As we come to the close of 2019, the SSAC team are busy finalising the major outputs of our ARC discovery project on men’s use of performance and image-enhancing drugs. Our recently completed technical report details the study’s findings on key themes, such as experiences of consumption, injecting practices and hepatitis C knowledge, and, where…
2019 workshop at the Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs (APSAD) conference: Tuesday 12 November, Grand Chancellor, Hobart, Tasmania. In early 2017 members of the SSAC team began work on an ARC Discovery project on take-home naloxone uptake in Australia. Entitled Understanding the impediments to uptake and diffusion of take-home naloxone in Australia,…
In 2017 the SSAC team began a research project funded by an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grant on men’s performance and image-enhancing drug (PIED) injecting. We conducted qualitative interviews with 60 men who inject PIEDs in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia. The project aimed to develop a balanced understanding of men’s…
New in our program of research is a project exploring experiences of people who continue to drink heavily while living with significant alcohol-related health problems. This South Western Sydney Local Health District-funded project will investigate how people who experience health difficulties associated with alcohol consumption give meaning to their consumption, manage health conditions and view,…
In recently conducted research, investigators have found that consumers of drug treatment and other health services in South Western Sydney experience stigma in a range of forms, and would benefit from more welcoming and supportive service. SSAC team members Professor Suzanne Fraser and Dr Adrian Farrugia are busy finalising the project report for this…
Along with participants from the US, Mexico, Canada and other parts of the world, SSAC program leader Suzanne Fraser and SSAC adjunct Kate Seear participated in May in an historic roundtable event, held in Vancouver by the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition. Entitled “Responding to Crisis: A Public Health and Human Rights Approach to the Legal…
Led by SSAC’s Renae Fomiatti and NDRI research associate Duane Duncan, the NDRI Melbourne Contemporary Social Theory (CST) group explores new resources for researching drugs. January’s reading group meeting looked at Kane Race ‘Complex events: Drug effects and emergent causality’. This piece was chosen as it offers an opportunity to expand thinking about key ideas…
Last week the SSAC team took part in the Dangerous Consumptions Colloquium, which was hosted this year by Monash University in Melbourne. Drawing on social, cultural and critical theory to discuss ‘dangerous’, ‘risky’ and contested consumptions, the annual colloquium runs over two days with a single stream of papers. This approach, along with mandated funding…
In 2017 SSAC began work on a research project exploring the health information needs of men who inject performance and image-enhancing drugs (PIEDs). Based on an Australian Research Council grant, the project aims to better understand who takes them, when, why and how, and to support effective, non-stigmatising resources for men who inject PIEDs. As…
To mark International Overdose Awareness Day 2018, the SSAC team hosted a discussion panel focusing on overdose: myths, assumptions and relevant concerns. Broadcast on 3CR and affiliated stations around the country, the panellists were Mr Sione Crawford, Executive Officer of Harm Reduction Victoria, Dr Nico Clark, Medical Director of Richmond’s new Medically Supervised Injecting Room,…
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