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Childhood physical abuse amongst regular drug users
Status: Completed
Childhood physical abuse is common amongst drug users. This body of work examines the extent and nature of childhood physical abuse amongst regular drug users, and its relationship to later drug use... Read more
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Pulmonary granulamatosis amongst injecting drug users
Tags: PWID, drug-related deaths Status: Completed
The intravenous injection of drugs intended for oral use can cause pulmonary granulamatosis. This project aims to determine the number of cases of sudden or unnatural deaths in which pulmonary... Read more
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Circumstances and toxicology of sudden or unnatural deaths involving alprazolam
Tags: benzodiazepines Status: Completed
There has been a great deal of clinical concern regarding alprazolam (Xanax) abuse, so much so that the Therapeutic Goods Administration reclassified the drug effective 1 February 2014 from Schedule... Read more
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Substance use in pregnancy resource development project
Status: Completed
This project involves the development of a resource for the identification, management and, if appropriate, referral of women who are pregnant and have a substance misuse problem. 
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Ongoing surveillance of the diversion and injection of the medications used in opioid substitution treatment
Tags: opioid pharmacotherapy treatment (OPT), Treatment, opioids Status: Completed
Minimising the extent of diversion and injection of the pharmaceutical opioids used in opioid substitution treatment (OST) reduces harms to the individual (such as dependence, injection-related... Read more
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A double blind, randomised, placebo controlled trial of Sativex® for the management of cannabis withdrawal
Tags: cannabis, Treatment Status: Completed
Treatment admissions for cannabis use disorders have risen considerably over the last few years, globally and within Australia. There is currently no effective pharmacotherapy for cannabis dependence... Read more
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The Drug and Alcohol Service Planning Model for Australia – Indigenous Project
Tags: Indigenous Australians Status: Completed
The Drug and Alcohol Service Planning Model for Australia is a planning tool that aims to assist health planners to meet the needs of people with alcohol and other drug problems.  Initial work,... Read more
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Epidemiology of hepatitis C virus in Pennsylvanian state prisons
Tags: prison Status: Completed
This project will use HCV surveillance data to describe the epidemiology of hepatitis C virus (HCV) among people incarcerated in state prisons in Pennsylvania, United States. 
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Social construction and the evidence-based drug policy endeavour
Tags: drug policy Status: Completed
‘Evidence-based policy’ has become the catch-cry of the drug policy field. A growing literature has been dedicated to realising the goal of ‘evidence-based’ drug policy: to maximise the use of... Read more
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The science-policy interface in policy theories: A comparative case study of street level policing for illicit drugs
Tags: policy, law enforcement Status: Completed
This study will shed light on how policy gets formed by police, and what influences the policy formulation process. Two policy case studies: drug detection dogs and police attendance at drug overdose... Read more