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Image - Dr Lexine Stapinski wins TheMHS Early Career Research Award
Congratulations to Dr Lexine Stapinski from the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Mental Health and Substance Use (CREMS) at NDARC, whose pioneering work in the prevention and treatment of... Read more
Image - Global life expectancy has risen by more than 6 years shows Lancet study
Global life expectancy has risen by more than six years since 1990 according to a new analysis of all major diseases and injuries in 188 countries co-authored by NDARC’s Professor Louisa Degenhardt,... Read more
Image - AOD treatment spending in Australia
Alcohol and other drug treatment spending in Australia amounted to $1.2 billion in 2012/2013. While this seems a lot of money, it is just under one per cent of health care spending in Australia.... Read more
Midnight basketball to tackle drug and alcohol problems in rural Indigenous communities
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre PhD student Mieke Snijder recently gave an interview to ABC Riverina about a new project aimed to help decrease alcohol related injury and violence in... Read more
Image - Australians are overestimating meth use
Category: National Drug
Australians are completely in the dark when it comes to the scale of ice use in the country, according to a recent survey by the National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre (NCPIC), based at... Read more
Image - Managing drug users’ high suicide risk: new NDARC resource assists co-ordinated approach
• almost half of long-term heroin users have previously attempted suicide, compared with 3% of the general population • one in 10 considers suicide • one in 20 has a suicide plan A new tool to... Read more
Image - Webinar: Co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders: how do they affect young people?
July 30, 2015: 2PM AEST with Dr Cath Chapman Did you know that...? ~ Co-occurring anxiety, depression and substance use disorders are among the leading causes of burden in people ages 15-24 ~... Read more
AOD workers face risk of stress and trauma
Workers in alcohol and other drug (AOD) services do not receive adequate trauma training despite high mental health risks involved with dealing with traumatised clients, a study led by researchers... Read more
Image - NDARC staff awarded Mental Health Early Career Researcher Awards
Category: Internal NDARC
Congratulations to Dr Nicola Newton, Dr Christina Marel and Dr Lexine Stapinski from the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Mental Health and Substance Use (CREMS), based at NDARC, who have been... Read more
Image - Study shows Australians live longer but aren’t healthy
A new study from the Global Burden of Disease Project shows that people across Australia are living longer but spending more time in ill health with nonfatal diseases and injuries such as low back... Read more