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- AOD treatment services in Australia 2018 - 2019
- Baby boomers and booze: we should be worried about how older Australians are drinking
- Bimaltest
- Changes in sales of analgesics to pharmacies after codeine was rescheduled as a prescription only medicine
- Comorbid Mental Illness and Illicit Substance Use: Evidence Check
- Designing, implementing and evaluating the overdose response with take‐home naloxone model of care: An evaluation of client outcomes and perspectives
- Evaluation of an online injecting drug use stigma intervention targeted at health providers in NSW
- Flux Study Annual Report 2014-2017 Following Lives Undergoing Change
- Further evaluation of the Medically Supervised Injecting Centre during its extended Trial period (2007-2011)
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- Key findings from the ‘Australians’ Drug Use: Adapting to Pandemic Threats’ (ADAPT) Study
- Methamphetamine Use and Related Harms in NSW to December 2018
- National Drug Strategy Household Survey 2019
- National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program Tenth Report
- Needle Syringe Program National Minimum Data Collection Report 2019
- NSW Drug Trends 2019 - Key Findings from the Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting system
- NSW Drug Trends 2019 - Key Findings from the Illicit Drug Reporting system (IDRS) Interviews
- Report of the SWASH Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer Women’s Health Survey 2014, 2016, 2018
- Secondary school students' use of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs in 2017
- The deleterious effects of cannabis during pregnancy on neonatal outcomes
- Treatment outcomes for methamphetamine users receiving outpatient counselling from the Stimulant Treatment Program in Australia
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