Events

Family and friends can find it confusing and distressing to support a loved one who is struggling with alcohol or drugs, but support is available for them and you every third Wednesday of the month.

This session aims to briefly cover the main opioid agonist pharmacotherapies for opioid dependence, and summarise the evidence for the use of these treatments for pharmaceutical opioid dependence.

Compassion is a relatively new area of research, largely driven by fMRI studies showing that compassion is a positive state of mind and associated with feelings of warmth, concern, reward and affiliation.

In this webinar, Vicky Phan will provide an overview of currently available evidence and guidelines on the use of long acting injectable buprenorphine.

Dr Jesse Young, PhD MPH BSc will present findings on service use patterns and health outcomes for people with mental health and substance use disorders released from prison generated from several of the largest cohort studies to link routinely collected administrative health and justice data, globally. Implications for policy and practice will be discussed.

Presented by Victoria Manning, this talk will provide an overview of the different types of cognitive training and will review the latest evidence for their efficacy in improving targeted cognitive processes and outcomes of relevance to alcohol and drug use disorders.

Presented by Frank Hughes, this workshop will examine the links between substance use and suicide and present evidence-based basic risk assessment and prevention interventions most likely to be effective for this group

Presented by Dr Stephanie Merkouris, the focus of the workshop is to increase awareness and knowledge about problem gambling behaviours.

Presented by Stephen Borg and Nic Robinson-Griffith this workshop will provide participants with an understanding of the unique drivers, complexities and risk factors of problematic substance use for LGBTI communities.

Presented by Dr Stephanie Merkouris, this workshop aims to enable clinicians to identify people exhibiting problem gambling behaviours and be able to provide some basic harm minimisation strategies to help reduce the risks of ongoing gambling harms.