@article{ref1,
title="The role of a rural sobering-up centre in managing alcohol-related harm to Aboriginal people in South Australia",
journal="Drug and alcohol review",
year="2006",
author="Brady, Maggie and Nicholls, Ruth and Henderson, Gary and Byrne, Jason",
volume="25",
number="3",
pages="201-206",
abstract="There is a paucity of literature on the topic of sobering-up centres (non-custodial safe overnight accommodation for the publicly intoxicated). This paper presents findings of a retrospective longitudinal case study of a sobering-up centre in regional South Australia over the ten years 1991 to 2000. There were 6,486 admissions during this period, 97.1% of which were of Aboriginal people. We collated and analysed primary data including demographic details of admissions and re-admissions, and qualitative and quantitative measures of intoxication. The findings from this case study, considered together with contextual understandings from a wider social study in this region by three of the authors, provide supporting evidence of the important role of sobering-up centres in averting the known harms of a custodial response to public drunkenness, as well as avoiding the potential harm of alcohol-related injury among vulnerable Aboriginal people.   <p></p>  <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0959-5236",
doi="10.1080/09595230600644657",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09595230600644657"
}