Plenary One: Opioids
Session Chair:听Ms听Carolyn Paterson
Using linked cohorts to examine population-wide effects of opioid agonist treatments in NSW. |听Scientia Professor Louisa Degenhardt, AO
Keynote Address:听The UK supervised heroin treatment trial: success and failure to advance science, policy and practice. |听Professor Sir John Strang
Keynote Address:听Examining Trends in Drug-Related Deaths 鈥� the crucial importance of cohorts in informing our understanding of changing risks and harms. |听Professor Matthew Hickman
Global coverage of interventions to prevent and manage injecting drug use related harms in prisons: a systematic review. |听Dr Thomas Santo Jr
Development of opioid use disorder following treatment with opioid analgesics for non-cancer pain relief: an Australian state-wide nested case-control study. |听Dr Chrianna Bharat
Poster Presentations
Session听Chair:听Professor Mel Miller
Ms Joanna Zhou:听Retention in opioid agonist treatment following childbirth and associated factors.
Ms Kendal Chidwick:听Trends in prescription opioid analgesic utilisation in Australia from 2015 to 2022.
Dr Ria Hopkins:听Age, period, and cohort trends of substance poisoning, alcohol-related disease, and suicide deaths in Australia, 1980-2019..
Ms Olivia Price:听Population ageing and the apparent decline in the initiation of injecting drug use in Australia.
Dr Tayla Degan:听Co-occurring DSM-IV mental disorders among people with methamphetamine dependence.
Ms Emily Symes:听Presentations and characteristics of trans and gender-diverse patients presenting to an Australian Emergency Department.
Plenary Two:听New, Novel, and Trending
Session Chair:听Professor Nadine Ezard
The Changing Face of Overdose. |听Professor Shane Darke
Emerging drugs of concern - Prompt Response Network update.|听Dr Brendan Clifford
Emerging drug use, harms, and markets trends: Findings from Drug Trends 2024. |听Dr Rachel Sutherland
Breakout One:听Treatment & Trials
Session Chair:听Professor听Apo Demirkol
New behavioural and pharmacological trials for smoking cessation. |听Associate Professor Ryan Courtney &听Professor Hayden McRobbie
LAIB in Prison: A report on qualitative data from patients who commenced treatment during a clinical trial. |听Dr Amelia Woods
The impact of the NSW MERIT diversion program reoffending, imprisonment, and health. |听Professor Donald Weatherburn
We need to talk about contingency management. |听Associate Professor Rebecca McKetin
Breakout Two:听Community Engagement & Responses
Session Chair: Ms Lisa Russell
Defining approaches and research evidence around Community Action to reduce AOD harms | Dr Peter Gates
Due to a camera failure in 'Breakout Two: Community Engagement & Responses', not all recordings have been captured. These presentations are being rerecorded and will be available shortly.
Breakout Three:听Strong Foundations: Pregnancy & Families
Session Chair:听Dr Hester Wilson
Influences of methamphetamine use on family relationships: Interviews with family members. |听Ms Paige Webb
Effectiveness of prescription smoking cessation pharmacotherapies during pregnancy: a multi-national study. |听Dr Alys Havard
Trends in the use of opioid agonist treatment for opioid dependence in pregnancy. |听Dr Duong Tran
Use of opioid agonist therapy in pregnancy: Timing of initiation and treatment retention. |听Ms Bianca Varney
Plenary Three:听Alcohol
Session Chair:听Mr听Matthew Craig
WHO's Global Alcohol Action Plan 2022鈥�2030.听 What are the critical issues for Prevention and Policy? |听Professor J眉rgen Rehm
Recent trends in alcohol use and harms in Australia. |听Dr Wing See Yuen
Alcohol Retailers Lobbying activities: A Comparative Analysis of profit and Non-profit alcohol retail industry body policy submissions. |听Dr Michala Kowalski
26 Sept 2024
NDARC Symposiums