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A Review of Australian Clinical Guidelines for Methamphetamine Use Disorder
A Review of Australian Clinical Guidelines for Methamphetamine Use Disorder
Alcohol & Other Drugs National Workforce Survey 2019-2020
Alcohol & Other Drugs National Workforce Survey 2019-2020
EVENT - NCETA at APSAD 2024
The NCETA team will have a booth at APSAD Canberra 2024 from Wednesday 30th October to Friday 1st November 2024 so make sure you come and say hi.
EVENT - NCETA Symposium 2024
NCETA delivered a Symposium showcasing their current work on Thursday 7 March 2024 that was offered in person in the Studio Rooms at Flinders University, Bedford Park and online via zoom.
EVENT - NCETA Symposium 2025
Save Thursday 15th May 2025 for NCETA's 2025 Symposium that will be delivered face to face and online. More information to be provided soon.
Examining the patterns, prevalence and related issues associated with alcohol and other drug (AOD) use among Australian workers.
Examining the patterns, prevalence and related issues associated with alcohol and other drug (AOD) use among Australian workers.
Family Centred Practice in the Alcohol and Other Drug Field
This page contains all the projects and resources compiled by NCETA on this topic.
National Pharmaceutical Drug Misuse Strategy
Project and Stakeholder Information for National Pharmaceutical Drug Misuse Strategy.
NEWS - A Review of Australian Clinical Guidelines for Methamphetamine Use Disorder (Oct 2019)
A Review of Australian Clinical Guidelines for Methamphetamine Use Disorder
NEWS - Alcohol Education for Australian Schools (Dec 2014)
The issue of youth alcohol consumption has received considerable attention in recent years. Although a primary prevention approach has often been implemented in schools, the wide array of available programs makes it challenging for schools to determine which programs are optimal for their student population. NCETA undertook a systematic review of school-based alcohol prevention programs with results published in two handy resources
NEWS - Beer, bongs and baby boomers: the unlikely tale of drug and alcohol use in the over 50s (Aug 2017)
NCETA in The Conversion: Beer, bongs and baby boomers: the unlikely tale of drug and alcohol use in the over 50s
NEWS - Booze and Baby Boomers: the new risk group (Sept 2019)
Booze and Baby Boomers: the new risk group Listen to Professor Ann Roche's interview with The Wire about concerns that risky alcohol consumption among older Australians.
NEWS - Congratulations Jacquie Bowden (Sept 2024)
Congratulations to Jacquie Bowden for receiving the prestigious Fellowship Award from the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA). This honour recognises her outstanding contributions to both the PHAA and the wider public health sector. With over 20 years in the public health workforce, Jacquie has been instrumental in advocating for and influencing policy and practice change across South Australia. She has also served as a mentor to many public health researchers and practitioners, further cementing her lasting impact on the field.
NEWS - Connections (June 2025)
The June edition of Connections (joint publication of AOD research centres) is now available at https://www.connections.edu.au/latest-edition showcasing our latest research, publications, news and events. National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC), National Drug Research Institute (NDRI), National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research (NCYSUR), National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction - NCETA
NEWS - Creating healthy workplaces: Reducing alcohol-related harm (March 2016)
This report presents findings of NCETA's Workplace Reduction of Alcohol-Related Harm Project (WRAHP). It details the positive impacts that NCETA's Changing Workplace Cultures Model has on employees' behaviour and wellbeing. The report was launched by VicHealth at their Creating Healthy Workplaces Forum on 23 March 2016.
NEWS - Drug and Alcohol Research Connections (Aug 2020)
Drug and Alcohol Research Connections is an online publication from Australia’s collaborative network of alcohol and other drug research centres: the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC), National Drug Research Institute (NDRI) and the National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction (NCETA). The latest edition is available now
NEWS - Drug and Alcohol Research Connections (June 2016)
Drug and Alcohol Research Connections is an online publication from Australia’s collaborative network of alcohol and other drug research centres: the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC), National Drug Research Institute (NDRI) and the National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction (NCETA). The latest edition is available now
NEWS - Employee Assistance Programs: A 50 year perspective (April 2016)
NCETA has won a competitive international grant to conduct a historical review of the development and evolution of Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) around the world from the 1960s through to the present time
NEWS - External Course: Monash Master of Addictive Behaviours (Oct 2014)
An online post-graduate degree in the science, policy, prevention and treatment of alcohol and drug misuse, gambling and other process addictions. Apply Now!
NEWS - Facilitator’s Guide to Using NCETA’s Online Ice Training in Face-to-Face Training (2016)
Facilitator’s Guide to Using NCETA’s Online Ice Training in Face-to-Face Training
NEWS - Feedback on NCETA Resource (Sept 2024)
We are delighted to recently receive feedback on our Opioid Agonist Therapy (OAT) in Australia book - that documents the contribution that OAT has made to public health and life of individuals in Australia. "I'd like to express my thanks for the incredibly thorough and useful history of OAT prescribing. This history has been extremely helpful in giving me a foundation of understanding. I really appreciated reading about the social, cultural, and economic dynamics that influence how policy and practice construct the prescribers, consumers, and drugs in question." You can find this resource here.
NEWS - Flinders University 50th Anniversary Celebrations (May 2016)
NCETA is celebrating its successful partnership with Flinders University by highlighting our pioneering research programs and quality, user-friendly resources
NEWS - Grey Matters Information Sheets (Dec 2014)
The Grey Matters Information Sheets aim to assist specialist and generalist health and welfare workers to better prevent, assess and respond to the needs of older people experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, alcohol and other drug (AOD) related harm
NEWS - Ice: Online Training for Frontline Workers - New Topic (March 2018)
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
NEWS - Ice: Training for Frontline Workers (Jan 2016)
Ice: Training for Frontline Workers was developed by NCETA as part of the Victorian Government’s Ice Action Plan. It is designed to meet the needs of a wide range of frontline workers including those from the health and welfare, education, criminal justice and transport sectors
NEWS - Ice: Training for Frontline Workers - New Topic (Feb 2017)
NCETA’s free online Ice: Training for Frontline Workers now includes a new Topic in Module 5. Topic 5.9 - Working in potentially risky environments.
NEWS - Methamphetamine Symposium Slides, Video Presentations, & Resources (May 2015)
The key methamphetamine resources, and PDFs and audio visual recordings of the speaker presentations from NCETA's Methamphetamine Symposium held in Melbourne on 12 May 2015 are now available
NEWS - Module 7 - Organisational responses (Aug 2016)
NCETA's ice online training for frontline workers - Module 7: Organisational responses now available.
NEWS - National Alcohol and Drug Knowledgebase (NADK): New Methamphetamine Section (Jan 2016)
A new Methamphetamine knowledge base has been launched today by NCETA. It contains up-to-date information and data, in the form of 80 frequently asked questions (FAQs), about Methamphetamine, including crystal methamphetamine (ice). It forms part of NCETA’s National Alcohol and Drug Knowledgebase
NEWS - NCETA Launches New Resource: Responding to Pharmaceutical Opioid-related Problems (Jan 2019)
Responding to Pharmaceutical Opioid-related Problems Resource Launch
NEWS - NCETA PhD student awarded VC's Prize for Doctoral Thesis Excellence (April 2015)
Dr Creina Stockley has been awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Prize for Doctoral Thesis Excellence
NEWS - NCETA Webinar Series (Oct 2020)
New insights on the AOD workforce: The AOD National Workforce Survey 2019-2020 Dr Natalie Skinner
NEWS - NCETA's 2025-28 Strategic Plan (Oct 2025)
On behalf of the NCETA Strategic Advisory Board and team, we are pleased to present the 2025-28 NCETA Strategic Plan.
NEWS - NCETA's Workplace Publications and Resources (Oct 2020)
NCETA's Workplace Publications and Resources Listing.
NEWS - NCETA’s new Director, Professor Jacqueline Bowden (Nov 2021)
We are delighted to announce NCETA’s new Director, Professor Jacqueline Bowden. Jacquie has a background in both psychology (BA Arts, Hons and PhD) and public health (Master of Public Health). Jacquie has been Deputy Director of the Health Policy Centre at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI). She has 20 years’ experience working in tobacco control, and she has managed South Australia’s Tobacco Control Research and Evaluation Program which informs all state policy, programs and interventions in tobacco control for the past 15 years. Over the past 10 years, Professor Bowden has broadened into the field of alcohol policy research where she now leads a program of research. She holds a National Health and Medical Research Council Fellowship to investigate messaging to reduce parental supply of alcohol to teenagers and is also leading an evaluation of a national campaign to raise awareness of the risks of drinking during pregnancy. We very much look forward to Jacquie joining us on 29 November 2021.
NEWS - New Report: Child and Family Sensitive Practice in the Alcohol and Other Drugs Sector (Aug 2014)
The Australian National Council on Drugs (ANCD) commissioned the National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction (NCETA) to examine policy frameworks that support or restrict the effective implementation of child and family sensitive practices in the alcohol and other drugs sector. This report presents findings from the audit, review, and stakeholder consultations.
NEWS - New staff at NCETA bring health behaviour change expertise (Feb 2022)
The National Centre for Education and Training on Addictions (NCETA) is growing, and we would like to introduce you to our new staff members Dr Ashlea Bartram, Christina Norris, and Nathan Harrison.
NEWS - New Workplace Project: Managing Drug and Alcohol Risk to Safety and Worker Wellbeing (May 2018)
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
NEWS - Preventing and Reducing Alcohol- and Other Drug-Related Harm among Older People: A practical guide for health and welfare professionals (Dec 2015)
The patterns and prevalence of alcohol and other drug use amongst older people is an emerging area of concern due to Australia's ageing population. This guide was developed by NCETA, in collaboration with Peninsula Health, Victoria, to assist specialist and generalist clinicians to assess and respond to the range of AOD-related harms impacting older people
NEWS - Professional Development Needs Assessment - Methamphetamine Treatment and Intervention (July 2015)
NCETA is conducting a workforce development needs assessment to explore the views and experiences of alcohol and other drug (AOD) treatment workers about the challenges involved in working with methamphetamine clients
NEWS - Professor Ann Roche Interviewed on ABC News (Aug 2017)
Professor Ann Roche's interview on the ABC about the increasing levels of substance use among Australian Baby Boomers.
NEWS - Professor Ann Roche Interviewed on ABC News (Aug 2017)
Professor Ann Roche's interview on the ABC about the increasing levels of substance use among Australian Baby Boomers.
NEWS - Round 4 NCCRED Seed Funding Grant Applications are open (Feb 2021)
Applications are now open for NCCRED's latest round of seed funding grants. The grants are designed to support innovative clinical research for the treatment of substance use disorder due to methamphetamine or emerging drugs of concern. For more information or to apply go to http://nccred.org.au/generate/nccred-clinical-research-seed-funding/
NEWS - Save the Date: NCETA Symposium 2025 (Sept 2024)
Save Thursday 15th May 2025 for NCETA's 2025 Symposium that will be delivered face to face and online. More information to be provided soon.
NEWS - Second edition of FundAssist out now (Sept 2024)
NCETA are pleased to announce that a revised version of FundAssist is now available to assist non-government AOD organisations to prepare, plan, and write successful grant applications.
NEWS - Seeking research participants: Client perspectives on undertaking AOD counselling via phone or video (July 2024)
Are you someone who has undergone alcohol and other drug (AOD) treatment counselling via phone or video and face-to-face within the past 12 months? We want to hear from you!
NEWS - Senior Research Fellow / Research Fellow position available (April 2025)
We have a position available for a Senior Research Fellow or Research Fellow if you know of anyone who might be interested? Applications close 27 April 2025. More information at https://flinders.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/flinders_employment/job/Bedford-Park--Kaurna-Country/Senior-Research-Fellow_JR0000013302-1
NEWS - Slots & Shots: Gambling Resources for AOD Workers (Nov 2015)
Slots and Shots is a much needed suite of gambling resource for alcohol and other drug workers. It contains a tri-fold client handout, waiting room poster, a report, and a wallet sized quick reference reminder for clinicians.
NEWS - Social Costs of Cannabis Use to Australia (Aug 2020)
Listen to Professor Ann Roche’s 2SER 107.3 radio interview to find out more about how cannabis use impacts workplace productivity and absenteeism.
NEWS - The Grey Matters National Conference - Speaker Presentations Available (April 2015)
On Wednesday 1 April 2015, the National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction (NCETA) held a national conference on identifying, preventing and responding to alcohol and other drug problems among older Australians. The conference was held at the Education Centre, 4 Milner St, Hindmarsh, Adelaide. The speaker presentations have now been uploaded
NEWS - The International Society of Addiction Journal Editors (ISAJE) announces the publication of the third edition of Publishing Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed (Aug 2017)
Publishing Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed
NEWS - The Results Are In! Insights From Australia’s First AOD Workforce Survey in Over 10 Years (Aug 2020)
The National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction (NCETA) is pleased to announce the launch of the AOD National Workforce Survey National Report.
NEWS - Vaping policies in Australian AOD Treatment Services (Sept 2025)
This resource details considerations for alcohol and other drug (AOD) treatment services in developing policies or approaches to address vaping
NEWS - Walking a Tightrope - Resource Launch (April 2014)
Walking a Tightrope is a comprehensive resource for people who have a family member who uses both alcohol and other drugs (AOD) and violence in their relationships. There will be three events associated with the launch of this resource. The resource will be launched on Monday 14 April 2014
NEWS - We need your perspective on the development of EAPs! (Aug 2016)
The National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction (NCETA) is conducting a review of the development of EAPs, from 1960 to the present, funded by the Employee Assistance Research Foundation.