June 2019

Enhancing Australia’s Clinical Research Capacity to Respond to Methamphetamine and Emerging Drugs: A Consultation Paper to support the Development of Workforce Development Strategy

NCETA was commissioned by the National Centre for Clinical Research on Emerging Drugs (NCCRED) to develop a Workforce Development (WFD) strategy.

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October 2017

Liquor licences issued to Australian schools

This research looked at the conditions under which Australian schools are required to apply for a liquor licence and the associated prevalence of liquor licences for these events where children were likely to be present.

August 2017

Wellbeing & alcohol & other drug use among construction industry apprentices

Following on from its innovative brief psychoskills program to reduce psychological distress and AOD-related harm among commercial cookery apprentices, NCETA applied the program to construction ind

August 2017

Frequency and severity of non-fatal opioid overdoses among clients attending the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre.

Pharmaceutical opioid overdose rates have increased in recent years.

August 2017

Trajectories of heroin use: 10-11-year findings from the Australian Treatment Outcome Study.

The authors followed up 428 of the original 615 participants of the Australian Treatment Outcome Study originally recruited as part of an NHMRC funded NDARC study in 2001 and 2002.

August 2017

Rates, characteristics and circumstances of methamphetamine-related death in Australia: A national 7 year study

The authors analysed 1649 cases of methamphetamine-related death retrieved from the National Coronial Information System (NCIS) and found that methamphetamine-related deaths in Australia doubled be

August 2017

Predicting abstinence from methamphetamine use after residential rehabilitation

Introduction and Aims. We previously found that residential rehabilitation increased continuous abstinence from methamphetamine use 1 year after treatment.

August 2017

Alcohol marketing and Facebook: An Indian and Australian perspective

Little work has been conducted to understand how alcohol marketers engage users with their brands’ Facebook pages in India and Australia.

June 2017

Police diversion for cannabis offences: Assessing outcomes and cost-effectiveness

Police diversion is one of Australia’s most utilised interventions for minor cannabis offenses.

June 2017

A nationwide study of the extent and factors associated with fentanyl use in Australia

The availability of controlled-released formulations of fentanyl and advanced delivery methods has seen substantial increases in the use of fentanyl worldwide since the 1990s.

June 2017

Assessing causality in drug policy analyses: how useful are the Bradford Hill criteria in analyzing take-home naloxone programs?

The Bradford Hill criteria for assessing causality are useful in assembling evidence, including within complex policy analyses.

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