Penington Report 2023
Australia’s Annual Overdose Report Penington Institute publishes Australia’s Annual Overdose Report, the most comprehensive and ambitious study of overdose in Australia. The report draws on...
Category: Resources
Current trends in overdose and other drug-induced deaths in Australia: Release of the 2023 report
https://ndarc.med.unsw.edu.au/resource/current-trends-overdose-and-other-drug-induced-deaths-australia-release-2023-report The National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) has reported on overdose deaths in Australia via an annual national report for over two decades...
DOING MORE HARM THAN GOOD
The need for a health-focused legal response to drug useReport by the Australian Lawyers Alliance released this month.President of FFDLR recommends this report and it can...
Drug Stigma Research Workshop
The Australian Drug Foundation in conjunction with Uniting’s Fair Treatment campaign and the New Zealand Drug Foundation commissioned Common Cause to identify messaging that is...
Dispension’s biometric opioid vending machines ready for Canada-wide roll out
Dispensions biometric opioid vending machines ready for Canada-wide-roll-out The device was used in the MySafe project pilot, the first to involve Opioid Dispensing Kiosks and...
Australia’s Annual Overdose Report 2020
Australia’s Annual Overdose Report 2020 reveals that for the fifth year running, more than 2,000 Australians lost their lives to overdose in a single calendar year.
National Drug Strategy Household Survey 2019: detailed findings
Australian Institute of Health and WelfareT national-drug-strategy-household-survey-2019 The 2019 National Drug Strategy Household Survey report showed that: fewer Australians are smoking tobacco daily, while the...
Understanding the impact of opioid agonist treatment in reducing crime
http://connections.edu.au/opinion/understanding-impact-opioid-agonist-treatment-reducing-crime By Dr Natasa Gisev, Scientia Fellow, National Drug and Alcohol Research CentreIn a recently published study, we examined the link between opioid agonist treatment...
CLASSIFICATION OF PSYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCES: WHEN SCIENCE WAS LEFT BEHIND
The Global Commission on Drug Policy The purpose of The Global Commission on Drug Policy is to bring to the international level an informed, science-based...