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- 20 June 2019Turning Point and Monash University are currently recruiting participants for a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funded trial, where two types of telephone-delivered support programs are being tested to reduce alcohol use and related harms.
- 29 May 2019Turning Point is using coded ambulance clinical records to monitor self-harm, mental ill health and substance use in the Australian community.
- 8 May 2019Google.org has announced today that Turning Point, in partnership with Monash University, will receive a major grant to use artificial intelligence (AI) to assist the coding of national ambulance data for suicide-related attendances.
- 8 May 2019Google announced today that Turning Point, Australia’s leading addiction treatment and research centre, is one of 20 organisations world-wide that will share USD$25 million in grants from Google.org, credit and consulting from Google Cloud and coaching by Google’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) experts as a grantee of the Google AI Impact Challenge.
- 1 April 2019Researchers are seeking participants for a study that aims to identify the elements that impact decision-making, including the reasons why people continue to use harmful drugs.
- 19 March 2019From April 2019, Victorian general practitioners (GPs) can access the General Practitioner Clinical Advisory Service (GPCAS), a peer-to-peer advice service for GPs to help them support patients with prescription medication concerns and complex needs.
- 25 January 2019Monash University researchers are currently conducting a world-first study examining how the brain and thinking skills are changed in people who develop an addiction to alcohol.
- 23 January 2019Monash University researchers are currently conducting a world-first study examining how the brain and thinking skills are changed in people who develop an addiction to alcohol.
- 26 November 2018Funded by the State Government, the SafeScript General Practitioner Clinical Advisory Service (GPCAS) will commence across the Western Victoria Primary Health Network (PHN) from Monday, 3rd December 2018.
- 18 September 2018Victoria’s new SafeScript Pharmaceutical Helpline is available for people concerned about their use of prescription medicines.