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Project Status:
Current
Treatment and Intervention
Online treatments for Suicidal Behaviours - Online interventions for people presenting to Emergency Department with self-harm or suicidal behaviors
Project Status:
Current
Understanding the use of pain management and other health services by people living with chronic pain
This qualitative study will use semi-structured interviews to explore the experiences of ~30 Australians living with CNCP as they navigate the health system.
Project Status:
Current
Data-supported decision making: optimising substance dependence treatment using linked data
This PhD project aims to inform substance dependence prevention and treatment by utilising population-representative epidemiological and observational data to develop and validate models of substance dependence related outcomes.
Project Status:
Current
Novel interventions to address methamphetamines in Aboriginal communities, including a randomised trial of a web based therapeutic tool used to treat dependence in clinical settings.
Methamphetamine use in Aboriginal communities has gained much media attention, despite limited research studies to ascertain the full extent of its use and its impact.
Project Status:
Current
Circumstances of death of opioid users being treated with naltrexone
Retrospective study of all deaths among people undergoing naltrexone treatment for opioid dependence retrieved from the National Coronial Information System, 2000-2017.
Project Status:
Completed
Advancing the health of people who use drugs: hepatitis C and drug dependence (ASCEND)
Project Status:
Current
An open-label, multicentre, single-arm trial of monthly injections of depot buprenorphine in people with opioid dependence
Retaining patients in buprenorphine treatment is essential in maximising treatment outcomes and minimising mortality risk. Delivery of treatment via novel depot buprenorphine products has the potential to enhance patient adherence and retention in treatment.
Project Status:
Current
Untreated Remission from Alcohol Problems
This PhD project will examine untreated remission from alcohol problems. This will involve understanding the way in which those with alcohol problems engage in ‘spontaneous remission’ or ‘natural recovery’ outside the treatment setting.
Project Status:
Current
Opioid Agonist Treatment and Safety (OATS) Study
This project will use linked administrative data to understand risk for mortality and other adverse outcomes during and after opioid agonist treatment (OAT). It will use standard biostatistical approaches and sophisticated machine learning techniques.
Project Status:
Current