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NCETA Launches New Resource: Responding to Pharmaceutical Opioid-related Problems

Responding to Pharmaceutical Opioid-related Problems Resource Launch

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New Workplace Project: Managing Drug and Alcohol Risk to Safety and Worker Wellbeing

NCETA is conducting a three year (2018-20) project to strengthen organisational, employer, and employee responses to AOD risks in the workplace. This project involves working with workplaces and employees to co-design a toolkit to reduce employee AOD use and help organisations and managers respond to employee AOD misuse and workplace related harms. For more information about this project and how to be involved

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Ice: Online Training for Frontline Workers - New Topic

NCETA’s Ice online training resource was developed to help a broad range of frontline workers from the health, welfare, education, criminal justice sectors and other workplaces respond to people who use crystal methamphetamine and support their families, friends and co-workers. Topic 5.10 Working with Families was added in March 2018. This topic focuses on workers providing health and human services to people with crystal methamphetamine related issues and their families. It gives workers an overview of the interventions that can help support families, as well as referral options and mandated responsibilities. This is Australia’s only free comprehensive online training resource on crystal methamphetamine. It contains seven modules and 30 topics, and has over 11,000 registered users. To access this resource

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Drug and Alcohol Research Connections

NCETA is proud to contribute to the Drug and Alcohol Research Connections newsletter. This publication is produced quarterly by the collaborative network of alcohol and other drug research centres; National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) at UNSW; National Drug Research Institute (NDRI) at Curtin University; National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction (NCETA); and National Centre For Youth Substance Use Research (NCYSUR) at The University of Queensland.

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