NHMRC Partnership Project Success: Shaping the Future of AOD Treatment: Meeting Unmet Demand with Brief Interventions

Alcohol and other drug (AOD) services in Australia currently meet less than half of the treatment demand. Even when individuals with AOD use problems access these services, the majority attend only one or two sessions.

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April 2019

Online now: New resources from Drug Trends

The Drug Trends team at NDARC has released a number of bulletins and presentations that are available online now.

April 2019

Download or get your free hard copies of NCETA’s opioid prescriber resource

NCETA’s Responding to Pharmaceutical Opioid-related Problems: A resource for prescribers, and the accompanying literature review are both available for download from NCETA’s website.

April 2019

International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) Annual Report 2018 released

The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) has released its Annual Report 2018 and again highlights low availability of opioid medications for pain relief in low income countries.

April 2019

Continuing to inform workplace AOD and safety policy and practice

Recognising the need to provide ongoing support to workplaces to assist them address AOD and safety related issues, NCETA regularly offers advice and consultancy to a range of businesses and organi

February 2019

Cracks in the Ice wants to hear from you!

Researchers are conducting a community-wide evaluation of the Cracks in the Ice Community Toolkit and want to hear from you!

February 2019

Plain language review of the harmful use of alcohol among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people now available

The peer-reviewed ‘Review of the harmful use of alcohol among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’ is now available in a plain language format.

February 2019

Alcohol screening and brief intervention project wins award for promotion of preventative health

A project to investigate the feasibility of delivering routine alcohol screening and brief intervention in a hospital emergency setting has won a WA Health Excellence Award.

February 2019

Early registrations now open for International MOOC focusing on older people & substance use

NCETA is partnering once again with Middlesex University (UK) and Matua Raki (NZ) to conduct the highly successful Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)

February 2019

New resource to assist prescribers respond to pharmaceutical opioids now available

NCETA’s latest resource, Responding to Pharmaceutical Opioid-related Problems: A resource for prescribers which was launched on Friday 8 February 2019, at Flinders University’s Victoria Sq

February 2019

Contributing to the Addiction Doctors Program

NCETA’s Professor Ann Roche was invited to present a webinar on workplace alcohol and other drug (AOD) related issues on 11 December 2018, to the Addiction Doctors Program.

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