August 2020

Drug checking (‘pill testing’) and behavioural responses among a sample of people who regularly use drugs in New South Wales

One-third of the sample who regularly used ecstasy had tested their illicit drugs in the last year.

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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.

May 2018

ED detection and management of alcohol withdrawal syndrome

In a regional ED in Australia, a screening and triage tool for AWS was introduced to routine ED assessment for a 13 week period.

May 2018

Changes for codeine

On 1 February 2018 codeine was rescheduled to a prescription-only medicine.

May 2018

Assessing the workforce development needs of the NT AOD workforce

The NT Primary Health Network (PHN), covering 1.34 million square miles, is one of the largest PHNs geographically but with one of the smallest populations in Australia.

May 2018

Child-parent agreement on alcohol-related parenting

This study examined alignment in parent and child reports of alcohol‐related parenting and whether misalignment related to the child ever having drunk alcohol.

May 2018

Narratives of young men with IDU histories leaving adult prison

This research focuses on an under-examined aspect of the post-release prison trajectory for a seldom-researched cohort.

March 2018

Methamphetamine users who identify as heterosexual double risk of sexual activity: more likely to have casual sex and multiple partners

Methamphetamine is now a global public health concern, being consumed by an estimated 14-53 million people world-wide in 2015.

March 2018

Workplace alcohol harm reduction

Evidence of the effectiveness of workplace alcohol harm reduction strategies is limited and inconclusive due to these interventions:

March 2018

Advancing alcohol research and treatment

Aims This narrative exploration of alcohol treatment research focuses on key contentions and advances in alcohol treatment during the critical 1970s and 1980s.

March 2018

Online purchasing of image and performance enhancing drugs

Online drug markets are expanding the boundaries of drug supply including the sale and purchase of image and performance enhancing drugs (IPEDs).

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