TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - The role of a rural sobering-up centre in managing alcohol-related harm to Aboriginal people in South Australia
JO  - Drug and alcohol review
A1  - Brady, Maggie
A1  - Nicholls, Ruth
A1  - Henderson, Gary
A1  - Byrne, Jason
SP  - 201
EP  - 206
VL  - 25
IS  - 3
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0959-5236
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09595230600644657
ID  - ref1
ER  -