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Associate Professor Chris Wilkins is the leader of the drug research team at SHORE & Whariki Research Centre, College of Health, Massey University. Chris Wilkins has research expertise in drug trends, drug markets, public health, and drug policy. Over the past twenty years he has completed a range of studies of drug use in New Zealand with particular focus on methamphetamine, cannabis, legal highs, ecstasy and the non-medical use of pharmaceuticals. Chris Wilkins has published numerous journal articles on drug use, contributed to three books and regularly reviews manuscripts for Addiction, the International Journal of Drug Policy, Drug & Alcohol Review and Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Chris Wilkins has been an invited speaker at international meetings convened by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), and at the United States National Institute for Drug Abuse Community Epidemiology Working Group (CEWG). He regularly presents papers at the annual meetings of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy (ISSDP).
Associate Professor Chris Wilkins is the leader of the drug research team at SHORE & Whariki Research Centre, College of Health, Massey University. Chris Wilkins has research expertise in drug trends, drug markets, public health, and drug policy. Over the past twenty years he has completed a range of studies of drug use in New Zealand with particular focus on methamphetamine, cannabis, legal highs, ecstasy and the non-medical use of pharmaceuticals.
Drugs, illegal drugs, drug markets, cannabis, methamphetamine, legal highs, synthetic cannabinoids, organised crime, canabis law reform, drug policy
Health and Well-being
Field of research codes
Economic Theory (140100):
Economics (140000):
Epidemiology (111706):
Health and Community Services (111708):
Health Information Systems (incl. Surveillance) (111711):
Medical And Health Sciences (110000):
Mental Health (111714):
Public Health and Health Services (111700)
Drugs, illegal drugs, drug markets, cannabis, methamphetamine, legal highs, synthetic cannabinoids, organised crime, canabis law reform, drug policy
Position | Current | Completed |
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Project Leader | 1 | 18 |
Project Title: Dark Side of the Net: Exploring and modelling the impact of online illegal drug markets
Date Range: 2019 - 2022
Funding Body: Royal Society of New Zealand
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Project Title: The health and social impacts of 'legal highs' and other drug use on young people in Auckland
Date Range: 2013 - 2013
Funding Body: Massey University
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Main Supervisor | 2 | 1 |
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