People Against Drink Driving

DRIVING while hungover may be as dangerous as getting behind the wheel when drunk.  But in a frightening twist, you’re not likely to care about your shoddy driving skills the day after a night on the grog.  New Australian research into the cause and effects of hangovers also shows how sick you feel the day […]

by National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre In the first Australian study of its kind, 559 cannabis-related deaths identified between 2000 and 2018 have been examined by researchers at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC), UNSW Sydney. The leading cause of death was accidental injury (30 percent), followed by suicide (25 percent), and polysubstance toxicity

Adolescent Brain Development: WEBINAR – Ken C. Winters (Ph.D. is a Senior Scientist at the Oregon Research Institute )

Lebanese were in mourning in both Beirut and nearly 9,000 miles away in Sydney, Australia, after a horrific car crash claimed the lives of four Lebanese-Australian children on Saturday night. An alleged drunk driver lost control of his vehicle in the Sydney suburb of Oatlands, ploughing into a group of seven children. They had been riding their bikes along

December 11, 2019 Press releases The European Union should introduce a zero-tolerance drink-driving limit in 2020 as part of a package of measures to help prevent up to 5,000 alcohol-linked road deaths every year, according to the European Transport Safety Council, authors of a new report. The EU has recently set a target to reduce deaths

More Queenslanders will have to pass breath tests on devices in their cars before they can drive them under new laws designed to reduce deaths on the roads. The laws expand an alcohol interlock program that requires sentenced drink-drivers to unlock their cars by passing a breath test on an attached device. The program will

August 28, 2019  Alcohol is still a factor in about a quarter of traffic deaths in Queensland, research has found. QUT’s Centre of Accident Research and Road Safety – Queensland (CARRS-Q) analysed the database of Queensland road crashes from 1981 to 2017.  They found about 25 per cent of drivers and riders killed on the

About 70 percent of those who engage in simultaneous alcohol and marijuana use reported simultaneous use at least weekly A new study from Penn State found that compared to people who only drank alcohol, those who used alcohol and marijuana simultaneously were more likely to drink heavier and more often. They were also more likely

The NRMA-owned Manly Fast Ferry has confirmed it stood some deckhands down after they tested “non-negative” for illicit drugs on Monday, as revealed by the Herald’s CBD column on Friday. With fewer staff available, the NRMA said it had been forced to reduce the frequency of some of its tourist services that travel between stops including Taronga Zoo and