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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March 2017

South Australian Government Establishes Ice Task Force

Professor Ann Roche has been invited by the South Australian Government to assist the work of the newly established South Australian Ice Taskforce.

March 2017

Indigenous AOD Knowledge Centre Webinar – Supporting workers and organisations to address crystal methamphetamine issues

Professor Ann Roche and Allan Trifonoff, in conjunction with the Indigenous AOD Knowledge Centre conducted a free one hour webinar on Wednesday 8 March 2017.

March 2017

Centre for Research Excellence (CRE) to promote Safer Families: Tailoring early identification and novel interventions for intimate partner violence

Congratulations to Ms Jacqui Cameron from NCETA who has received a three-year Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship to undertake a PhD on Knowledge translation of research

March 2017

Medical Management in the New ‘ICE’ Age

Professor Ann Roche was a keynote speaker at a recent workshop conducted in Adelaide by Australian Medical Placements.

March 2017

NCETA’s online training for frontline workers updated – New Topic added

Almost 9,000 people have enrolled in NCETA’s free online Ice: Training for Frontline Workers since its launch in January 2016. The resource has been updated to include a new Topic in Module 5.

March 2017

UN calls for greater focus on women in drug policies and treatment

The Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) of the United Nations, has called on governments worldwide to implement gender sensitive drug programs and facilitate greater a

March 2017

Translating research into practice fellowships will focus on schools prevention and the tole of community pharmacists in treatment pharmaceutical opioid dependence

NDARC’s Lexine Stapinksi and Suzanne Nielsen have been awarded two year NHMRC Translating Research into Practice (TRIP) fellowships.

December 2016

NDRI success in NHMRC and ARC grants: Over $2.5m for new research

NDRI awarded new funding for research into methamphetamine treatment, naloxone uptake, and use of performance and image enhancing drugs

December 2016

Fourth Contemporary Drug Problems conference – call for abstracts

Abstract submissions are now being sought for the fourth biennial Contemporary Drug Problems conference in Helsinki, Finland from 23-25 August 2017.

December 2016

The more you drink, the greater your risk of prostate cancer

Researchers have found evidence that even low volume drinking can increase the risk of prostate cancer

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