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Identify sensitive products - these may vary from place to place.
Contact your local alcohol and drug or youth agency.
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Develop set procedures for staff. The roles of floor staff,
security staff, till staff and management should be clear and rehearsed. Education
for staff can be provided by your local drug agency and normally takes around 30 minutes.
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Be thoughtful about the placement of sensitive products. Keep them
near to point of sale, display dummy containers, place them on high shelves, under the
counter or in locked cabinets.
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Use video monitoring and advertise this.
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Liaise with local youth and drug agencies as well as the police.
Ask for a rapid response from these agencies if required.
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Keep numbers of the above agencies close to the phone and/or enter in
speed dial.
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Place a sign which says something like:
"WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REFUSE THE SALE
OF CERTAIN SUBSTANCES TO MINORS" may also include:
...OR TO THOSE WE BELIEVE MAY USE THESE SUBSTANCES
IN A WAY OTHER THAN THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH THEY WERE INTENDED"
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Talk with other retailers about what they are doing.
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What if they won't
cooperate
There is no law in West Australia against selling solvents to people. (Check
your own state/country re legislation (eg United
Kingdom Law). However,
retailers should be encouraged, at first by way of offering support, to reduce the sale of
solvents to those at risk. If they do not cooperate, you might try one or more of
the following:
1. Ask the local police to discuss the issue with the retailer.
2. Develop a rapid police/youth service response through community
purchase of a mobile phone. Service only available cooperating retailers.
3. Provide a good news story to the media about those stores who have
been cooperating. Include the names of those stores who have chosen to continue to
supply solvents to those at risk.
4. Encourage local customers to see the manager and let him/her know
that they will not be shopping at their store until they introduce measures to reduce
availability of solvents.
Retailers Kit
A "Retailers Acting Against Solvent Use Resource Kit" has been developed in
Western Australia by the NE Metro Community Drug Service Team and the WA Police. The
kit contains information on solvents, strategies for retailers, signs and a certificate
for the store if they comply.
These are available by contacting your local Community Drug Service Team, Local Drug
Action Group or by calling the WA Drug Abuse Strategy Office (08) 9483 8244.
You can view elements of the kit in PDF format by looking at the end of the
WA
Solvent Abuse Solvents Campaign Page. The hard copy kit contains A3
size posters for display in stores.
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Related Web Sites
CANBAN
A UK website devoted to informing retailers about solvent abuse
Re-Solv
Solvent Information & Resources (UK)
Volatile
Substance Abuse (UK - Richard Ives)
Solvents
Education Campaign WA Drug Abuse Strategy Office
Select
Committee Report (1998) 12 pages on Inhalants (PDF 48 KB)
CEIDA:
Volatile Substances
ADF
Inhalants
Alcohol
& Other Drugs Council of Australia Inhalants Summary Paper &
Recommendations
Massachusetts
Inhalant Abuse Task Force (USA)
National
Inhalant Prevention Coalition Web Site [USA]
WA
School Statistics on Inhalants (WADASO - PDF)
WA
School Statistics on Inhalants - Graphs (DRUGnet - ASSAD Survey)
Retailer
Interventions (Health Promotion England)
Retailer
Interventions (DRUGnet)
NIDA
Research Reports: Inhalants (USA)
Click here
for the above report as a PDF document - (5 MB)
NIDA
Mind Over Matter for youth - Inhalants
NIDA
Infofax on Inhalants (USA)
Basic
facts about drugs - Inhalants DHS (Vic)
Parent Support
& Youth Drug Use
Working
With Parents of Drug Using Children (DRUGnet)
Working
with adolescents with drug problems (DRUGnet)
Drugs
& Teenagers: DHS (SA)
Young
People & Drug Use: ADH (Vic)
Agency & Drug
Management Support
WA
Drug Abuse Strategy Office
WA
Drug Agencies
Alcohol
& Other Drugs Program, WA Health Department
Centre
for Health Promotion Research
Next
Step Specialist Drug and Alcohol Services
Western
Australian Network of Alcohol and other Drug Agencies (WANADA)
National
Drug Research Institute (NDRI)
DrugNet
- Professional Drug Management
Petrol
Sniffing in Aboriginal Communities: a Review of Interventions
(PDF - 352 KB) from the
Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal and Tropical Health
Indigenous
Australian Alcohol and Other Drug Databases
Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Health Clearinghouse
Kimberley
Aboriginal Medical Services Council
Aboriginal
Drug and Alcohol Council (SA)
Aboriginal
Health Internet Sites
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