September 2022

Cessation of methamphetamine use may result in a characteristic withdrawal syndrome, no medication has been approved for this indication. This systematic review aims to assess the efficacy of pharmacotherapy for methamphetamine withdrawal, the first comprehensive meta-analysis since 2008.

September 2022

Comprehensive administrative records on crime from Australia are used to study the effect of a monetary penalty issued for sing or possessing a prohibited drug on future crime and drug use.

July 2022

Opioid use disorder (OUD) and mental disorders are major public health issues and comorbidity is common. Among people with OUD, comorbid mental disorders are associated with poorer health outcomes. To our knowledge, this is the first systematic review and meta-analysis to estimate prevalence of specific mental disorders among people with OUD.

July 2022

Supply of alcohol to adolescents is associated with increased alcohol consumption and harms including alcohol use disorder (AUD). We aimed to identify: (1) trajectories of alcohol supply to adolescents; (2) sociodemographic characteristics associated with supply trajectory; (3) patterns of alcohol consumption by supply trajectory; and (4) supply trajectory associations with adverse alcohol outcomes.

July 2022

This study examined the extent to which industry and non-industry actors drew from the same (vs. different) bodies of peer-reviewed evidence in 71 submissions to alcohol advertising policy consultations.

May 2022

This paper reviews all fatal poisonings related to novel synthentic opiods (NSOs) in Australia 2000–2021 identified in the National Coronial Information System.

May 2022

The latest Drug Trends Bulletin looked at trends in the prescribed and non-prescribed benzodiazepine use.

May 2022

“There are so many options for cutting back or quitting alcohol it’s hard to know what will be most effective,” NDRI Adjunct Professor Nicole Lee wrote in The Conversation recently.

May 2022

The latest National Alcohol Indicators Bulletin, Estimated alcohol-attributable deaths and hospitalisations in Australia, 2010 to 2017, shows that in 2017 an estimated 4,276 Australian adults died.

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