Series[UMA-SRE-20130019] AGE POLL REPRINT PUBLICATIONSAccession[2013.0008] Papers of Irving David SaulwickIdentifierUMA-ITE-2013001900037Scope and ContentSAUL01417 Photocopy of publication titled 'The Drug Users An Age Survey - Reprinted from The Age 1978-79'. Orginally printed by David Syme and Co. Limited and distributed by The Age newspaper.
The publication contains reprints of articles and statistical tables which were published in The Age as a result of a survey commissioned by the newspaper and conducted in 1978 by Irving Saulwick and Associates with the cooperation of Monash University Department of Social and Preventative Medicine, under the guidance of Professor LJ Opit. Survey questionnaires were distributed to a random sample of 5000 voters across Victoria, with a return rate of 34%. In addition, survey questionnaires were distributed to a representative sample of 3500 school leavers who had been enrolled at State, Catholic and independent secondary schools in Melbourne during 1977. The response rate for this sample is not indicated.
Contents listing printed on the first page of the publication is as follows: Introduction; How drugs affect you; The drug users; Drug polls; Alcohol and tobacco; Drug Polls; Portrait of a smoker, a drinker; Search for a missing link; One in four smokers at high risk; Addicts may show out early. End punishment for drugs: report; Parents fear for their children; Drug polls; What people think they do; Marijuana: non-users tolerant; Most believe it's addictive; Ease "pot" ban, say the young; Pot will be legal: expert; The pot people; A heroin habit; Trendy addicts face new perils; Portrait of a heroin addict, LSD user; Nightmare in a junkie recycling centre; My son, the addict; Death stalks subway four; Trips to hell on "angel dust"; It's war on heroin traffickers.
The reprints publication also notes The Age newspaper's support for the Odyssey House project, a drug treatment program developed in America and introduced to Australia in 1977. A feature article on Odyssey House appears on pages 25-27.Access StatusOpen for public accessRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2013.0019 Unit 0001
Saulwick, Irving D., The Drug Users (1978-1979), [UMA-ITE-2013001900037]. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 13/11/2025, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/327686
