on: What are the community perceptions of drug-related public amenity following the establishment of the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre?', International Journal of Drug Policy, 18, pp. 46 - 53

Maher L; Li J; Jalaludin B; Chant K; Kaldor J, 2007, 'High hepatitis C incidence in new injecting drug users: a policy failure?', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 31, pp. 30 - 35

Mateu-Gelabert P; Treloar C; Calatayud V; Sandoval M; Zurian J; Maher L; Rhodes T; Friedman S, 2007, 'How can Hepatitis C be prevented in the long term?', International Journal of Drug Policy, 18, pp. 338 - 340

Maher L; Li J; Jalaludin B; Wand H; Jayasuriya R; Dixon D; Kaldor J, 2007, 'Impact of a reduction in heroin availability on patterns of drug use, risk behaviour and incidence of hepatitis C virus infection in injecting drug users in New South Wales, Australia', Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 89, pp. 244 - 250, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2007.01.001

Razali K; Thein H; Bell J; Cooper-Stanbury M; Dolan K; Dore G; George J; Kaldor J; Karvelas M; Li J; Maher L; McGregor S; Hellard M; Poeder F; Quaine J; Stewart K; Tyrrell H; Weltman M; Westcott O; Wodak A; Law M, 2007, 'Modelling the hepatitis C virus epidemic in Australia', Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 91, pp. 228 - 235, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2007.05.026

Maher L; Coupland H; Musson R, 2007, 'Scaling up HIV treatment, care and support for injecting drug users in Vietnam', International Journal of Drug Policy, 18, pp. 296 - 305

White B; Day C; Maher L, 2007, 'Self reported risk behaviour among injecting drug users: Self versus assisted questionnaire completion', AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio - Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV, 19, pp. 441 - 447, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540120701192837

Maher L; Salmon A, 2007, 'Supervised injecting facilities: how much evidence is enough?', Drug and Alcohol Review, 26, pp. 351 - 353, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09595230701373818

Maher L; Hudson S, 2007, 'Women in the Drug Economy: A Metasynthesis of the Qualitative Literature', Journal of Drug Issues, 37, pp. 805 - 826

Maher L; Jalaludin B; Chant K; Jayasuriya R; Sladden T; Kaldor J; Sargent P, 2006, 'Incidence and risk factors for hepatitis C seroconversion in injecting drug users in Australia', Addiction, 101, pp. 1499 - 1508, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.360-0443.2006.01.543.x

Maher L; Iversen J; Kaldor JM, 2006, 'Measuring effectiveness of needle and syringe exchange programs for prevention of HIV among injecting drug users: Response to Amundsen.', Addiction, 101, pp. 1834 - 1836, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2006.01666.x

Coomber R; Maher L, 2006, 'Street-level drug market activity in Sydney`s primary heroin markets: Organization, adulteration practices, pricing, marketing and violence', Journal of Drug Issues, 36, pp. 719 - 753

Maher L; Jalaludin B; Chant K; Kaldor J; Hagan H; Des Jarlais DC; Thiede H, 2005, 'Hepatitis C among intravenous drug users [6] (multiple letters)', Epidemiology, 16, pp. 423 - 424, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.ede.0000158787.37340.ec

Coupland H; Maher L; Le K; Pacheco V; Pham A; Carroll C; Cheguelman G; Freeman D; Robinson D; Smith K; Enriquez J, 2005, 'Clients or colleagues? Reflections on the process of participatory action research with young injecting drug users', International Journal of Drug Policy, 16, pp. 191 - 198

Fry C; Treloar C; Maher L, 2005, 'Ethical challenges and responses in harm reduction research: promoting applied communitarian ethics', Drug and Alcohol Review, 24, pp. 449 - 459, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09595230500263905

Maher L; Jalaludin B; Chant K; Kaldor J, 2005, 'Hepatitis C among Intravenous Drug Users', Epidemiology, 16, pp. 423 - 423

Dixon D; Maher L, 2005, 'Policing, crime and public health: lessons for Australia from the `New York miracle`', Criminology & Criminal Justice, 5, pp. 115 - 143

Thein H; Kimber J; Maher L; MacDonald M; Kaldor J, 2005, 'Public opinion towards supervised injecting centres and the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre', International Journal of Drug Policy, 16, pp. 275 - 280, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2005.03.003

Maher L, 2004, 'Drugs, public health and policing in Indigenous communities (editorial)', Drug and Alcohol Review, 23, pp. 249 - 251, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09595230412331293306

Maher L, 2004, 'Entwined epidemics: HIV and injecting drug use in Vietnam', International Journal of Drug Policy, 15, pp. 169 - 170, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VJX-4BVPXY7-1/2/549cb7efd5c3d0b444f7f931dad9e568

Maher L, 2004, 'Hooked on heroin: Drugs and drifters in a globalized world', Addiction, 99, pp. 929 - 930

Day C; Collins L; Degenhardt L; Thetford C; Maher L, 2004, 'Reliability of heroin users` reports of drug use behaviour using a 24 month timeline follow-back technique to assess the impact of the Australian heroin shortage', Addiction Research and Theory, 12, pp. 433 - 443, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16066350410001713231

Maher L; Chant K; Jalaludin B; Sargent P, 2004, 'Risk behaviors and antibody hepatitis B and C prevalence among injecting drug users in South-Western Sydney, Australia', Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 19, pp. 1114 - 1120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j1400-1746.2004.03438.x

Dixon D; Maher L, 2002, 'Anh Hai: Policing, culture and social exclusion in a street heroin market', Policing and Society, 12, pp. 93 - 110

Maher L, 2002, 'Don`t leave us this way: ethnography and injecting drug use in the age of AIDS', International Journal of Drug Policy, 13, pp. 311 - 325

Moore D; Maher L, 2002, 'Ethnography and multidisciplinary in the drug field.', International Journal of Drug Policy, 13, pp. 245 - 247

Maher L; Dixon D; Hall W; Lynskey M, 2002, 'Property crime and income generation by heroin users', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 35, pp. 187 - 202

Maher L; Sargent P, 2002, 'Risk behaviours and Hepatitis C infection among Indo-Chinese initiates to injecting drug use in Sydney, Australia', Addiction Research and Theory, 10, pp. 535 - 544

Dunlop A; Higgs P; Jordens J; Ritter A; Bammer G; Whelan G; Maher L; Higgs P, 2002, 'Vietnamese-Australian heroin users; Ambulatory withdrawal and 24-month follow-up', Addiction Biology, 7, pp. 335 - 335

Maher L; Higgs P; Jordens J; Dunlop A; Sargent P; Higgs P, 2001, 'Harm reduction and drug users of Vietnamese ethnicity', Drug and Alcohol Review, 20, pp. 239 - 245, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09595230120058500

HIGGS P; MAHER L; JORDENS J; DUNLOP A; SARGENT P, 2001, 'HARM REDUCTION DIGEST 13*. Harm reduction and drug users of Vietnamese ethnicity', Drug and Alcohol Review, 20, pp. 239 - 245, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09595230124201

Maher L; Swift W; Dawson M, 2001, 'Heroin purity and composition in Sydney,Australia', Drug and Alcohol Review, 20, pp. 439 - 448, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09595230120092698

Sargent P; Maher L; Higgs P; Crofts N; Higgs P, 2001, 'Initiation to injecting drug use among Indo-Chinese young people', Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 12, pp. 242 - 247

Maher L; Sargent P; Higgs P; Crofts N; Le T; Kelsall J; Higgs P, 2001, 'Risk behaviours of young Indo-chinese injecting drug users in Sydney and Melbourne', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 25, pp. 50 - 54

Maher L; Dixon D, 2001, 'The cost of crackdowns: Policing Cabramatta`s heroin market', Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 13, pp. 5 - 22

Johnson B; Maher L; Friedman S, 2001, 'What public policies affect heroin users?', Journal of Applied Sociology, 18, pp. 14 - 49

Maher L, 1999, 'Crime control and women: Feminist implications of criminal justice policy.', Contemporary Sociology, 28, pp. 105 - 106

Maher L, 1999, 'Heroin, HIV and harm in New York and Sydney', Medical Journal of Australia, 171, pp. 163 - 165

Dixon D; Maher L, 1999, 'Policing and public health :Law enforcement and harm minimization in a street level drug market', British Journal of Criminology, 39, pp. 488 - 512

Swift W; Maher L; Sunjic S, 1999, 'Transitions between routes of heroin administration: a study of Caucasian and Indochinese heroin users in south-western Sydney, Australia', Addiction, 94, pp. 71 - 82

Maher L, 1999, 'Women, drug use and HIV infection', Addiction, 94, pp. 1587 - 1588

Hando J; Darke S; O'Brien S; Maher L; Hall W, 1998, 'The development of an early warning system to detect trends in illicit drug use in Australia: The illicit drug reporting system', Addiction Research and Theory, 6, pp. 97 - 113, http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/16066359808993294

Johnson BD; Dunlap E; Maher L, 1998, 'Nurturing for careers in drug use and crime: Conduct norms for children and juveniles in crack-using households', Substance Use and Misuse, 33, pp. 1511 - 1546

Hando J; Darke S; O Brien S; Maher L; Hall W, 1998, 'The development of an early warning system to detect trends in illicit drug use in Australia: The Illicit Drug Reporting System', Addiction Research, pp. 97 - 113

Dunlap E; Johnson BD; Maher L, 1997, 'Female crack sellers in New York City: Who they are and what they do?', Women and Criminal Justice, 8, pp. 25 - 55

Maher L, 1996, 'Street addicts in the political economy - Waterston,A', DRUG AND ALCOHOL REVIEW, 15, pp. 317 - 320, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1996VK63700019&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Maher L; Dunlap E; Johnson BD; Hamid A, 1996, 'Gender, power and alternative living arrangements in the inner-city crack culture', Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 33, pp. 181 - 205

Maher L, 1996, 'Hidden in the light: Occupational norms among crack-using street-level sex workers', Journal of Drug Issues, 26, pp. 143 - 173

Dolan K; Rutter S; Wodak AD; Hall W; Maher L; Dixon D, 1996, 'Is syringe exchange feasible in a prison setting?', Medical Journal of Australia, 164, pp. 508

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