Politicians warned against criminalising petrol-sniffing

The Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health is warning politicians against allowing the petrol-sniffing debate to be bogged down in attempts to have it criminalised.

The Northern Territory CLP wants petrol sniffing criminalised so the legal system has greater power to impose conditions on sniffers.

The research centre's Pat Anderson says extensive research into petrol sniffing has already been carried out and should be the focus of the debate.

"It looks at a whole range of things, you know, different interventions as well as prevention," she said.

"All I'm suggesting is the various camps or points of view might like to inform themselves about this research and others that have been done."

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Pubdate: Tue, 06 Apr 2004
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