June 2024

LSD and magic mushroom deaths in Australia are rare but significant

A study led by researchers at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) outlines the profiles and circumstances of 43 deaths related to LSD or psilocybin (commonly known as magic mushrooms) in Australia between 2000 and 2023.

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May 2022

Drug Trends Bulletin: Benzodiazepine use amongst a sample of people that inject illicit drugs in Canberra, ACT, prior to and during the COVID 19 pandemic

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

May 2022

Cutting back on alcohol, and does AA work?

“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

Deaths, hospitalisations data in NAIP 17

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.

February 2022

Association between nightlife goers’ likelihood of an alcohol use disorder and preferred bar’s closing time

Associations between longer-term alcohol-related conditions and licensed outlet trading hours are not well understood.

February 2022

Inequity in smoking cessation clinical trials testing pharmacotherapies: exclusion of smokers with mental health disorders

This review examines the practice of excluding smokers with MHDs and reasons for such exclusion in clinical trials evaluating pharmacotherapy treatments for smoking cessation.

February 2022

First Nations Australians’ self-determination in health and alcohol policy development

Recognition of the role of structural, cultural, political and social determinants of health is increasing.

February 2022

The experience of physiological and psychosocial alcohol-related harms across adolescence and its association with alcohol use disorder in early adulthood: A prospective cohort study

Different forms of alcohol-related harm (e.g., hangovers, fighting) may confer differential risk of clinically relevant alcohol problems.

February 2022

An evaluation of the evidence submitted to Australian alcohol advertising policy consultations

Industry self-regulation is the dominant approach to managing alcohol advertising in Australia and many other countries.

February 2022

The ethics of drug use research and ‘wild self-care’: a dialogue between a postgraduate student and their supervisor

This article outlines the experiences of a postgraduate student conducting research on drug use and ‘wild self-care’ in the format of a dialogue with their supervisor.

November 2021

New study reinforces the need for multidisciplinary care of chronic non-cancer pain to be better supported in Australia

The longitudinal cohort study, published in the journal Pain, investigated recent

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