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.

Read more
July 2014

Cannabis education videos now online

The National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre’s (NCPIC) inaugural webinar series is now available online.

July 2014

Meeting with Senator Nash

The Directors of NDARC, NCETA, and NDRI were invited to attend a meeting with Senator Fiona Nash, Assistant Minister for Health, and her chief advisor in Parliament House.

July 2014

Conference to showcase e-treatments for youth mental health & substance use

Interactive resources proven to prevent and treat co-occurring mental illness and substance use in young people will be showcased at a one day conference in Perth this August.

July 2014

Department of Health Presentation

The Directors of NCETA, NDRI, and NDARC are regularly invited to give presentations to Department of Health and other government department staff to provide an overview of current research, new findings and work in progress.

July 2014

Professor Steve Allsop inducted into inaugural honour roll for sector leaders

Professor Steve Allsop, Director of the National Drug Research Institute, was one of four individuals inducted into an inaugural honour roll recognising leadership, integrity, vision and commitment to the field of preventing and reducing alcohol and other drug problems in Western Australia, nationally and internationally.

July 2014

National Alcohol and other Drug Workforce Development Strategy

NCETA was commissioned by the Intergovernmental Committee on Drugs (IGCD) to develop a National Alcohol and other Drug Workforce Development Strategy. The Strategy involved a comprehensive literature review; development of a discussion paper; and an extensive national consultation process involving workshops in each jurisdiction, a call for written submissions and key informant interviews.

July 2014

Australian Indigenous Alcohol and Other Drugs Knowledge Centre

The Australian Indigenous Knowledge Centre is a new web resource dedicated to reducing harms from alcohol and other drug use in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

July 2014

NDRI book gives answers on addiction

NDRI academics Suzanne Fraser and David Moore, together with Helen Keane of the Australian National University, have published a new book, Habits: Remaking Addiction.

July 2014

Kate Dolan to join Richard Branson in discussion on policy reform

Professor Kate Dolan of the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) will share the stage with Richard Branson, UK entrepreneur, in a special session at the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne on 22 July.

July 2014

Exposure to childhood trauma increases risk of addiction & mental illness by four times: NDARC’s research grabs the media headlines in the US

National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) researcher Emma Barrett was selected by the College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD) for its inaugural media conference to promote its Annual Meeting held in Puerto Rico in June.

Pages