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I would like to invite you to participate in a consultation process being undertaken by the Australian National Council on Drugs (ANCD) on behalf of FaHCSIA, involving stakeholders in the drug and alcohol, family support and child protection sectors about refocussing the Program to better meet the needs of vulnerable and at risk families and children who are affected by problematic drug and alcohol use [Australian Government]
I believe that informed adults should be allowed to inflict whatever suffering they wish on themselves but we are not entitled to harm other people {also appeared in Guardian, UK} [The Canberra Times, Australia]
[National Indigenous Drug and Alcohol Committee, Australia]
A new campaign and website about cannabis and mental health for young people [Somazone & Australian Drug Foundation]
It is Australia’s peak body representing parents, carers and others interested in or affected by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) [NOFSARD]
Vumbaca, executive director of the Australian National Council on Drugs will today join Health Minister Nicola Roxon in Canberra to launch a new ANCD report on indigenous incarceration and health, one that calls for radical changes to the status quo [The Australian]
Sixty per cent of all homicides in Australia are committed by people who are intoxicated, usually with alcohol [Sydney Morning Herald, Australia]
A comprehensive overview of hep C but with newly added information on Fibroscan, liver surgery and transplant, rapid viral response and early viral response [Hepatitis C Council of NSW, Australia]
We are the peak community-based hepatitis C organisation in the Australian state of New South Wales. We take a partnership approach with people affected by hepatitis C and those working with it [Hepatitis C Council of NSW, Australia]
Cigarette smokers cover their additional health costs through the taxes they pay, but alcohol drinkers cover less than a quarter of their burden on the health system [The Australian]
Alcohol should be viewed as a drug, not as a “relative harmless pastime”, says a leading figure in the treatment of addiction [Sydney Morning Herald, Australia]
The number of different types of illicit drugs continued to expand and the number of countries reporting serious drug problems increased steadily [The Punch, Australia]
First aid isn’t just for bodies, there are guidelines for brains injured by cannabis [The Australian]
This report delivers the latest information on how, as a nation, we are faring according to key indicators of child health, development and wellbeing [Australian Institute of Health and Welfare]
The nightclub scourge of drink spiking is greatly exaggerated and is more likely the result of alcohol consumed willingly by the victim than doping by a predator [The Australian]
A new anti-alcohol lobby group is pushing for tighter rules on advertising, a ban on sports sponsorship, a minimum price for drinks and a tax based on alcohol content to combat what it claims is the $15 billion cost of heavy drinking [The Age, Australia]
These guidelines have been prepared as a reference for those involved in collecting and supplying the data for the Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services National Minimum Data Set (AODTS-NMDS) [Australian Institute of Health and Welfare]
The guidelines, which had input from a panel of experts in five countries, are targetted at problem users among the more than one-third of people aged 14 and over who have used the drug, according to a 2007 survey from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare [The Age, Australia]
NCPIC and the Drug and Alcohol Multicultural Education Centre (DAMEC) are investigating the pathways and barriers people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds experience when accessing services for co-existing mental health and cannabis use issues [NCPIC, Australia]
Territorians are drinking the Irish lads under the table and have become the world’s undisputed booze-swilling kings [Northern Territory News, Australia]
