It's hard to get an accurate picture of how the pandemic has influenced drug use, but initial data suggests treatment services are reporting increased demand.
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Right now, you're living in a kind of industrial revolution – where biotechnology, information technology, manufacturing and automation all come together to form synthetic biology.
Many more women probably use drugs than official figures suggest. And they certainly face more harms.
Shalom House calls itself the 'strictest drug rehabilitation centre in the country' but evidence of its so-called success is anecdotal at best.
Drug use is down – but that's a long way from the whole story.
Trials into the effectiveness of drugs and treatments struggle to recruit enough participants, yet we rely on their results anyway.
Around 2.3% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians 15 years and over report using speed or amphetamine in the past year. This is similar to the general population.
I conducted interviews with 26 young women in alcohol and drug treatment services in Victoria. More than half of them disclosed a history of sexual abuse and 20 spoke about cutting themselves.
Hoping to avoid the pitfalls and tropes of drug genre photography, documentary photographer Aaron Goodman spent a year following three addicts enrolled in a heroin-assisted treatment program.
The ice taskforce's report sends a clear message about the importance of focusing on drug use as a health issue. This signals an important shift in thinking.
Stigma toward heroin use might prevent a lot of people from using the drug, but these attitudes don't help people who are dependent.
There is no evidence to suggest mandatory treatment outside of the criminal justice system would work. Instead, we need to increase funding for treatment programs, including early intervention.
HIV therapy that enables patients with the virus to live a healthy life is a great success for modern medicine. But what are the challenges to coming up with a complete cure?
There's a worrying lack of evidence for what works when it comes to drug treatment. And our addiction services are suffering as a result.
There is hope that new drugs can be created to treat anxiety disorders after seven new genes were linked to these diseases.
Not only can they improve public health and decrease treatment costs, but they can also address one of the root causes of addiction: loneliness.
You would be forgiven for thinking that Russell Brand, that radical left-winger and advocate of revolution, and Iain Duncan Smith, Conservative secretary of state for work and pensions, didn’t have anything…
In the 1930s, Harry J. Anslinger, the first head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, embarked on a fierce anti-marijuana campaign. Highlighted by the 1936 anti-marijuana film Reefer Madness – where marijuana…
Drugs widely used to treat asthma and pneumonia can become ineffective because they work with the lung cells’ body clock…
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Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne), Curtin University
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Associate Professor of Addiction, University of York
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Bentley University
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Senior Lecturer & Program Manager - Youth Work and Youth Studies. School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer of Addiction, Edith Cowan University
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Hon. Professor Drug Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Associate Professor of Population Health, New York University Langone Medical Center
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Lecturer and Researcher, Department of Genetics; & SU/ UCT MRC Unit on Risk and Resilience in Mental Disorders, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Virology & Infectious Diseases, University of Liverpool
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Faculty, Journalism and Communication Studies, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
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Lecturer in Crimimology and Social Policy, University of Birmingham
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