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The Drug Policy Modelling Project (DPMP)
Creating valuable
new drug policy insights
The DPMP is concerned with research and practice
in illicit drug policy.
The goal of DPMP is to create valuable new drug
policy insights, ideas and interventions that will allow Australia
to respond with alacrity and success to illicit drug use.
DPMP focuses on enabling a more comprehensive
approach to drug policy; exploring dynamic interactions between
law enforcement, prevention, treatment and harm reduction.
It also integrates research and policy practice, examines
national, state and local levels of policy making, is concerned
with all illicit drugs, and uses new methods and tools.
Over the next five years, DPMP will conduct
rigorous research that provides independent, balanced, non-partisan
policy analysis. The areas of work include:
1. developing the evidence-base for policy;
2. developing, implementing and evaluating dynamic policy-relevant
models of drug issues; and
3. studying policy-making processes in Australia.
There are four elements to DPMP:
1. Policy Research – undertaking quantitative
and qualitative policy analyses that accommodate the complexity
of multiple domains, levels, drugs and outcomes. This will
also involve studying the policy-making process. Projects
include:
i. Quantitative policy analysis of returns on investment across
policy domains
ii. Research into hybrid models that can explore complex dynamics
iii. Study of the uptake of research evidence into policy,
and the research-policy nexus
iv. Study of how drug policy has been and is made in Australia
2. Policy Practice – engaging with policy-makers and
providing them with policy analysis and solutions for the
problems currently facing them. Projects include:
i. Consultancy to governments on specific policy problems
ii. The application and evaluation of dynamic models to decision-making
processes (testing scenarios with policy makers)
iii. Evaluation of the utility and relevance of DPMP information
to policy-making processes
3. Interventions – conducting demonstration projects
of new policy options under experimental conditions. Projects
include:
i. Three demonstration projects of new law enforcement approaches
at the local, state and federal levels
ii. Working with treatment, prevention and harm reduction
researchers to add policy analyses to existing trials
4. Foundational Research – developing and maintaining
policy relevant data, systems and approaches. Projects include:
i. A record linkage study – longitudinal cohort of injectors
ii. Working with economic data, such as drug prices, government
spending, costs of interventions, cost savings and so on,
for use in policy analyses
iii. Updating estimates of the prevalence and trends in drug
use, harms and the effectiveness of interventions
For more information go the DPMP website
at www.dpmp.unsw.edu.au
DPMP Bulletins
DPMP Monographs
Contact
For more information about research and development services at Turning Point, contact us on 03 8413 8413.
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