March 2024

NDRI expands postgraduate student research

NDRI has expanded into new areas of research and strengthened its Justice Health program with new postgraduate scholars beginning their doctorate and masters studies in recent months.

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August 2018

New webinars featuring NDRI presenters available online

NDRI researchers have recently presented two free webinars that are now available online.

August 2018

Recruitment open for the N-ICE trial: Can NAC help people who are addicted to ‘ice’?

NDRI is leading a clinical trial to establish whether a new medication can help people reduce their ice use.

August 2018

Participants needed for survey assessing treatment preferences for chronic non-cancer pain

This study is part of the POINT (Pain and Opioids in Treatment) study being conducted by the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at UNSW Sydney.

August 2018

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students share positive stories to help develop drug and alcohol prevention program

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students from Western Sydney and Tasmania will have their stories included in a culturally inclusive school-based drug and alcohol prevention program.

August 2018

Cannabis for pain? It’s complicated

Results of a four-year study of over 1,500 Australians prescribed opioids for chronic non-cancer pain, suggest there is a need for caution in the use of medicinal cannabis for chronic pain.

August 2018

Registration now open for the 2018 NDARC Annual Research Symposium

Registration for the 2018 NDARC Annual Research Symposium is now open. This year’s theme is clinical, community and policy responses to emerging problems in drug and alcohol use.

August 2018

Regular teen drinking leads to adult alcohol problems

Adolescents who drink weekly before age 17 are two to three times more likely to binge drink, drink drive, and be dependent on alcohol in adulthood compared with peers who don’t drink.

June 2018

National competition for excellence in hepatitis C health promotion

NDRI is co-organiser of a competition to encourage innovation in the field of hepatitis C health promotion.

June 2018

International MOOC on substance use among older people returns in 2018

Following the enormous success in 2017 of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) Falling Down: Problematic Substance Use in Later Life, NCETA and its partners, Middlesex University (UK) and Matua Raki (NZ) are running the course again in 2018.

June 2018

Recording of Indigenous AOD Knowledge Centre webinar – Drug testing: issues and implications for Indigenous workers now available

On Wednesday 9 May 2018, NCETA’s A/Professor Ken Pidd presented a webinar on behalf of the Australian Indigenous AOD Knowledge Centre.

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