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Loneliness and drinking are often talked about as if one must drive the other. A new Australian study suggests the picture is far less tidy. Researchers from the University of Sydney and UNSW Sydney followed...
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Police are recording more sexual assaults and family violence against Australian children than they did a decade ago. The sharpest rises have come since 2021. That is the headline finding of a national study published...
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Police are recording more sexual assaults and family violence against Australian children than they did a decade ago. The sharpest rises have come since 2021. That is the headline finding of a national study published...
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Moderate drinking and the brain make an uneasy pairing once the scanners get involved. Researchers have put “moderate” drinkers into imaging machines, and the pictures look far less harmless than the label promises. Moderate Drinking...
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Moderate drinking and the brain make an uneasy pairing once the scanners get involved. Researchers have put “moderate” drinkers into imaging machines, and the pictures look far less harmless than the label promises. Moderate Drinking...
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Workplace deaths in Australia hit 222 in 2025, the largest yearly toll since 2012. Each one was a person who went to work and did not come home. Meanwhile, the nation’s wastewater is telling a...
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A new national study of MDMA deaths has put hard numbers on an awkward point for drug checking. Much of the risk sits outside the pill, in the body that takes it and in everything...
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ACT paramedics attended nearly 4000 callouts linked to alcohol and drugs in a single year, the latest ambulance surveillance data shows. Australia’s Annual Overdose Report 2026, published by the Penington Institute, also counted 28 unintentional...
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The Australian methamphetamine problem has reached levels that no national monitoring system has recorded before. The National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) at UNSW Sydney released its September 2026 bulletin (Chrzanowska et al., 2026)....
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A driver eats a cannabis gummy, waits a while, gets behind the wheel and returns a low THC reading. Surely that settles it? A new randomised trial says it does not. Cannabis edibles and driving...
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South Australia has passed tough new alcohol delivery laws. It is the first state in the country to do this. As a result, campaigners are calling it a genuine turning point for women and children....
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A major parliamentary inquiry into the health impacts of alcohol and other drugs in Australia has come down firmly on one side of a long running debate. Its recommendations put prevention over harm reduction as...
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The oral fluid THC test can flag recent THC use in a driver with high accuracy. But it cannot say how much THC sits in the blood. That is the verdict of a Columbia University...
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Recommendations For National Drug Strategy 2027–2036: A Prevention & Recovery Framework (Building Safer, Healthier and more Resilient Communities)Australia stands at a crossroads. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s World DrugReport 2025 confirms what...
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The Australian Federal Police’s (AFP) record makes one point difficult to dismiss: illicit drug markets are not victimless lifestyle choices. They are a major revenue stream for transnational organised crime, impose serious social, as well...
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New research has confirmed what many carers and clinicians have long suspected. Youth in foster care who live with a mental health diagnosis are far more likely to misuse alcohol, cannabis or nicotine than their...
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A new book argues that tobacco companies wrote the original addictive drug industry playbook. It claims the marijuana industry has quietly copied that playbook, strategy for strategy. The book is Marketing Pleasure: How Addictive Drug...
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Every alert issued by Australia’s drug early warning networks starts with the same uncomfortable fact. Someone has already taken a substance nobody could be certain about. New research published in the International Journal of Drug Policy examines...
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Gen Z alcohol consumption is rising fast. For years, alcohol policy leaned on harm minimisation. It taught young people how to drink safely. It rarely encouraged them to delay drinking altogether. The new data suggests...
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Childhoods marked by neglect, abuse or upheaval leave marks that can last well beyond the years they happened. A large new review of research confirms just how far those marks can reach. It links adverse...
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New research suggests that childhood trauma carried by fathers long before their own children were even born may still be shaping how those children behave today. A study tracking hundreds of American families has found...
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Drug checking services have quietly become one of the most accepted tools in how society now handles illegal drug use. A sample goes in. A result comes out. Somewhere in that exchange, a seller learns...
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Alcohol-related liver disease is climbing fast. In the United States, the death rate nearly doubled between 1999 and 2022, rising from 6.7 to 12.5 per 100,000 people. Researchers linked more than 436,000 deaths to this...
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Ask someone why they can’t put their phone down and they’ll probably laugh it off. Ask them why they can’t cut back on drinking, and the conversation gets heavier fast. Both answers start in the...
