Advances in medicine mean that people are living longer. At the same time, however, the number of people aged 50 and over experiencing AOD problems is increasing rapidly.
The Quick Guide to Drugs and Alcohol, 3rd edition has been published by the Drug Info service which is a partnership between the State Library of NSW and NSW Health.
An online drug education game called Pure Rush developed by NDARC researchers increases girls’ knowledge about drugs but has proved less effective with male students.
This paper explores the meanings and understandings of alcohol consumption among male participants in an 18-month study of young adults living in inner-city Melbourne.
This research looked at the conditions under which Australian schools are required to apply for a liquor licence and the associated prevalence of liquor licences for these events where children were likely to be present.
Following on from its innovative brief psychoskills program to reduce psychological distress and AOD-related harm among commercial cookery apprentices, NCETA applied the program to construction ind
The authors followed up 428 of the original 615 participants of the Australian Treatment Outcome Study originally recruited as part of an NHMRC funded NDARC study in 2001 and 2002.
The authors analysed 1649 cases of methamphetamine-related death retrieved from the National Coronial Information System (NCIS) and found that methamphetamine-related deaths in Australia doubled be
Introduction and Aims. We previously found that residential rehabilitation increased continuous abstinence from methamphetamine use 1 year after treatment.