Post event resources: 2019 NDARC Annual Research Symposium
The 2019 NDARC Annual Research Symposium was held on Wednesday, 16 October 2019 at the John Niland Scientia Conference and Events Centre, UNSW Sydney.
A number of presentation videos and slides from the event are available below.
Plenary One: Family and Communities
Chair: Mr David Laffan, Assistant Secretary, Alcohol Tobacco & Other Drugs, Department of Health
00:01:30 – Keynote Address: Improving outcomes for children living in families with parental substance misuse: Practice and Policy imperatives (click here for presentation slides)
Professor Sharon Dawe
Clinical Psychologist, Griffith University
00:38:48 – Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS): not only neonatal and not only abstinence (click here for presentation slides)
Professor Ju-Lee Oei
Neonatologist, Epidemiologist, Paediatrician, Royal Hospital for Women, UNSW Sydney
Plenary One Poster Presentations
Chair: Dr Natasa Gisev, NDARC, UNSW Sydney
0:00:49 – Nicola Black (click here for presentation slides)
0:03:30 – Daisy Gibbs (click here for presentation slides)
0:05:56 – Alexandra Aiken (click here for presentation slides)
Plenary Two: Emerging Drugs and Associated Risks
Chair: Professor Nadine Ezard, Clinical Director, Alcohol and Drug Services, St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney and Director of NCCRED, UNSW Sydney
0:00:10 – Keynote Address: Bending the HIV epidemic by intervening with men who have sex with men who use amphetamine-type substances: targets for prevention and treatment. (click here for presentation slides)
Professor Frederick L. Altice, MD
Yale University
0:43:50 – Emerging trends in drug use, harms, and markets: Findings from Drug Trends 2019
Dr Amy Peacock (click here for presentation slides)
Research Fellow, NDARC, UNSW Sydney
1:09:28 – Towards a prompt response network for Australia: rapid health communication about events related to emerging drugs of concern (click here for presentation slides)
Dr Sandra Mitchell
Emerging Drugs Research Fellow, NCCRED, UNSW Sydney
Plenary Two Poster Presentations
Chair: Dr Natasa Gisev, NDARC, UNSW Sydney
0:00:26 – Janette Smith (click here for presentation slides)
0:03:10 – Toni Karlsson (click here for presentation slides)
0:05:28 – Julia Uporova (click here for presentation slides)
0:08:22 – Lucy Tran (click here for presentation slides)
0:10:51 – Wing See Yuen (click here for presentation slides)
0:13:06 – Catherine Foley (click here for presentation slides)
Breakout One: Drug Trends and Emerging Drugs of Concern
Chair: Dr Michelle Cretikos, NSW Ministry of Health
0:00:35 – Patterns and correlates of pregabalin use among a sample of people who inject drugs in Australia (click here for presentation slides)
Dr Rachel Sutherland
Research Fellow, NDARC, UNSW Sydney
0:12:28 – Illicit drug use in Australian prisons amongst people who regularly inject drugs (click here for presentation slides)
Ms Daisy Gibbs
Research Officer, NDARC, UNSW Sydney
0:25:32 – New directions in the treatment of methamphetamine use disorder (click here for presentation slides)
Professor Nadine Ezard
Clinical Director, Alcohol and Drug Services, St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney and Director of NCCRED, UNSW Sydney
0:40:00 – Recent trends in illicit drugs available on darknet marketplaces: Findings from the Drugs and New Technologies (DNeT) project (click here for presentation slides)
Mr Anant Mathur
Research Assistant, NDARC, UNSW Sydney
Breakout Two: Family, Communities and Vulnerable Populations
Chair: Ms Karen Price, Deputy CEO, ACON
0:01:05 – Alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug use among lesbian, bisexual and queer women in Sydney: Insights from the SWASH periodic survey (click here for presentation slides)
Dr Julie Mooney-Somers
Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney
0:30:00 – “It's hard for me to tell my story” - A qualitative study of male Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander drug and alcohol rehabilitation clients’ experiences with attending primary health care (click here for presentation slides)
Dr Sara Farnbach
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, NDARC, UNSW Sydney
0:41:42 – Transition of substance-induced psychosis to schizophrenia: a systematic review and meta-analysis (click here for presentation slides)
Dr Julia Lappin
Psychiatrist, St Vincent’s Hospital, UNSW Sydney
Dr Benjamin Murrie
Junior Medical Officer, NSW Health
0:56:46 – Sex, drugs and violence (click here for presentation slides)
Associate Professor Lucinda Burns
NDARC, UNSW Sydney
Breakout Three: Opioid Use and Related Harms
Chair: Ms Jude Byrne, National Coordinator AIVL HCV Peer Education and Treatment Program
0:00:44 – The impact of opioid agonist treatment upon multiple mortality outcomes in people who inject drugs: an examination of varied OAT characteristics in three varied settings (click here for presentation slides)
Professor Louisa Degenhardt
Deputy Director, NDARC, UNSW Sydney
0:17:00 – Extended-release (depot) buprenorphine injections for opioid dependence: Understanding potential clients’ perceptions prior to implementation in Australia (click here for presentation slides)
Professor Michael Farrell
Director, NDARC, UNSW Sydney
0:30:00 – Problematic opioid use in people prescribed opioids for chronic non-cancer pain over five years (click here for presentation slides)
Dr Gabrielle Campbell
Research Fellow, NDARC, UNSW Sydney
0:46:30 – Frequency of injecting among people who inject drugs: a systematic review and meta-analysis (click here for presentation slides)
Miss Samantha Colledge
Research Assistant, NDARC, UNSW Sydney
0:55:03 – Differences between urban and rural areas in changes in emergency department presentations associated with opioid agonist treatment (click here for presentation slides)
Dr Sarah Larney
Senior Research Fellow, NDARC, UNSW Sydney
Breakout Four: Alcohol and Tobacco
Chair: Professor Hayden McRobbie. NDARC, UNSW Sydney
0:00:18 – The overall effect of parental supply of alcohol across adolescence on alcohol-related harms in early adulthood (click here for presentation slides)
Mr Philip Clare
Biostatistician, NDARC, UNSW Sydney
0:12:51 – Community-based responses to alcohol harm: Do they work and where next? (click here for presentation slides)
Professor Anthony Shakeshaft
Deputy Director, NDARC, UNSW Sydney
Plenary Three: NDARC New Directions
Chair: Professor Michael Farrell, Director, NDARC, UNSW Sydney
0:00:45 – The future of vaping and e-cigarettes (click here for presentation slides)
Professor Hayden McRobbie
NDARC, UNSW Sydney
0:29:35 – Novel Interventions to Address Methamphetamine Use in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities (NIMAC): the development and evaluation of a web-based therapeutic tool (click here for presentation slides)
Associate Professor Rebecca McKetin
NDARC, UNSW Sydney
0:45:00 – Do Criminal Sanctions Deter ATS Users? (click here for presentation slides)
Professor Don Weatherburn
NDARC, UNSW Sydney
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Professor Frederick L. Altice
MD, Yale University
Dr. Altice is a Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University where he serves as the Director of Clinical and Community Research, the Community Health Care Van and the HIV in Prisons Program. As a clinician, he is board-certified in both Infectious Diseases and Addiction Medicine. As a researcher, his interests are focused on the interface between infectious diseases, including HIV, tuberculosis, and viral hepatitis, and substance use disorders. Specifically, he is interested in both prevention and treatment issues and has been at the forefront of both behavioral and biomedical intervention research activities. He is also interested in creation of novel prevention and treatment programs for the treatment of HIV, viral hepatitis, tuberculosis, and substance use disorders in vulnerable populations, including people who inject drugs, criminal justice populations, men who have sex with men and both female and transgender sex workers.
Dr. Altice has spent considerable time devoted to developing and studying integrated systems of care, including integrating medication-assisted therapies such as methadone, buprenorphine, and extended-release naltrexone into managing co-morbid conditions, including people living with or at risk for HIV, HCV, tuberculosis, and mental illness. In more recent years, given the many successful prevention and treatment interventions available, he has increasingly become involved in implementation science to find improved ways to disseminate research and evidence-based practices and ensure that they are implemented using best-practices. Dr. Altice is currently leading studies in Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Peru, and the United States.
Professor Sharon Dawe
Clinical Psychologist. Griffith University
Sharon Dawe is a Professor in Clinical Psychology at Griffith University, Australia and an Adjunct Professor at the Australian Centre for Child Protection, University South Australia and a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University, UK. She has been working as a researcher and clinician in the field of substance misuse and mental health for over 20 years at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London (UK), National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW and now Griffith University. She is the co-developer of the Parents Under Pressure (PuP) program working with high risk families engaged in the child protection system. PuP has been found to reduce child abuse potential with considerable cost savings across UK and Australian studies. Sharon is passionate about improving the outcomes for children living in adverse circumstances by supporting parents to manage difficult life situations.
Dr Gabrielle Carey
H.C. Coombs Creative Arts Fellow, Australian National University
Gabrielle Carey published her first co-written book, Puberty Blues, while still in her teens. She has since written biography, autobiography, memoir, essays and articles. Her book, Moving Among Strangers (UQP 2013), was the joint winner of the 2014 Prime Minister’s Award for Non-Fiction and short-listed for the 2015 National Biography Award.
Gabrielle holds a Master of Arts (English) from the Australian Catholic University and a Doctorate of Creative Arts (Writing) from Western Sydney University. For the past twenty years Gabrielle has taught writing at various universities including the University of Canberra, the University of Western Sydney and the University of Sydney. She is currently the H.C. Coombs Creative Arts Fellow at the Australian National University.
Dr Ju-Lee Oei
Neonatologist, Epidemiologist, Paediatrician, Royal Hospital for Women, UNSW Sydney
Ju Lee Oei is a Neonatologist at the Royal Hospital for Women, Conjoint Professor in Paediatrics at the University of New South Wales and Visiting Medical Officer in Addiction Medicine in the Murrumbidgee Local Health District.
Her areas of research interest are in neonatal resuscitation and perinatal drug use.
She is a member of the Substance Use in Pregnancy and Parenting Working Group, NSW Ministry of Health and has co-authored NSW and National guidelines for Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome. She is also chair of the Perinatal Substance Use Group of the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand
Dr Julie Mooney-Somers
Senior lecturer, Sydney Health Ethics, School of Public Health, University of Sydney
Dr Julie Mooney-Somers' research seeks to understand and address avoidable health differences that put socially disadvantaged people and communities at further disadvantage. Julie has a track record in sexual and reproductive health research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and young people; her substantive work is lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) health. Julie’s current research focuses on tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug use among LGBT people, and the provision of health services for these issues. For the last ten years she has run (with Dr Rachel Deacon) SWASH – the longest running periodic health survey of lesbian, bisexual and queer women in the world. Across her career Julie has worked in partnership with communities, often using participatory methods, to conduct and translate meaningful and relevant research. Since 2012, Julie has served as director of ACON, Australia’s largest LGBTQ health promotion organisation.
Associate Professor Rebecca McKetin
NDARC, UNSW Sydney
A/Prof McKetin (BSc(Psychol)Hons. PhD) leads a program of research into stimulant use epidemiology and interventions at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW. Her current research involves the online delivery of psychological help for people who use stimulants (www.breakingtheice.org), the trialling of new pharmacotherapy options for methamphetamine dependence (www.nicetrial.info; www.limastudy.info) and the development of novel responses to methamphetamine use in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities (http://nimac.org.au/). A/Prof McKetin established the first longitudinal treatment outcomes study for methamphetamine use internationally (the Methamphetamine Treatment Outcomes Study, MATES), a 3-year prospective cohort of 501 people dependent on methamphetamine, demonstrating the impact of community-based treatments for this drug. She has adapted in-direct prevalence estimation methods to estimate the number of dependent methamphetamine users in Australia and has been involved in the development of regional systems to monitor methamphetamine and other drugs in the Asia Pacific. Her work has been pivotal in quantifying the risk of psychosis, violence and other mental health outcomes related to the use of methamphetamine. A/Prof McKetin is a Senior Editor for Addiction, a consultant to the United Nations, and a member of the Australian Institute of Policy and Science.
Professor Hayden McRobbie
NDARC, UNSW Sydney
Professor Hayden McRobbie is a health behaviour change expert with a special interest in tobacco and obesity.
Hayden graduated with his degree in medicine and surgery from the University of Otago in 1996. After working in general medicine and surgery for three years he moved to the UK to take up a post in the Tobacco Dependence Research Unit (now the Health and Lifestyle Unit) at the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine. Whilst working in the unit he completed his PhD (Medical Psychology), which focussed on tobacco withdrawal symptomatology.
Hayden is an experienced researcher with skills in undertaking large randomised controlled trials, cohort studies and surveys. His main areas of research are in: (1) the treatment of tobacco dependence with a current focus on electronic cigarettes and digital strategies; and (2) behavioural interventions for weight management.
He is a Professor at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia, and a Consultant in Lifestyle Medicine at Lakes District Health Board, New Zealand. He is also Fellow of The Australasian Society for Lifestyle Medicine, and serves on the editorial boards of Addiction and Nicotine & Tobacco Research.
In the last decade Hayden has played a key role in Tobacco Control in New Zealand and over the past 3 years has acted as the Clinical Champion in Child Obesity for the New Zealand Ministry of Health.
Dr Don Weatherburn
NDARC, UNSW Sydney
Don Weatherburn is a Professor at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre and was formerly Director of the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research 1988. He was awarded a Public Service Medal in January 1998, an Alumni Award for Community Service by the University of Sydney in 2000 and made a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 2006. He has published three books and more than 200 peer-reviewed articles, reports, and book chapters on crime and criminal justice.
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