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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March 2018

NDRI Melbourne PhD Scholarship: Call for expressions of interest

NDRI Melbourne invites expressions of interest for a PhD scholarship in the area of performance and image-enhancing drug (PIED) use.

March 2018

Cracks in the Ice smartphone app provides more Australians with information about crystal methamphetamine (ice)

A smartphone app developed by researchers from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) at UNSW Sydney and National Drug Research Institute (NDRI) at Curtin University will allow more

March 2018

New Topic on working with families added to NCETA’s online training for frontline workers

More than 11,000 workers across Australia have registered for NCETA’s extremely popular free online Ice: Training for Frontline Workers.

March 2018

The Lancet Public Health: Parental provision of alcohol to teenagers does not reduce risks, compared to no supply

An NDARC study has found no evidence to support the practice of parents providing alcohol to their teenagers to protect them from alcohol-related risks during early adolescence.

March 2018

The Lancet Psychiatry: Tamper-resistant oxycodone tablets have no impact on overall opioid use or harm

Tamper-resistant tablets prove less attractive to people who inject drugs, but have little effect on population level issues linked to overprescribing, overuse, and harm of opioids.

March 2018

SANDAS / NCETA Codeine Forum – February 2018

In October, 2017, NCETA conducted a half-day workshop for key stakeholders including prescribers, pharmacists, researchers, frontline AOD workers and primary health care staff on the prevention and

March 2018

NDRI hosts US researchers for Beyond Violence training

NDRI recently hosted Beyond Violence facilitator training for around 50 attendees.

March 2018

Evaluation of AOD peak bodies’ capacity building activity

As part of its ongoing collaboration with the peak AOD bodies across Australia, NCETA has been invited by VAADA and WANADA on behalf of the Peaks Capacity Building Network to assist them to develop

March 2018

NCETA contributes to strategic policy debate and development

NCETA welcomed the opportunity to contribute to two recent policy debates / developments both nationally and in South Australia.

March 2018

New Flinders University College Structure – NCETA’s role

Since its inception, NCETA was always been located in the School of Medicine at Flinders University.

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