Drug-related morbidity and mortality, injecting drug use, psychopathology, opioids, psychostimulants
Professor Shane Darke has worked in the field of illicit drug research at NDARC since 1988, and is a leading world expert on the morbidity and mortality associated with illicit drug use. He written many seminal works, particularly on opioid overdose, and has published widely in the area of illicit drug use, including work on opioid overdose, psychostimulant overdose, psychopathology, suicide, trauma, treatment outcome and toxicology. As of...view more
Professor Shane Darke has worked in the field of illicit drug research at NDARC since 1988, and is a leading world expert on the morbidity and mortality associated with illicit drug use. He written many seminal works, particularly on opioid overdose, and has published widely in the area of illicit drug use, including work on opioid overdose, psychostimulant overdose, psychopathology, suicide, trauma, treatment outcome and toxicology. As of April 2024 he had published 319 research articles, 6 books, 85 Monographs and 8 book chapters. His most recent books are The Clinician’s Guide to Illicit Drugs and Health (Silverback Publishing, 2019), and The Pocket Guide Drugs and Health (Silverback Publishing, 2021), and The Pocket Guide Drugs and Health Revised Edition (Silverback Publishing, 2024), comprehensive texts that examines the health effects of each of the major drugs. He is the Regional Editor of Addiction (the leading international journal in the field) for Australasia & Southeast Asia, and an Associate Editor of Drug & Alcohol Dependence, Drug & Alcohol Dependence Reports, and the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry.
ORCID: 0000-0001-8718-7055
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