Many people working in the alcohol and other drug (AOD) field are aware that clients who present for treatment or assistance are often experiencing a range of other complex conditions. This resource was developed to strengthen AOD workers’ skills and understanding of gambling and help them respond appropriately to people who may also present with AOD problems.
Nicotine, cannabis and benzodiazepine have a potential for agonist maintenance treatment, according to an analysis conducted by NDARC Professors Shane Darke and Michael Farrell, published in the journal Addiction early online view in October.
Opioid-dependent patients are five times more likely to die in the first four weeks of treatment if they are prescribed methadone rather than buprenorphine, a new NDARC study has shown.
Steroid injecting can allow transmission of blood-borne viruses, but little is known about how steroid injecting takes place and how such transmission might occur.
This paper explores the complex and dynamic relationship between pleasure and harm as experienced by a group of young people during and after “party drug” use.
