June 2024

Participants wanted for NCCRED’s ground-breaking trial

NCCRED are looking for people over the age of 18 who use methamphetamine to be involved in our new methamphetamine clinical trial with St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney.

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November 2022

Top 2022 research honours for NDARC’s Scientia Professor Louisa Degenhardt

Scientia Professor Louisa Degenhardt, Acting Director of the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) at UNSW Sydney, has been named in the Research.com Best Female Scientists in the World 2022 Ranking and the Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers 2022. Professor Degenhardt is the only Australian to feature in the Research.com ranking of the top 100 female scientists in the world.

November 2022

New reports finds 171 drug-related hospitalisations per day in Australia in 2020-21

There were 62,486 drug-related hospitalisations (excluding alcohol and tobacco) among Australians in 2020-21, according to a new report released today by the Drug Trends program at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC), UNSW Sydney.

November 2022

NDRI Program Leader to advise on WA justice research

NDRI Aboriginal Research Program Leader Dr Jocelyn Jones has been appointed to the Western Australian Office of Crime Statistics and Research’s (WACSAR) Advisory Board.

November 2022

NDRI Professor to chair alcohol and other drugs advisory board

NDRI Professor Steve Allsop has been appointed Chair of the Western Australian Alcohol and Other Drugs Advisory Board (AODAB).

November 2022

NDRI HDR scholarship to examine impacts of criminal justice involvement

NDRI has a new HDR scholarship available to work with a team to investigate how arrest and imprisonment impacts the health and social outcomes of people who use drugs, including recidivism. Findings will help inform debates around drug decriminalisation.

November 2022

International funding for NDRI-led project improving health of incarcerated women

NDRI researchers have been awarded international funding with colleagues in the United States to conduct research examining ways to improve the health and wellbeing of women who are incarcerated.

November 2022

Prestigious AOD award for NDRI alcohol researcher

Internationally renowned NDRI researcher Michael Livingston has been recognised with the APSAD Mid-Career Award.

November 2022

Hot off the Press - Stress and Burnout: A Prevention Handbook for Alcohol and Other Drug Services, 2nd edition

NCETA is proud to release the 2nd edition of one of its most sought-after resources, ‘Stress and burnout: A Prevention Handbook for Alcohol and Other Drug Services’.

November 2022

Challenges with survey recruitment in the digital world - a recent and concerning experience

Offering incentives to potential respondents has long been a common way to encourage participation in research. However, this method of participant recruitment also presents unique challenges in the context of the ever-more-connected digital world.

September 2022

NCCRED symposium: Transforming healthcare responses to methamphetamine, emerging drugs

The 2022 NCCRED symposium will present new clinical research findings that have the potential to transform healthcare responses to methamphetamine and emerging drugs.

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