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December 2025

Prescription opioid discontinuation and mortality due to suicide or unintentional overdose

There is limited evidence about associations between prescription opioid discontinuation and mortality
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December 2025

Individual-level harm reduction intervention coverage among people in Australia who inject drugs

Individual-level needle/syringe and OAT coverage among people who inject drugs in Australian capital cities is high relative to targets
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March 2025

A systematic review of adolescent alcohol-related harm trends in high-income countries with declines in adolescent consumption

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March 2025

Alcohol advertising in disguise: Exposure to zero-alcohol products prompts adolescents to think of alcohol – reaction time experimental study

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March 2025

Lisdexamfetamine in the treatment of methamphetamine dependence: A randomised, placebo-controlled trial

This study tested the efficacy and safety of a 12-week course of lisdexamfetamine in reducing methamphetamine use.
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March 2025

Trends in prescription opioid analgesic use in Australia from 2015 to 2022

This study describes eight-year population-level trends in Australia's prescribed opioid analgesic use.

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A joint publication of the collaborative network of alcohol and other drug research centres
NDARC

National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at UNSW

NCETA

National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction at Flinders University

NDRI

National Drug Research Institute at Curtin University

NCYSUR

National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research at University of Queensland

The national centres are supported by funding from the Australian Government under the Drug and Alcohol Program
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