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July 2008 Vol. 6 No. 3

• Guest Editorial: Truth lives in death data
• Research Digest: Cannabis: Indigenous use
• Research Digest: Cannabis: Leaving school early
• Research Digest: Cannabis: Brief intervention with adolescents
• Research Digest: Cannabis: Withdrawal syndromes
• Smoking: A case for harm reduction
• Drug use in Australia
• Dual diagnosis dollars: delivering the goods
• Alcohol action aplenty
• Schools and drugs
• Drugs around the world: China grappling with change
• Where have all the staff gone?
• Cannabis: A cloud over our community
• Drug deaths: Why they matter

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April 2008 Vol. 6 No. 2

• Guest Editorial: Alcohol: Time for a change
• Opinion: The historical burden of prohibition
• Research Digest: Treatment experiences of hep C positive and negative clients
• Research Digest: Depression screening in methamphetamine clients
• Research Digest: Methadone & buprenorphine related ambulance attendance
• Alcohol: What people think
• Young people and alcohol: A cultural shift?
• The bottle and the baby: Alcohol & the unborn child
• Play hard, party hard
• Treating pain, beating addiction
• Beyond borders: Responding to HIV
• Women, drugs and Iran
• A day in the life of … Lan Mong Nguyen

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January 2008 Vol. 6 No. 1

• Opinion: Anti-drug campaigns work by provoking people close to users
• Research digest: Higher mortality rates for former inmates
• Research digest: Suicide risks for released prisoners
• Research digest: High rates of mental health disorders in recent inmates
• Research digest: Hep C infection rates increase in prison
• From chronic to acute: The Emergency Response in the Northern Territory
• Opinion: Cutting alcohol abuse and violence
• Compulsory treatment: It’s not the answer
• SE Asia: Locked up
• 2 Nations, 10 Cultures
• Dual diagnosis: Where to from here?
• Drug use snapshot: The 2007 IDRS and EDRS findings
• Post-traumatic stress disorder
• Working out a career
• A day in the life of … Michael Harvey
• Secrets of prevention: Youth drug use
• Secrets of prevention: Crime prevention
• Secrets of prevention: The monograph

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October 2007 Vol. 5 No. 4

• Guest editorial: Keeping the sector informed
• Let’s get serious about tackling Indigenous substance misuse in NT
• Drug policies: You be the judge
• Celebrating the sector: the 2007 National Drug and Alcohol Awards
• Nigel Dick AM: the driving force behind Odyssey House
• Drug and alcohol honour roll: Recognition for outstanding service
• Excellence in prevention: A breath of fresh air
• Excellence in treatment: Turning around young offenders
• Excellence in research: Tackling alcohol treatment
• Excellence in services for young people: Caring for the kids
• Excellence in law enforcement: Disrupting the supply of precursors
• Excellence in media reporting: Reporting alcohol use
• Excellence in school drug education: Sharing with parents/Educating peers
• Lure of the needle
• Illicits and crime: recent trends
• Putting the brakes on speed
• Buprenorphine: did you get your dose?
• Give consumers a say

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July 2007 Vol. 5 No. 3

• Guest Editorial: Alcohol industry adopts tobacco tactics
• Recent research into young people and nicotine dependencw
• Who is caring for the kids?
• Alcohol and the law: can health win?
• Thinking about drinking again
• Tobacco: no time for complacency
• Treating ‘treatment-resistant’ smokers
• Nicotine vaccine
• 1 Client, 2 needs: hep C and the AOD client
• Australia’s approach to drugs and driving
• A day in the life of …
• What’s it worth? Resources, treatment & health

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April 2007 Vol. 5 No. 2

• Alcohol: Its part in our culture
• ANCD calls for greater meth response
• Edith Collins: Neonatal pioneer
• Industry influence: let's have a policy
• Poster sessions from the APSAD Conference, 2006
• Drugs, alcohol and Indigenous imprisonment
• 1 client, 2 needs: improving access to hep C services
• What do we know about hepatitis C (HCV)?
• AOD use by Australian workers: a risky mix
• Workplace alcohol and other drugs issues: the role of the AOD sector
• A drink, a smoke, a joint: new stats on students' use
• Cultural change: tackling NZ's drinking habits
• Future of not-for-profits: inefficiency on a grand scale?

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January 2007 Vol. 5 No. 1

• Drugs, pregnancy and parenting
• Postscript: success story from NT
• Celebrating 20 years of needle and syringe programs
• Meeting new challenges: the 2006 APSAD Conference
• Pregnancy: opportunity or invasion?
• What is this thing called Drinkwise
• Comorbidity: a chance for a change
• Rolling out a remedy? An update on Opal fuel
• Rural indigenous drug use: a challenge for police
• Illicits and their impact
• Clinical guidelines for residential rehabilitation settings
• Illicits in Asia-Pacific: Australia's Role
• 2006 Drug trends

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October 2006 Vol. 4 No. 4

• Adolescents and substances
• Drug action week heads for milestone
• Celebrating the sector: the 2006 National Drug and Alcohol Awards
• Personal journey helps thousands
• Putting care within reach
• The East Perth Neuropsychology Clinic
• Keeping prevention simple
• Triple J and drug reporting
• One step ahead on the beat
• Indigenous research: making a difference
• School drug education: looking for direction
• The Gatehouse project
• An un-American perspective on drug education for young people
• Stigmatised: tackling perceptions of dual diagnosis
• From school to work: a vulnerable time
• A day in the life of …
• Research: the need for transparency
• Learning through action

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July 2006 Vol. 4 No. 3

• Focussing on methamphetamines
• Methamphetamine users: an E.D. experience
• Meth Whispering: dealing with chaotic clients
• Mental health screening and intervention: PsyCheck
• National Cannabis Strategy 2006–2009
• Books dispel cannabis myths
• A physician's opinion
• Cannabis in the top end
• Hospital-based brief interventions: opportunity knocks
• Naltrexone implants: a clinician's view
• Workchoices: what impact?
• Customs and drugs: detecting illicit entry
• Judging the research: tools for best practice

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April 2006 Vol. 4 No. 2

• Comorbidity: a different picture
• Pharmaceutical diversion: accidental harm reduction?
• No alcohol beyond this point: restricted areas in the top end
• Advertising alcohol: when the best isn't good enough
• People in the field: Superintendent Frank Hansen
• Drug use histories of juveniles in detention
• Drugs and adolescent development: insights from neuroscience
• Agency snapshot: psychosis and drug use
• Spotlight on Asia-Pacific
• Australian training changes attitudes
• Up close and personal
• 'It's my life': ethics in consumer research
• Monitoring Drugs in New Zealand

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January 2006 Vol. 4 No. 1

• Petrol sniffing in aboriginal communities
• Rising to the Challenges: NADA Conference 2005
• Petrol sniffing and alternative fuels: background to a major health problem
• A long-term commitment needed
• Another day, another battle: Blair McFarland & CAYLUS
• Medical cannabis: lost in politics
• Towards a national cannabis strategy
• Focus groups
• Science, practice, experience: APSAD 2005
• 2005 Drug Trends
• Drugs and diversity: issues for a multicultural society
• Echo' Campaign strikes a chord with smokers
• Mass media works in the fight against smoking
• Homeless drug users: changing the way we do things

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October 2005 Vol. 3 No. 4

• Proud research tradition
• 1st National illicit drug diversion workshop
• Drug action week
• Positive stories: a website to inspire others
• Primary pathways: an integrated approach to drug education
• Research in the drug and alcohol sector
• Randomised controlled trials
• Pulling back on retractables
• Celebrating the sector: the National Drug and Alcohol Awards
• Barry Abbott: recognition for an outback hero
• Temazepam injection prevention initiative — a prevention campaign
• The Milton Luger Withdrawal Unit — a journey to excellence
• Streetwize and savvy
• Alison Dean: a passion for social change
• The alcohol linking program — a police/health team effort
• The key elements of motivational interviewing
• Good news about groups
• Treatment: it’s in the mail
• Youth peer education: planning successful programs
• The Grog Book: tips for managing alcohol in Indigenous communities

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July 2005 Vol. 3 No. 3

• Making treatment work
• Indigenous offenders and substance use
• Illicit drug data report 2003–2004
• International youth solvent addictions conference, Canmore, Canada, 15–17 March
• Opioid dependence treatment: Australian research
• Research: its relevance to the treatment sector
• Suboxone: a welcome addition but no silver bullet
• Giving shape to the future: a conference overview
• Thinking drinking — where to from here?
• Developing a new alcohol strategy for Australia
• Drinking patterns in Melbourne pubs and clubs
• Clinical supervision in the alcohol and other drugs field
• Drugs and young people: the national campaign
• Reflecting on the campaign
• Tobacco and the internet: marketing across borders
• A view from the inside: prisoners and drugs
• A view from corrective services
• Peer education: popular but not proven? definitions and recent research
• Peer education: an overused term?
• Drug education forums: a peer education focus
• Peer education: an Australian context

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April 2005 Vol.3 No.2

• Prison reform
• National Hepatitis C awareness week 23–27 May 2005
• Drug policies in Australian prisons
• Prison facts and figures
• Drug use histories of women prisoners
• Hepatitis C in Australian prisons
• International prisons: the need for change
• International prisons: country snapshots
• APSAD annual conference 2004: a delegate’s perspective
• Supporting extended families: grandparents caring for grandchildren
• Grandparents raising grandchildren
• Counting the kids: issues for grandparents
• Stepping stones: helping families cope
• Adolescent alcohol use
• The national alcohol campaign evaluation surveys
• Cocaine use: recent studies highlight the risks
• Drugs & driving: from RBT to RDT
• Drink spiking in Australia: identifying the problem and understanding the needs of victims
• Portrayal of tobacco use in popular films: an investigation of audience impact
• Ecstasy: facts behind the fiction

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January 2005 Vol.3 No.1

• Volatile substances: the need for community-wide solutions
• Alcohol and other drug treatment services in Australia 2002–03
• Volatile substance misuse: an ongoing concern
• Indigenous resource tackles petrol sniffing
• Mount Theo program
• Inhalants and social stigma
• Hepatitis C: increase in new infections to 2003
• Is Australia heading in the right direction?
• Opioid substitution therapy: considering the costs to consumers
• Workplace culture and alcohol use
• Diversion of pharmaceutical drugs
• Case study: the withdrawal of Temazepam capsules in Australia
• Regulation and policing challenges: policing and methamphetamine production in Australia
• National Working Group on the Prevention of the Diversion of Precursor Chemicals
• Clandestine drug laboratories
• Schoolies week in perspective: studies of alcohol drug and risk-taking behaviour
• Queensland schoolies week interventions
• Schoolies Week: Gold Coast
• Schoolies Week: Sunshine Coast

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October 2004 Vol.2 No.4

• Preventing risky substance use and harm
• The need for fresh ideas in Australia
• Prevention in Australia: limiting the harms from all drugs
• RADAR: the online database of ATOD research in Australia
• Alcohol taxation and the low strength alcoholic beverage market
• Lifting the profile of alcohol: outcomes from the NSW Alcohol Summit
• New South Wales Police perspective
• Perspectives from the NGO sector
• Better late than never: a view of treatment outcomes
• Quitting tobacco use while being treated for other drug dependence
• Guidelines for AOD treatment services
• HIV/AIDS and drug use in Asia: challenges and responses
• Filling in the gaps: drug and alcohol data collection
• Drug Use Monitoring Australia
• The Illicit Drug Reporting System
• Addressing the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander illegal drug users in the ACT and region
• Book review — Indigenous Australia and Alcohol Policy

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July 2004 Vol. 2 No. 3

• Chemical cocktails, just don't call them a ‘party’
• Club Health 2004: 3rd International conference on nightlife substance use and related health issues
• Amphetamine-type stimulants: new reports shed light
• Amphetamine and ‘party drugs’, a new guide for proactive policy in Victoria
• Expectations on police
• Cannabis use and young people, a growing demand for treatment amongst young people
• A balanced approach to cannabis — I'd like to see that
• Pot and PALM
• Adolescent smoking, the latest trends from Victoria
• Celebrating the sector: the National Drug and Alcohol Awards,
• Excellence in prevention ‘Throne — cracks in the porcelain': a young women's project
• Excellence in treatment, Oolong House: a holistic approach
• Excellence in research, the school health and harm reduction project
• Excellence in services for young people, Next Step specialist drug and alcohol youth service
• Indigenous drug and alcohol projects: elements of best practice
• Kava use by Aboriginal people in Arnhem Land, monitoring the impacts
• Supervised injecting facilities: an Australian perspective
• Supervised injecting facilities: Melbourne
• Supervised injecting facilities: Australian Capital Territory
• The benefits of supervised injecting facilities
• Rejecting a policy of addiction maintenance

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April 2004 Vol. 2 No. 2

• Hepatitis C and people who inject drugs
• HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C in South East Asia — a growing concern
• Hepatitis C: an overview of current knowledge and strategies
• Ecstasy use in Australia
• Perspectives on narcotics anonymous
• Perspectives on Narcotics Anonymous, a member's perspective
• Perspectives on Narcotics Anonymous, a research perspective
• Perspectives on Narcotics Anonymous, a service perspective
• Accreditation, creating a culture of quality
• Accreditation: the Ted Noffs Foundation experience
• Is accreditation worth the effort?
• Being an active partner: NADA’s view of accreditation
• Accreditation of Victorian agencies
• Benefits for the whole sector
• Alcohol and tobacco, brief interventions
• Responsible alcohol service: challenging society and the law
• Alcohol: the role for police
• Local government: point of contact
• Support for parents in treatment
• Making a difference to both parents and children
• Nobody's clients, children with drug or alcohol-dependent parents

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January 2004 Vol. 2 No. 1

• Cannabis, a cause for concern
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' Complementary Action Plan, start from the ground and work up
• The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' Complementary Action Plan
• Cannabis law reform — Western Australia passes new legislation
• Comorbidity, cannabis and complexity
• Australia's drug courts
• Paying the price: remuneration and workforce development
• Time for a change, warnings on tobacco
• International Drug Control System
• Ethics in research involving people who use illicit drugs, promoting the perspective of people who use illicit drugs
• Ethics in research involving people who use illicit drugs, a research perspective
• Ethics in research involving people who use illicit drugs, a reminder of the need for clear guidelines
• The NSW Summit on Alcohol Abuse, a personal reflection
• The NSW Summit on Alcohol Abuse, young people set the pace
• Treatment approaches for amphetamine users, concepts and research directions
• Amphetamine treatment, medical management of amphetamine use: a clinicians' guide
• Cognitive behaviour therapy

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October 2003 Vol. 1 No. 1

• Editorial for Of Substance
• Confusion abounds: a focus on methamphetamine use
• Alcohol advertising and promotion
• Alcohol marketing
• Facing up to Australia's drinking culture
• Alcohol marketing
• Brewers
• Comorbidity
• Amphetamine-type stimulants — an update on the Australian experience
• Needle and syringe program services in Australia
• Needle and syringe programs: a proven public health initiative
• The case for medicinal cannabis
• Workforce development: looking beyond training
• Drug education is REDI for a change
• Implementing the REDI materials
• ‘Safe’ cigarette could save lives
• Police drug diversion
• Police diversion programs