Learning from 50 Years of Aboriginal Alcohol Programs

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvi

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2. Introduction

   • Peter d’Abbs, Nicole Hewlett

   Pages 2-16Open Access

3. Explaining Aboriginal Alcohol Use: Changing Perspectives, Hidden Assumptions

   • Peter d’Abbs, Nicole Hewlett

   Pages 17-54Open Access

4. Prevention and Early Intervention

   • Peter d’Abbs, Nicole Hewlett

   Pages 55-88Open Access

5. Treatment and Rehabilitation

   • Peter d’Abbs, Nicole Hewlett

   Pages 89-130Open Access

6. Community-Based Restrictions on Alcohol Availability

   • Peter d’Abbs, Nicole Hewlett

   Pages 131-174Open Access

7. Case Study of Community-Led Alcohol Restrictions: The Fitzroy Valley

   • Peter d’Abbs, Nicole Hewlett

   Pages 175-186Open Access

8. Community-Controlled Liquor Outlets and Permit Systems

   • Peter d’Abbs, Nicole Hewlett

   Pages 187-230Open Access

9. Meeting the Challenge of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)

   • Peter d’Abbs, Nicole Hewlett

   Pages 231-270Open Access

10. Alcohol and Community Policing

    • Peter d’Abbs, Nicole Hewlett

    Pages 271-304Open Access

11. Conclusion: Outcomes and Issues

    • Peter d’Abbs, Nicole Hewlett

    Pages 305-316Open Access

12. Correction to: Learning from 50 Years of Aboriginal Alcohol Programs

    • Peter d’Abbs, Nicole Hewlett

    Pages C1-C1Open Access

13. Back Matter

    Pages 317-326

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This open access book deals with community-based attempts on the part of Aboriginal communities and groups in Australia to address harms arising from alcohol misuse. Alcohol-related harms are viewed as both a product of colonisation and dispossession and a contributor to ongoing social, economic and health-related disadvantage, both in Australia and in other countries with colonised Indigenous populations, such as Canada, the US and New Zealand. This book contributes to an evidence-base by bringing together a selection of existing Australian documents considered by the editors to have continuing relevance to all those concerned with dealing with alcohol-related harms among Aboriginal peoples, These are contextualised in original chapters that recount key events, ideas, and programs.

The book is a practical resource for all people and groups concerned with addressing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander alcohol-related harms, both at the community level and at the level of policy-making and administration.

• Open Access
• Indigenous alcohol harm in Australia
• Aboriginal alcohol harm in Australia
• reducing Indigenous alcohol harm in Australia
• reducing Aboriginal alcohol harm in Australia
• reducing alcohol problems in Indigenous communities in Australia
• reducing alcohol problems in Aboriginal communities in Australia
• alcohol interventions in Aboriginal communities in Australia
• alcohol interventions in Indigenous communities in Australia
• alcohol treatment for Aboriginal drinkers in Australia
• treating alcohol problems among Aboriginal people in Australia
• treating alcohol problems among Indigenous people in Australia
• alcohol interventions and public health among Aboriginal people
• alcohol interventions and public health among Indigenous people
• restrictions on alcohol in Aboriginal communities in Australia
• restrictions on alcohol in Indigenous communities in Australia
• preventing alcohol problems in Aboriginal communities
• preventing alcohol problems in Indigenous communities
• managing alcohol in Aboriginal communities in Australia
• managing alcohol in Indigenous communities in Australia

• Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, and School of Public Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

  Peter d’Abbs

• School of Public Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

  Nicole Hewlett

Peter d’Abbs is a sociologist with an extensive research background in alcohol and other drug policy issues and program evaluation. He holds Honorary positions with the Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, and the School of Public Health, University of Queensland. From 2001 to 2010 he was a Director of the Alcohol Education & Rehabilitation Foundation (AERF—subsequently renamed Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education, or FARE), and in 2007 he was placed on the Honour Roll of the National Drug and Alcohol Awards for his research into substance misuse in remote and regional settings. Between 2016 and 2021 he was a committee member of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Alcohol Working Group appointed to update the NHMRC drinking guidelines.

 

Nicole Hewlett is a proud Palawa woman with demonstrated knowledge translation experience in a range of areas including palliative care, suicide prevention, Close the Gap policy, cancer prevention, diabetes management and maternal use of alcohol, tobacco and other substances. Nicole currently holds positions with Queensland University of Technology, University of Queensland, and is a board member and Treasurer of the National Organisation for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (NOFASD). At University of Queensland, Nicole is part of the First Nations Wellbeing team as well as the collaboration to revise the FASD assessment and diagnostic guidelines. From 2016 to 2021, Nicole was a committee member of the NHMRC Alcohol Working Group, appointed to update the NHMRC alcohol drinking guidelines.