Cannabis and the workforce
Workplace substance use incurs substantial costs to society and employers through decreased workplace productivity as well as increased employee turnover, absenteeism and worker stress.
Project Status:
Completed
Patterns of alcohol and drug use
Injecting Drug Users Reference Group: The Reference Group to the UN on HIV and Injecting Drug Use
The Reference Group to the United Nations on HIV and Injecting Drug Use was established in 2002 and provides independent advice to the United Nations system on matters related to injecting drug use and HIV.
Project Status:
Completed
Global Burden of Disease: Mental Disorders and Illicit Drug Use Expert Group
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.
Project Status:
Current
Characteristics, circumstances and toxicology of sudden or unnatural deaths involving very high range alcohol concentrations
Alcohol consumption is strongly linked to premature mortality. This study aims to characterise sudden or unnatural deaths with very high range blood alcohol concentrations that presented to the Department of Forensic Medicine in Sydney between 1997-2011.
Project Status:
Completed
The characteristics of cannabis in Australia
There is little detailed information about the Australian cannabis market, including the chemical characteristics of the locally available cannabis product.
Project Status:
Completed
Tracking the course of substance-induced versus independent depression: diagnostic change upon follow-up?
Over three million Australians have a lifetime alcohol use disorder and one in five will have co-occurring major depression in the last year.
Project Status:
Current
The Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS)
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.
Project Status:
Current
The Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System (EDRS)
The Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System (EDRS) is a national monitoring system for ecstasy and related drugs that is intended to identify emerging trends of local and national interest in the markets for these drugs.
Project Status:
Current
Comparative patterns of cognitive performance amongst opioid maintenance patients, abstinent opioid users and non-opioid users
This study compared the cognitive performance of opioid maintainance clients, abstinent ex-users of opioids, and healthy, non-heroin using controls.
Project Status:
Completed
Alcohol and violence: Alcohol consumption, homicide and completed suicide in Australia, 1979-2009
Alcohol consumption is strongly associated with premature mortality. The current study aimed to determine the strength of association between national per capita alcohol consumption with homicide and suicide rates in Australia across the period 1979-2009.
Project Status:
Completed