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Dr Ryan Courtney
Congratulations to Dr Ryan Courtney who has been awarded a prestigious NSW Cancer Institute Early Career fellowship worth $558,511. The grant will support his NHMRC funded randomised controlled trial... Read more
Illicit drug information booklets for students, parents and teachers.
Category: National Drug
Every secondary school across Australia will this week receive a new, free and evidence-based drug education resource that aims to empower young people to make positive choices for their health and... Read more
UNSW Medicine Dean Professor Peter Smith
Category: Internal NDARC
The accomplishments of four NDARC staff members were recognised at the 2014 UNSW Medicine Dean’s Awards on Tuesday 11 November.   Dr Suzanne Nielsen and Dr Michael Livingston were recipients of... Read more
UNSW Tall Poppy award winners 2014
Dr Nicola Newton has won a 2014 NSW Tall Poppy award for her outstanding research into the prevention of substance misuse among young people.   As a Senior Research Fellow at the National Drug... Read more
APSAD Awards
Congratulations to NDARC’s Professor Maree Teesson and Dr Sarah Larney who have been recognised for their achievements at the 2014 Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs (APSAD... Read more
Drug Policy Modelling Program (DPMP)
Researchers at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre's (NDARC) Drug Policy Modelling Program (DPMP) enjoyed multiple successes in the latest round of Australian Research Council funding... Read more
Professor Louisa Degenhardt
A research project that will analyse data on 160,000 people across 31 countries to plug gaps in understanding about the incidence and life course of mental and substance use disorders has been... Read more
Ice use increases among people who inject drugs: 2014 IDRS
Category: National Drug
Overall use of methamphetamine has stabilised, but ice use has increased among people who inject drugs 61 per cent of people who regularly inject drugs reported using ice in the previous six... Read more
Use of synthetic cannabis drops: 2014 Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System (EDRS)
Category: National Drug
Use of synthetic cannabis has halved among a group of regular stimulant drug users and use of other synthetic drugs appears to have stabilised, a national drugs trends conference will hear today... Read more
Image - New study explores drug use among gay and bisexual men
Category: National Drug
The Kirby Institute at UNSW is recruiting gay and bisexual men living in Australia to participate in a study exploring what influences their attitudes and decisions about drug use, how these change... Read more