May 2020

Legalizing Cannabis: Experiences, lessons and scenarios

This book brings evidence and expertise on cannabis law reform together with lessons learned from the regulation of alcohol, tobacco and other psychoactive substances.

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August 2018

Effects of medication-assisted treatment on mortality among opioids users.

Opioid use disorder (OUD) is associated with a high risk of premature death. Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) is the primary treatment for opioid dependence.

August 2018

Whole-of-community interventions to reduce population-level harms arising from alcohol and other drug use

Whole‐of‐community interventions aim to reduce alcohol and other drug (AOD) use and harms by mobilizing community leaders, organizations and policy‐makers to respond effectively to AOD use.

August 2018

Amphetamine use in the fourth decade of life: social profiles from a population-based Australian cohort

The study estimated the prevalence and frequency of amphetamine use in a cohort of Australians aged in their mid‐30s and compared this with National Drug Strategy Household survey (NDSHS) estimates

June 2018

The long-term impact of post traumatic stress disorder on recovery from heroin dependence

The high prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among people with heroin dependence and its impact on short term outcomes has been well established.

June 2018

A managed alcohol program in Sydney, Australia: Acceptability, cost-savings and non-beverage alcohol use

A managed alcohol program where long term homeless individuals with severe alcohol dependence are given small amounts of alcohol under supervision could save $1.25 million a year in hospital and crisis accommodation for a 15-person residential MAP in Sydney, say the authors from St Vincent’s Hospital and the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre.

June 2018

Methamphetamine use and future risk for Parkinson's disease: Evidence and clinical implications

Twenty years of research evidence in animals and humans have established a biological plausibility to an association between methamphetamine exposure and PD and parkinsonism.

June 2018

A co-produced cultural approach to workplace alcohol interventions: barriers and facilitators

Few studies have evaluated workplace alcohol and drug-related prevention strategies despite the enormous potential of workplaces as intervention sites to address AOD issues.

June 2018

Methamphetamine psychosis: insights from the past

To review early case reports and experimental inductions of amphetamine and methamphetamine psychosis, prior to the prohibition of these drugs, to gain a better understanding of the nature and aetiology of methamphetamine psychosis.

June 2018

Take-home naloxone in Australia and beyond

This editorial introduces a special section of Drug and Alcohol Review focusing on take-home naloxone.

May 2018

Completed suicide among methamphetamine users: A national study

In this study, all Australian cases of methamphetamine-related suicide (2009–2015) were retrieved from the National Coronial Information System and examined to determine crude mortality rates, characteristics and circumstances of death, and blood toxicology.

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