Identifying opportunities for the prevention of harmful use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs among young Noongar (Aboriginal) people in the south-west of Western Australia

July 2014
Staff: 

Professor Dennis Gray, Associate Professor Ted Wilkes, Anna Stearne, Dr Julia Butt, Dr Mandy Wilson

Project description: 

This is a collaborative project between the Southern Aboriginal Corporation and the National Drug Research Institute. It utilises a community consultation process to study alcohol, tobacco and other drug use among Aboriginal adolescents in a town in south-west Western Australia. This study will identify risk and resilience factors and opportunities for intervention and enable an Aboriginal community controlled organisation to develop an evidence-based strategy to address the harmful effects of substance use at a local level. The study also has broad policy and practical implications and will provide a template for action more broadly to address what is a significant health problem in Indigenous Australia. This project is funded by the Australian National Preventative Health Agency.

For more about this project: Go to the NDRI website.