It’s in the wastewater: Testing the success of Australia’s enforcement strategy on illicit drugs

25th July 2022Dr John Coyne, Australian Strategic Policy Institute

Australia’s National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program offers a unique insight into drug use across the country; Dr John Coyne, head of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s Northern Australia Strategic Policy Centre, believes results from the program in the wake of one of the country’s biggest enforcement operations highlight the difficulties of trying to measure the success of drug strategies in terms of seizures and arrests.