This year, DruGS Program Lead Dr Adrian Farrugia has been pleased to take up invitations to present keynote addresses at two conferences. The first, the Association of Alcohol and Other Drug Agencies Northern Territory annual conference was held in Darwin, Australia and the second, the Contemporary Drug Problems biennial conference was held in Manchester, UK.…
The DruGS team recently completed a professional consultation conducted on efforts to address young people’s use of e-cigarettes or vaping. Debate continues on how to balance the harm reduction potential of e-cigarettes against concerns about their potential risks. Key concerns include the acute harms of vaping and its potential to ‘normalise’ nicotine consumption, including smoking.…
A new article by DruGS team members Gemma Nourse, David Moore and Suzanne Fraser examines health professional understandings of performance and image-enhancing drugs (PIEDs) in Australia. The article has been developed from Gemma’s PhD thesis, supervised by Suzanne and David, which examined what it means to be a man who consumes PIEDs, a practice commonly pathologised…
The DruGS team’s newly published report finds that more direct engagement with gender, and particularly masculinities, should be central to future efforts to address alcohol and violence. Importantly, the report offers several recommendations for how research and policy on alcohol and violence can more effectively attend to gender. You can find a copy of the…
Following the recent retirements of Professor Suzanne Fraser (former DruGS Program Lead) and Professor David Moore (former DruGS Professorial Fellow), longtime DruGS team member Dr Adrian Farrugia has been announced as the new Program Lead. Aiming to continue their highly influential careers conducting theoretically innovative and empirically robust research on alcohol and other drugs and…
The DruGS team is currently working on an innovative new project funded by the Commonwealth Department of Health that explores understandings of stigma and stigma reduction in blood-borne virus (BBV) and sexually transmissible infection (STI) related healthcare. Reducing stigma is vitally important to improve lives and deliver equitable access for all, yet despite many years…
In a new article published in Qualitative Health Research, DruGS program members Adrian Farrugia and David Moore – in collaboration with colleagues Helen Keane, Mats Ekendahl, Kate Graham and Duane Duncan – analyse how alcohol policy stakeholders understand the relationship between men, masculinities, alcohol and violence. Building on recent publications from the project, the article…
A new article, led by DruGS program member David Moore, reports findings from an international comparative research project on gender, alcohol and violence. The article, entitled ‘Gendering practices in quantitative research on alcohol and violence: Comparing research from Australia, Canada and Sweden’, analyses the treatment of gender in Canadian and Swedish quantitative research on alcohol…
In 2021 the DruGS team conducted an Australian Government Department of Health-funded qualitative study on telehealth treatment for hepatitis C during the COVID-19 pandemic. The final report from the project has just been launched via webinar, and featured presentations on the findings and recommendations and a panel discussion spanning harm reduction and peer support, advocacy…
Marked annually on July 28, World Hepatitis Day is one of the World Health Organization’s seven global public health days. In an effort to convey the urgency of the current global goal to eliminate hepatitis C by 2030, the theme of this year’s World Hepatitis Day is Hep Can’t Wait. As the event’s website puts…
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