• A Pilot Study of Rimonabant for the Treatment of Cannabis Dependence
• A retrospective study of endocarditis, IVDU and substance use disorder in regional NSW
• Abuse Liability of Pharmaceutical Opioid Analgesics: Adapting Traditional Methods to Contemporary Problems
• Accelerating the development of evidence for drug and alcohol practice and policy
• Accessing Organisations With Complex Needs
• Achieving Mental Health Outcomes through Drug Diversion Programs: the MERIT Health Outcomes Study
• Addressing alcohol related harm through a regional approach to alcohol management
• Alcohol expectancy effects on the cognitive biases that underlie social phobia
• Alcohol industry sponsorship at Australian universities: a survey of governing bodies and student associations
• An Alternative Framework for Measuring the Economic Cost of Drug Abuse
• An investigation of the community impact of a Medically Supervised Injectable Maintenance Clinic
• Anxiety Sensitivity in adults with alcohol use disorders: norms and relationship with alcohol use and psychosocial outcomes at 3 months after hospital discharge
• Are young people really drinking twice as much as their parents? Evidence from an Australian birth cohort study
• Arrest rates among methamphetamine users and their correlates
• Assessing enforcement of policy on limiting alcohol accessibility and alcohol purchasing
• Assessment and antiviral treatment for chronic HCV at an OST treatment centre: ongoing audit
• Australia’s new drinking culture: Explaining and understanding why young people drink
• Ben Cousins: fallen hero or disgraced role model?
• Benzodiazepine Treatment Capacity Building Project : Findings from Service Provider and Service User Interviews
• Birth and developmental outcome among children of substance abusing women attending a Special Child Welfare Clinic in Norway
• Can forensic drug intelligence really make a difference?
• Can specialist nurses improve long term management of clients with complex needs identified when detained for public drunkenness?
• CAYLUS-Inhalant Abuse Prevention Initiaitives in Central Australia
• Characteristics of substance-using pregnant women attending a public antenatal clinic
• Chemical Drug Intelligence - 'A view of the Drug Market'
• CLIMATE Schools: Cannabis and Alcohol Module: A cluster randomised controlled trial for the prevention of alcohol and cannabis use in adolescents
• Clinical interventions for cannabis related problems: what's new at NCPIC?
• Combined versus single focused interventions for comorbid depression and alcohol problems: the DAISI project
• Comparing deaths associated with methadone and buprenorphine treatment
• Comparing jurisdictional approaches to the implementation of buprenorphine-naloxone (Suboxone^®) in New South Wales, Victoria, and Western Australia
• Completion and seroconversion rates following a rapid HBV vaccination program in a methadone clinic
• Concurrent treatment of substance use disorder and PTSD: A case-control comparison
• Concurrent treatment of substance use disorder and PTSD: Does dissociation interfere?
• Culture clash: residential rehabilitation and the criminal justice system
• Current substance use as a predictor of future anabolic-androgenic steroid use: Findings from an Internet-based survey
• Delivery of hepatitis C assessment and treatment for injecting drug users during rehabilitation initiated by primary care services
• Direct alcohol industry sponsorship and hazardous drinking among sportspeople
• Dispensing Fees: The greatest obstacle to retention and recovery via opioid maintenance treatment
• Do amphetamine users attend counselling? Missed opportunities
• Do we expect enough from opioid treatment? And if not, what should we expect?
• Does evidence based training have an impact on treatment outcomes for patients?
• Does “client stability” predict the injection of methadone, buprenorphine and buprenorphine-naloxone among opioid substitution treatment clients?
• Drink or Drunk: Why do staff at licensed premises continue to serve patrons to intoxication despite current laws and interventions?
• Drinking and intoxication: The market, norms and regulation
• Drug User Magazines: More Than Just Another Resource
• Effectiveness and safety of intranasal naloxone for the treatment of heroin overdose by paramedics
• Effectiveness of a smoking cessation service in primary care with enhanced role of the practice nurse
• Effects of the Western Australian cannabis infringement notice scheme on public attitudes, knowledge and use: A comparison of pre -post change survey data
• Embodied imperatives: exploring pregnancy as an 'opportunity for change' in the lives of young injecting drug users
• Enhancing hepatitis C treatment in the alcohol and other drug sector
• Enhancing the skills and knowledge of health professionals in the treatment of psychostimulant users: Evaluation of a national training and dissemination project
• Examining interactions of alprazolam in buprenorphine-naloxone and methadone patients
• Extending Drug Ethno-Epidemiology Using Agent-Based Modelling
• From Hedonism to Habits - alcohol and other drugs in the gay, bisexual and trangender commuities
• From research to practice: The feasibility of peer-led interventions to deliver health information to ecstasy and related drug users
• Guidelines for AOD workers on the managements of co-occuring mental health conditions
• Harm Reduction in Vancouver: What's Working.
• Hepatitis C Treatment in Pharmacotherapy Services: Increasing Treatment Uptake Needs a Critical View
• Hepatitis C treatment needs among opioid substitution treatment clients in inner-city Sydney
• Homelessness among sentinel samples of regular drug users: what do we know?
• How can we measure opioid substitution treatment outcomes to improve treatment services for clients?
• How effective is 'treatment' for the children of substance misusers?
• Impact of adherence on response to therapy during treatment for acute and early chronic HCV infection
• Impact of the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC) on ambulance attendances at opioid overdoses
• Implementation of Two Evidence Based Drug and Alcohol Programs in the NSW Department of Corrective Services
• Influencing Change through Social Marketing: Evaluation of a Club Drugs Campaign
• Initiators: An examination of young injecting drug users who initiate others to injecting
• Intoxication at time of offence among New South Wales prison inmates
• Investigation of Opioid Substitution Treatment adherence to practice standards in South Australian community pharmacies
• Is alcohol the new tobacco?
• Is the age of initiation of alcohol consumption in Australia decreasing?
• Local community responses to public injecting drug use in Victoria
• Makin’ Tracks – a mobile substance misuse program for rural and remote
• Methamphetamine-related fatalities in Australia: Demographics, circumstances, toxicology and major organ pathology
• Modelling Cannabis Diversion
• Modelling the public health consequences of cannabis use in Australia
• Multivariate analysis of predictors of expiators and method of expiation by persons issued a Cannabis Infringement Notice in Western Australia
• Naltrexone Maintenance for Alcohol Dependence; Genetic and Other Determinants
• NSW Cannabis Clinics - Increasing Access to Treatment
• Older adults AOD treatment - is it important?
• Opioid pharmacotherapy and mortality in New South Wales from 1985 to 2006: Rates, patterns, and risk both in and out of treatment
• Perceptions of peer educators and their information sources: a study of 926 ecstasy users in Australia and the Netherlands
• Poly social-drug use in the Australian population: Data from the Australian Longitudinal Study of Health and Relationships
• Predicting Young Adult Alcohol Related Impairment Associated with Alcohol Consumption: A Longitudinal Study
• Prescribing heroin for drug addiction in the UK
• Prescription drug use patterns: the role of gender in use and risk
• Preventing Antisocial Behaviours: The Pathways to Prevention Project as a case study of developmental prevention in disadvantaged communities
• Public discourse on the revised Australian alcohol guidelines for low-risk drinking
• Public Opinion on Illicit Drug Policy: Zero Tolerance, Harm Minimisation or Legalisation?
• Pull the other one: Effects of the prescription restriction lever for benzodiazepines in an isolated drug market
• Reaching a special population of young people through an Addiction Medicine Service in Juvenile Justice
• Recent international developments in naloxone distribution: Implications for Australia
• Recruitment & characteristics of hard-to-treat drug users to RIOTT
• Reducing the drug related harms experienced by prisoners: increasing the opportunities for treatment in correctional centres
• Regarding the inclusion of testing and treatment services for Hepatitis C within existing pharmacotherapy clinics and considering the pros and cons of such a service
• Relationship concordance and social drugs in the Australian population: Insights from the Australian Longitudinal Study of Health and Relationships
• Rethinking global drug control: Implications for Australia and New Zealand
• Retrospective audit of nenatal abstinence at the John Hunter Hospital
• Risky drinking in young women: an investigation into motivations, knowledge and context
• Roadside drug testing: an example of a flawed policy analysis?
• Rovers, internet, resources and partnerships - responding to the use of ecstasy and related drugs in the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) community
• Self assessed quality of life as a tool to evaluate Indigenous residential alcohol and other drug treatment programs
• Should I stay or should I go? The biggest gap in OST...a way out
• Side Effects and Significant Adverse Events with Opioid Maintenance Treatment Medications
• SmokeCheck Indigenous Tobacco Program: A Brief Intervention That Works!
• Smoking cessation intervention among people with a psychotic disorder: 4 year followup
• Social anxiety disorder amongst individuals seeking treatment for substance use problems: more common than we think
• Sustainable Quality - A WA AOD Sector Approach
• Switching patients from Subutex to Suboxone
• The Cochrane Review Group On Drugs and Alcohol & Systematic Reviews Available in the Cochrane Library
• The evaluation of pericyazine for cannabis withdrawal in general practice
• The outcome of a review of NSW drugs in pregnancy services
• The prevalence and nature of drug and alcohol disorders among police cell detainees with and without comorbid psychiatric disorders
• The relationship between high spending on illegal drug use and sources used to pay for drug use among frequent methamphetamine users in New Zealand
• The relationship between methamphetamine use and acquisitive crime among police detainees in New Zealand
• The relationship between substance use disorder, PTSD and criminal behaviour
• The social relations of hepatitis C risk perception among injecting drug users: A qualitative synthesis
• The use of social marketing as a tool to change community perception of moderate drinking and develop support for local alcohol restrictions in remote rural Australia
• Treatment of opioid dependence during pregnancy: challenges and perspectives for health care providers with an emphasis on pharmacotherapy
• Treatment of opioid dependence in the 21st century: old solutions for new problems
• Treatment-seeking and motivation to reduce methamphetamine use amongst a community sample of methamphetamine users
• Universal web-based alcohol screening and brief intervention for university students: a randomised controlled trial
• Updating the Commonwealth Alcohol Treatment Guidelines
• Use of buprenorphine and buprenorphine-naloxone via non-sublingual routes
• Volatile Substances A guide for retailers: Good for your business. Good for your community
• Were community concerns realised in the establishment of an NSP?
• What do we know about prescription opioid use and related harms in Australia?
• What do young Australians think alcohol advertisements tell them about alcohol?
• Will more visible standard drink labelling reduce youth alcohol consumption?
• Young people, AOD and mental health. Early intervention in youth friendly settings – the headspace initiative
• Youth At Work
• ‘Readdressing Client Involvement: Developing a new client charter and feedback mechanisms’

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