How long have drug detection dogs been used, why were they introduced, and how common are they?
Drug detection dogs are a street-level policing strategy that has been used in Australia for over 25 years.
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“★★★★★ – it was a pleasure to see the NDARC PhD candidates and early career researchers do us proud” – Shane Darke, Professor
NDARC's Professor Shane Darke discusses the findings of a new study published in Addiction journal, which found that 610 people died from heroin overdose between 2020-22.
In October this year, NDARC awarded travel scholarships to early career researchers (ECRs) and higher degree research students (HDRs) in the alcohol and other drugs (AOD) sector. The scholarship recipients attended key events, including the 2023 NDARC Annual Research Symposium and the NDARC Early Career Networking Event. Nathan Harrison, a PhD candidate at Flinders University, and Cheneal Puljevic, an ARC DECRA Fellow at the Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame (University of Queensland), have shared their experiences. Here's what they had to say.
