Welcome

9:00 - 9:15 AM 

Director's Welcome & Welcome to Country

Professor Michael Farrell
Director, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) at UNSW

Aunty Maxine Ryan

The National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC), UNSW Sydney hosted 'The 2023 NDARC Annual Research Symposium on Friday, 27 October, showcasing the foremost research in the alcohol and other drugs sector and related fields

Plenary One: Trends in substance use/drug monitoring systems

9:15 - 9:45 AM 

Learning from the past, responding to the present, and being better prepared for the future: How changing information needs are reflected in the new framework for drugs monitoring within the EU.

Professor Paul Griffiths
Scientific Director, European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA)

9:45 – 10.00AM

Emerging trends in drug use, harms, and markets: Findings from Drug Trends 2023

Dr Rachel Sutherland
Senior Research Fellow, NDARC

10:15-10:25

Q and A

Dr Rachel Sutherland
Senior Research Fellow, NDARC

Associate Professor Amy Peacock
Associate Professor, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) at UNSW , Adjunct Researcher in the School of Medicine, University of Tasmania

Professor Paul Griffiths
Scientific Director, European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA)

Poster Presentations 

10:25 - 10:40 AM
Poster presentations

• Jane Akhurst: Engagement with drug alerts among people who use drugs in Australia: Awareness of and responses to current alerts, and preferences for future alerts.
• Olivia Price: Sexual behaviour and sexually transmitted infections among people who inject drugs: a systematic review.
• Bethany Grice: E-cigarette Use among Australian Women of Reproductive Age
• Baillee Farah: ‘Kicked out’: The lived experiences of Sydney’s nightlife eviction policies

11:00 - 11:15

Poster presentations: 

• Wing See Yuen: Alcohol-related behaviours, beliefs, and knowledge regarding cancer risk related to alcohol in the New South Wales LGBTQ+ community.
• Emily Deans: Feasibility and acceptability of a psychoeducation program for clients with complex support needs’
• Toni Karlsson: Experiences of stigma whilst visiting healthcare services among two sentinel samples of people who use drugs in Australia, 2022-2023
• Liam Acheson: Participant experiences in a pilot study for methamphetamine withdrawal treatment: implications for retention

Breakout sessions

1:30 - 2:30 pm

Breakout One: Co-designed projects/partnerships Session
Chair: Associate Professor Rob Stirling

Dr Peter Gates
Community-wide alcohol and other drug intervention with Norfolk Island.
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Dr Wing See Yuen
11 years of the Australian Parental Supply of Alcohol Longitudinal Study.

Breakout Two: Illicit Drug use and treatment Session
Chair: Associate Professor Steve MacGillivray

Chrianna Bharat
Agreement between self-reported illicit drug use and biological samples: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Paige Webb
Global patterns of drug use among people who inject drugs.

Thomas Santo Jr
Prevalence of comorbid substance use disorders among people with opioid use disorder: A Systematic Review and Metaanalysis.

Kendal Chidwick
National Trends in the Australian Opioid Agonist Treatment Program, 2013 to 2022.

Breakout Three: Contemporary Issues
Session Chair: Professor Paul Dietze

Lucy Tran
The prevalence of gambling, associated harms and intervention engagement: A global systematic review.

Rebecca McKetin:
Integrating contingency management for methamphetamine use into routine clinical care in Australia.

Plenary three

2.50 – 3.05 PM 

Poster presentations

• Tayla Degan: An overview of reviews of the evidence for substance use interventions
• Brodie Clark: Buprenorphine versus methadone for the treatment of opioid dependence: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised and observational studies
• Rebecca McKetin: The TINA Trial: Progress on phase III randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial of mirtazapine as a pharmacotherapy for methamphetamine (“ice”) dependence
• Amelia Woods: Extended-Release Pharmacotherapies for Substance Use Disorders in Incarcerated Populations: A Systematic Review

3.05 – 3.35 PM

Keynote: How commerce determines our health: why we need to speak the languages of finance, marketing, and politics

Professor Rob Moodie
Professor of Public Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne

3:35 –  4:10 PM 
Vapourised nicotine products: Balancing the public health risks and benefits

Professor Hayden McRobbie
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC), at UNSW

4.10 – 4.25 pm

Q and A

Alys Havard
Senior Research Fellow, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC), at UNSW

Professor Hayden McRobbie
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC), at UNSW

Professor Rob Moodie
Professor of Public Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne

Announcement of poster winner and final remarks

4.25 - 4.30 PM