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Tags: homelessness
Status: Current
Platform 70 is a project of the National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness and commenced in 2011. The project has the following key objectives:
To place 70 rough sleepers in the Woolloomooloo... Read more
Attitudes of people who inject drugs towards threshold quantities for drug trafficking in NSW and SA
Tags: IDU
Status: Current
Legal threshold quantities for drug trafficking are used most Australian jurisdictions to define the quantity over which possession of an illicit drug is deemed “trafficking” versus “personal use” (... Read more
Tags: opioid pharmacotherapy treatment (OPT), prison, crime, NSW
Status: Current
Prisoners are a marginalised group placing considerable costs on society. They experience very high rates of drug dependence, health problems and premature mortality. Without intervention they are... Read more
Status: Current
The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) project provides comprehensive and comparable data on mortality and loss of health due to diseases, injuries and risk factors for all regions of the world. The... Read more
Status: Current
To facilitate research and training to minimise the harms from drug use and to increase the effectiveness of drug treatment internationally.
Status: Current
The Triple B Study: Bumps, Babies and Beyond is an innovative Australian study of approximately 1600 families. The project is a longitudinal pregnancy cohort which examines a wide range of... Read more
Status: Current
Most individuals with cannabis use disorder do not seek treatment, and this is often due to problems with accessibility and concerns about privacy. Web-based therapy addresses these two major... Read more
Status: Current
Over three million Australians have a lifetime alcohol use disorder and one in five will have co-occurring major depression in the last year. The clinical outcomes for those presenting with co-... Read more
Tags: PWID, drug trends
Status: Current
The Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS) is a national illicit drug monitoring system intended to identify emerging trends of local and national concern in illicit drug markets. The IDRS consists of... Read more