March 2024

A systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationship between youth drinking, self-posting of alcohol use and other social media engagement

NCYSUR PhD candidate Brandon Cheng led this attention-getting study published in Addiction.

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September 2021

Informing cannabis policy in Australia

NDRI’s research and expertise significantly informed the recent inquiry into cannabis policy in Victoria.

September 2021

Informing cannabis policy in Australia

NDRI’s research and expertise significantly informed the recent inquiry into cannabis policy in Victoria.

September 2021

More harms for people who both inject and smoke methamphetamine, new study shows

People who inject methamphetamine are also smoking the drug, which may be leading to more health risks, violence, and crime, new study finds.

September 2021

Alcohol and the risk of injury

Globally, more than 4 million people died from injury in 2019.

September 2021

Strengthened evidence for a low-cost natural quit smoking aid requiring wider global access

Results from the largest trial ever undertaken for cytisine on its effectiveness compared to the most effective frontline treatment, varenicline, could lead to wider cytisine access for people who smoke.

July 2021

Uptake, barriers and correlates of influenza vaccination among people who inject drugs in Australia

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July 2021

Hospitalisations

This bulletin reports on drug-related hospitalisations in Australia from 1999-00 to 2018-19, with a particular focus on opioid-, amphetamine and other stimulant-, cannabinoid-, and cocaine-related hospitalisations as per the aims of the Drug Trends program of work

July 2021

Alcohol and Men’s Health

Since its first edition, Men’s Health has established itself as an essential reference for practitioners across the spectrum of medicine.

May 2021

A person’s characteristics, their treatment, and the prescriber all influence retention for opioid agonist treatment (OAT)

A new report from researchers at The National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC), UNSW Sydney, has found that a person’s characteristics, their treatment, and the prescriber all have signific

May 2021

Exploring the Impact of Secondary Supply Laws on Adolescent Drinking Trends in Australia

This paper examined how declines in youth drinking fit into other youth behaviour.

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