• A matter of human rights: An examination of the denial of the rights of people seeking treatment for alcohol and other drug conditions from health services
• A Profile of clients with alcohol as the principal drug of concern receiving alcohol and other drug treatment services in Australia
• A specialised model of residential care for older adults with challenging behaviours resulting from an alcohol related brain injury
• ACCU: The Adolescent Cannabis Check-up
• Alcohol Harms in 18-24 year olds: an 8 year profile
• Ambulance attendances related to pharmaceutical opioids: Trends and presenting characteristics 1998-2006
• An evaluation of a heroin overdose prevention and education campaign
• An Evaluation of the AIMS Brief Intervention for Young People Who Are Using Substances
• An evidence-based approach for the AOD sector
• An Investigation of Factors associated with Paranoid Ideation among a Sample of Regular Ecstasy Consumers
• Anabolic-androgenic steroid use in Australia: What do we know, why do we want to know, and how can we find out?
• 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
• Blurred – An indicated health promotion activity, collecting images by young people on their experiences of substance use, within a youth clinical counselling service
• Buprenorphine Injection and Risk of HIV and Hepatitis among IDUs in Nepal
• Cannabis and costs to the criminal justice system
• Cause-specific mortality over time in a cohort of individuals on opioid substitution treatment -New South Wales, 1985 to 2005
• Child maltreatment as a risk factor for psychiatric comorbidity among persons with opioid dependence and a matched control group
• Clinical trial literacy among injecting drug users in Sydney, Australia
• Collaborative partnerhsips in responding to young people with co-existing mental health and substance problems
• Comparison of Substance Use in the Australian and U.S. Household Surveys
• Coordinating Sector Development in Comorbidity:The WA approach
• Creating evidence from practice: the role of action- research in D&A service models
• Dancing On Water: How a sole D&A Clinician negotiates the challenges of working in a NSW South Coast Rural Community
• Developing guidelines through a consensus process
• Diagnostic issues in the substance use disorders: Toward an empirically derived DSM-V and ICD-11
• Diversion of prescription drugs: trends over time and implications for treatment and policy
• Does amphetamine use predict offending patterns among detainees at the East Perth watch-house?
• Does cannabis use increase the risk of death? Systematic review of epidemiological evidence on adverse effects of heavy cannabis use
• Drug policy in action: observing the impacts on drug-taking behaviour through a web based survey
• Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System: Bingers versus non-bingers substance use, risk taking and harms
• Ecstasy users: Vulnerability factors for depression and anxiety symptomatology
• Effecting change with recidivist drink drivers
• Establishment of a dedicated buprenorphine/naloxone service within a comprehensive pharmacotherapy service
• Evaluating the 2004-2009 phase of Australia’s National Drug Strategy: challenges and implementation framework
• Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of the Gatehouse intervention
• Experiences of Suboxone treatment in WA, Victoria and NSW….some unintended effects of policy
• Filtering pharmaceutical opioids for injection: What methods are being used and how effective are they?
• First point of contact. The evidence into practice of frontline comorbidity care for nurses and midwives
• Guides to dealing with risky drinking for parents and teenagers
• HCV treatment in a regional opioid substitution clinic
• High rate of mortality in a large community-based cohort of inner city residents
• High risk alcohol use amongst a group of regular injecting drug users
• How to establish best-practice clinical supervision for a state-wide ATOD sector in a few easy (!) steps
• Influences on Opioid Pharmacotherapy Prescribing In General Practice in Victoria
• Injectable Opioid Treatment- Clinical experiences of the first fully supervised prescribed opioid treatment clinic in the UK
• Is It Really Crystal Clear That Using Methamphetamine Causes People To Engage In Unsafe Sex?
• Maintaining the availability of treatment: an innovative Medical Workforce development project in NSW
• Managing Alcohol - the Fitzroy Crossing example
• Maternal smoking during pregnancy predicts nicotine disorder (dependence or withdrawal) in young adults - a birth cohort study
• Measuring Quality of Life in Alcohol and Other Drug users – the need for improvement
• Metacognitions among methamphetamine users in a randomised trial of motivational interviewing and cognitive behaviour therapy
• Methodological and participant characteristics associated with retention in longitudinal studies of substance users
• Mode effect and international tobacco smoking estimates: evidence from the National Drug Strategy Household Survey
• New drug trends – are monitoring systems based on theory or thin air?
• Non government AOD Workforce in NSW: Profile and discussion of key workforce challenges
• On the dance floor and in the lounge room: responding to drug use trends in the same-sex attracted community
• Opioid agonist pharmacotherapy in New South Wales from 1985 to 2006: Patient characteristics and patterns and predictors of treatment retention
• Opioid pharmacotherapy maintenance: supply and demand and service system modelling
• Outpatient Clinic follow-up following alcohol or drug related hospital admissions: An evaluation
• Patterns of cannabis usage in the Australian population: Data from the Australian Longitudinal Study of Health and Relationships
• Patterns of substance use in male incarcerated drug users in Sri Lanka
• Pharmaceutical opioid injection in high and low heroin availability jurisdictions: the who & why
• Post Operative Recovery of Opioid Tolerant Patients
• Post-traumatic stress disorder amongst homeless, substance-using adults
• Predictors of risky sexual behaviour in incarcerated drug users in Sri Lanka
• Prevalence of Malnutrition among Patients Undergoing Alcohol and Drug Detoxification
• Prospective audit of referrals to a drug and alcohol consultation liaison service
• Reasons for leaving treatment: findings from the Alcohol and other Drug Treatment Services National Minimum Data Set
• Reflections on monitoring: highlights of the Illicit Drug Reporting System and implications for policy
• REPIDU primary health care clinic: extending health care for Injecting Drug Users: a descriptive case study
• Reward drive and rash impulsivity in dysfunctional eating and hazardous drinking women
• Statement of care: Contracts that provide positive outcomes for patients with drug and alcohol problems in hospitals
• Stepping Stones – Turning barriers and stumbling blocks into gateways and stepping stones to success
• Stimulating Access: Attracting and retaining stimulant users in a treatment program
• Surveillance of drug use among young people attending a music festival in Australia, 2005-08
• Systematic gender differences in opioid substitution treatment: challenges and opportunities for enhanced service delivery
• The 'Can Do' initiative: multidisciplinary mental health and substance use education in the primary health care sector
• The 2007 National Drug Strategy Household Survey: sample, questionnaire and collection modes
• The acceptability of combined methadone-naloxone: consumer views on the potential utility of methadone-naloxone
• The Dynamics of Shame: Implications for the counsellor when working in residential rehab
• The emergence of a specialist role in rural alcohol and drug service delivery: Lessons from a review in rural Victoria, Australia
• The occurrence of injection-related injury and disease among IDUs attending a primary health care setting
• They drink less but the harms are greater: Patterns and consequences of alcohol use in Melbourne’s Vietnamese community
• Towards DSM-V/ICD-11: Establishing Diagnostic Thresholds along the Alcohol Problems Continuum using Trend Analysis
• Use of Brown Heroin in a group of regular Injecting Drug Users in New South Wales
• Using a collaborative research approach to improve comorbidity services at The Buttery
• Western Australian detainees and amphetamine type substances: Intimate profile study
• What women want in alcohol dependence recovery: Ways to maintain and sustain care for a special population of women in Australia
• Who presents for treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder and alcohol problems?
• 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
• Working with “Dual Presentations” of Substance Abuse and Family Violence

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