February 2020

Effectiveness of mutual aid at residential rehabilitation services

Background: Residential rehabilitation treatment (including both Therapeutic Communities (TC) and non-TC rehabs) is a key component of service delivery for people seeking treatment for substance use disorders in Australia and globally.

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October 2017

Third edition of the quick guide to drugs and alcohol

The Quick Guide to Drugs and Alcohol, 3rd edition has been published by the Drug Info service which is a partnership between the State Library of NSW and NSW Health.

October 2017

Online drug education more effective in female than male students

An online drug education game called Pure Rush developed by NDARC researchers increases girls’ knowledge about drugs but has proved less effective with male students.

October 2017

Playing hard: Young men’s experiences of drinking in inner Melbourne

This paper explores the meanings and understandings of alcohol consumption among male participants in an 18-month study of young adults living in inner-city Melbourne.

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.

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