Poster Session 1

Monday, 24 November 2008 12:00 - 12:45, Bayside Gallery

Reward drive and rash impulsivity in dysfunctional eating and hazardous drinking women
  • Natalie Loxton, University of Queensland
Mode effect and international tobacco smoking estimates: evidence from the National Drug Strategy Household Survey
  • Dr Paul Meyer, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Barriers for implementation of alcohol interventions; public and D&A professionals' disagreement on the optimal set of interventions to reduce alcohol related harm in rural communities
  • Dennis Petrie
Is It Really Crystal Clear That Using Methamphetamine Causes People To Engage In Unsafe Sex?
  • Dr Erol Digiusto, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of NSW
Guides to dealing with risky drinking for parents and teenagers
  • Amanda J Holt, NSW Health
Blurred – An indicated health promotion activity, collecting images by young people on their experiences of substance use, within a youth clinical counselling service
  • Mr John M Kelly, Youth Community Team, Alcohol and Drug service, Queensland Health
  • Ms Emma Armitage
Reasons for leaving treatment: findings from the Alcohol and other Drug Treatment Services National Minimum Data Set
  • Karen Blakey-Fahey, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
  • Amber Summerill, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Opioid agonist pharmacotherapy in New South Wales from 1985 to 2006: Patient characteristics and patterns and predictors of treatment retention
  • Lucinda Burns, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW
An Evaluation of the AIMS Brief Intervention for Young People Who Are Using Substances
  • Ms Jane Fischer, Centre for Drug and Alcohol Studies, Queensland Health
Stimulating Access: Attracting and retaining stimulant users in a treatment program
  • Susan L Hudson, St Vincent's Hospital
Metacognitions among methamphetamine users in a randomised trial of motivational interviewing and cognitive behaviour therapy
  • Nicole K Lee, Turning Point
Systematic gender differences in opioid substitution treatment: challenges and opportunities for enhanced service delivery
  • Ms Belinda Lloyd, Drugs of Dependence Unit, Queensland Health
ACCU: The Adolescent Cannabis Check-up
  • Ms Etty Matalon, National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre
Post Operative Recovery of Opioid Tolerant Patients
  • Ms Jayne McCarthur, Postanaesthesia Recovery, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia
  • Ms Tara Kennedy, Postanaesthesia Recovery, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia
Injectable Opioid Treatment- Clinical experiences of the first fully supervised prescribed opioid treatment clinic in the UK
  • Mr Rob van der Waal, South London and Mausdsley NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom
An evaluation of a heroin overdose prevention and education campaign
  • Dr Peter G Higgs, Burnet Institute
Buprenorphine Injection and Risk of HIV and Hepatitis among IDUs in Nepal
  • Ajit Karki, Hepa Foundation, Nepal
First point of contact. The evidence into practice of frontline comorbidity care for nurses and midwives
  • Peter Athanasos, Discipline of Nursing, University of Adelaide
Coordinating Sector Development in Comorbidity:The WA approach
  • Ms Melinda Spencer
  • Mike Seward, WANADA
High rate of mortality in a large community-based cohort of inner city residents
  • Jason Grebely, National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of New South Wales
Statement of care: Contracts that provide positive outcomes for patients with drug and alcohol problems in hospitals
  • Patricia J Green, Royal Melbourne Hospital
Post-traumatic stress disorder amongst homeless, substance-using adults
  • Dr Katherine L Mills, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales
Collaborative partnerhsips in responding to young people with co-existing mental health and substance problems
  • Sophie N Morson, Child and Youth Mental Health Service
Ecstasy users: Vulnerability factors for depression and anxiety symptomatology
  • Ms Rebecca M Scott, School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, Monash University
The 2007 National Drug Strategy Household Survey: sample, questionnaire and collection modes
  • David Batts, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Does cannabis use increase the risk of death? Systematic review of epidemiological evidence on adverse effects of heavy cannabis use
  • Bianca Calabria, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales
Child maltreatment as a risk factor for psychiatric comorbidity among persons with opioid dependence and a matched control group
  • Elizabeth Conroy, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
Pharmaceutical opioid injection in high and low heroin availability jurisdictions: the who & why
  • Ms Barbara de Graaff, School of Psychology, University of Tasmania
Patterns of cannabis usage in the Australian population: Data from the Australian Longitudinal Study of Health and Relationships
  • Mr Jason A Ferris, 1Australia Research Centre Sex Health and Society, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Towards DSM-V/ICD-11: Establishing Diagnostic Thresholds along the Alcohol Problems Continuum using Trend Analysis
  • Rachel Grove, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, NSW, Australia
Alcohol Harms in 18-24 year olds: an 8 year profile
  • Sharon Matthews, Turning Point Alcohol & Drug Centre
  • Ms Monica Barratt
New drug trends – are monitoring systems based on theory or thin air?
  • Jane Mounteney, Norway
Ambulance attendances related to pharmaceutical opioids: Trends and presenting characteristics 1998-2006
  • Suzanne Nielsen, Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre
Cause-specific mortality over time in a cohort of individuals on opioid substitution treatment -New South Wales, 1985 to 2005
  • Ms Deborah A Randall, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW
Measuring Quality of Life in Alcohol and Other Drug users – the need for improvement
  • Dr Peter G Miller, Deakin University
Methodological and participant characteristics associated with retention in longitudinal studies of substance users
  • Katherine L Mills, National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre
Who presents for treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder and alcohol problems?
  • Dr Claudia Sannibale, National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre
Western Australian detainees and amphetamine type substances: Intimate profile study
  • Miss Karen L Foster, Edith Cowan University
They drink less but the harms are greater: Patterns and consequences of alcohol use in Melbourne’s Vietnamese community
  • Dr Stefan Gruenert, Odyssey House Victoria, Institute of Studies
On the dance floor and in the lounge room: responding to drug use trends in the same-sex attracted community
  • Angela S Matheson, ACON
What women want in alcohol dependence recovery: Ways to maintain and sustain care for a special population of women in Australia
  • Janice B Withnall, University of Western Sydney
A specialised model of residential care for older adults with challenging behaviours resulting from an alcohol related brain injury
  • Dr Alice M Rota-Bartelink, Wintringham
Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of the Gatehouse intervention
  • Mr Kiusiang Tay-Teo, The University of Melbourne and Deakin University
Evaluating the 2004-2009 phase of Australia’s National Drug Strategy: challenges and implementation framework
  • Mr David McDonald, Siggins Miller (Associate)
  • Dr Sally H Lai, Siggins Miller (Consultant)
Experiences of Suboxone treatment in WA, Victoria and NSW….some unintended effects of policy
  • Ms Amanda Morris, The Langton Centre,NSW
  • Ms Suzanne Robinson, New South Wales Users and AIDS association,NSW
Developing guidelines through a consensus process
  • Amie R Frewen, NCPIC
  • Dr Jill Molan
The Dynamics of Shame: Implications for the counsellor when working in residential rehab
  • Rebecca M Gray, National Centre of HIV Social Research, University of New South Wales
Establishment of a dedicated buprenorphine/naloxone service within a comprehensive pharmacotherapy service
  • Mr James C Nichol, Kullaroo Clinic, North Sydney Central Coast Health Service
  • Ian M Chaussivert, North Sydney Central Coast Area Health Service
  • Ms Karen M Thomas, Kullaroo Clinic, North Sydney Central Coast Health Service
  • Ms Anne M Renouf, Kullaroo Clinic, North Sydney Central Coast Health Service
  • Ms Julie A Carlin, Kullaroo Clinic, North Sydney Central Coast Health Service
REPIDU primary health care clinic: extending health care for Injecting Drug Users: a descriptive case study
  • Dr Sharon Reid, 1) Drug Health Services, Sydney South West Area Health Service; 2) School of Public Health, University of Sydney
Why do GPs take part in opioid substitution programs?: A qualitative pilot study of the factors that shape private prescribers’ participation with the South Australian Private Opioid Substitution Program
  • Jane Scarborough, Drug and Alcohol Services South Australia
An evidence-based approach for the AOD sector
  • Jane L Shelling, Alcohol and other Drugs Council of Australia