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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February 2015

Save the date for three national NDARC conferences

NDARC will be hosting three national conferences during 2015. Mark the dates in your diaries.

February 2015

Discussing drugs, policy and public health

Building knowledge in the alcohol and other drug (AOD) sector, and providing insights into how to improve the integration of research outcomes into policy, are key objectives of the Drugs, Policy and Public Health program being run in mid-2015.

 

February 2015

NCPIC publishes how to quit cannabis guide

NCPIC have released a new book that reviews science-based treatments for cannabis problems and provide practical tools for users who want to quit.

February 2015

Alcohol and Drug Use in Ageing Populations

The National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction (NCETA) has produced Grey Matters, a series of seven information sheets to assist specialist and generalist health and welfare workers to better prevent, assess and respond to the needs of older people experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, alcohol and other drug (AOD) related harm.

February 2015

Public Health Focus for World Health Organization Regional Forum

Professor Steve Allsop, Director of the National Drug Research Institute (NDRI), recently attended the first World Health Organization (WHO) collaborating centre regional forum for the Western Pacific, held in the Philippines.

February 2015

Schools drug prevention program wins Rotary award

Dr Lexine Stapinski has been recognised with Australian Rotary Health Knowledge Dissemination Award for her work developing universal school-based programs for adolescents.

February 2015

NDARC staff recognised with Fulbright Scholarship and NSW Cancer Institute Fellowship

NDARC’s Dr Emma Barrett a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Research Excellence in Mental Health and Substance Use (CREMS) has been awarded a prestigious Australian Fulbright Scholarship 2015.

February 2015

NCETA PhD Student Receives Accolades

Ms Creina Stockley, an NCETA PhD student, was advised in early December 2014 that she had been awarded her PhD without change.

February 2015

New National Peak Body Working Group

A new working group has been formed to prepare a proposal and recommendations for the development of a new national peak AOD body.

February 2015

Primary Care Project - Update

NCETA, NDARC and international colleagues continue to collaborate on a project aimed at enhancing General Practitioners' (GP) alcohol brief intervention responses.

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