Wayne Hall

TL;DR: The rate of youth suicide in Australia has increased since 1964, particularly among males, and has been paralleled by an increased rate of Youth suicides internationally and by an increase in other psychosocial problems including psychiatric illness, criminal offending and substance use disorders.

TL;DR: This interview-based study reports on the views about news media engagement and strategies used by 36 peer-voted leading Australian public health researchers in 6 fields about how to best retain their credibility and influence while engaging with the news media.

TL;DR: These statements seem at odds with the similarities between the carcinogens and other toxic constituents in tobacco and cannabis smoke, the fact that cannabis smoke contains more of some carcinogens than tobacco smoke, and other evidence that chronic cannabis smoking has adverse respiratory effects.

TL;DR: In this article, a detailed analysis of patterns of income generation among 202 active heroin users in South West Sydney is presented, where the authors explore both sources of income and the relative contribution of different types of income generating activities, including drug sales and related activities, property crime, prostitution, legitimate income and avoided expenditures.

TL;DR: Children's exposure to indoor smoking in households that contain a smoker is declining in all socioeconomic groups but the social class differentials in such exposure remain; more needs to be done to reduce secondhand smoke exposure of children in socially disadvantaged households.