Review of adolescent substance use and responses in the WHO Western Pacific Region
Substance use amongst adolescents (those in the age group of 10-19) is an important public health issue in many countries of the region.
Project Status:
Completed
Prevention and early intervention
Public awareness campaigns about recreational cannabis: Evidence Check
This Evidence Check forms a background document for the NSW Government public awareness strategy to reinforce the Government’s message that cannabis use is not supported.
Project Status:
Completed
Development and evaluation of a school-based early intervention to reduce cannabis use and associated harms among high risk adolescents
This research seeks to address the gap in early intervention research for cannabis use by developing and evaluating a school-based early intervention targeting young people suspended from school for a cannabis-related issue.
Project Status:
Current
The RADAR Project: identifying early warning signals on the pathways to alcohol use disorder
Globally, harmful alcohol use continues to be a major modifiable contributor to the burden of disease.
Project Status:
Current
Preventing and treating drug and alcohol harms in remote communities
The National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) have been invited to work with 5 remote NSW communities to retrospectively evaluate a suite of interventions aimed at prevention of drug and alcohol harms from 2012-2014.
Project Status:
Current
The use of anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) and other performance and image enhancing drugs (PIEDs): Patterns of use, motivations and opportunities for intervention
This project aims to describe patterns of AAS and PIEDs use; where people are sourcing them from and why; users' experience of harms; and users' utilisation of health services.
Project Status:
Current
Investigating the relationships between alcohol and other drug use, mental health, early-life factors and life-course outcomes: integrative analyses of data from four Australasian cohort studies
This study will use a highly innovative approach to pool data from four large and long-running Australasian cohort studies to better understand the developmental precursors and psychosocial consequences of teen drinking behaviours.
Project Status:
Completed
Investigating the relationships between cannabis and other drug use, mental health, early-life factors and life-course outcomes: integrative analyses of data from four Australasian cohort studies
This study was the first of its kind to use integrative data analyses – a highly innovative approach – to pool data from four large and long-running Australasian cohort studies to better understand the link between cannabis use and later-life outcomes.
Project Status:
Completed
Substance use in pregnancy resource development project
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.
Project Status:
Completed
Centre of Research Excellence in Mental Health Systems Improvement (CREMSI)
The Centre of Research Excellence in Mental Health Systems Improvement (CREMSI) was funded in 2012 by the National Health and Medical Research Council and is led by the University of Queensland.
Project Status:
Current