Fact Sheets - Alcohol & Other Drugs

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People

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders

• Resources for workers in the drug and alcohol field who work with Indigenous communities
• The Indigenous Dual Diagnosis Project

Alcohol and other drug workers

• AOD sector terminology
• Building cultural competency in the alcohol and other drug sector
• Building resilience and social capital in rural and remote communities
• Creating effective partnerships: issues and considerations
• Including parents in treatment
• Making treatment services and prevention programs accessible for culturally and linguistically diverse clients
• The stepped care model: a useful intervention for people who use methamphetamine

Children

• Supporting the children of people who misuse alcohol and other drugs

Culturally and linguistically diverse communities

• Alcohol and other drug-related services for people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities
• Alcohol, other drugs and your teenager
• Building cultural competency in the alcohol and other drug (AOD) sector
• Making treatment services and prevention programs accessible for culturally and linguistically diverse clients

Parents

• Alcohol and other drug prevention in the family
• Alcohol promotion and young people
• Alcohol, other drugs and your teenager
• Cannabis use and mental health: the facts
• Cannabis use and young people: the facts
• Hosting teenage parties

• How parents can influence teenage drinking
• Pregnancy and alcohol
• Pregnancy, alcohol and other drugs
• Talking with your teenager about alcohol
• Teenagers and alcohol: a quick guide for parents
• Teenagers and illegal drugs: a quick guide for parents
• What is "secondary supply"?
• What you can do if a family member is using methamphetamine or other drugs
• Young people and alcohol

People with mental health issues

• What is dual diagnosis?

Rural and remote communities

• Building resilience and social capital in rural and remote communities

Young people

• 5 facts about the effects of alcohol on young people
• Alcohol promotion and young people
• Staying safe on the roads: tips for young people

Settings

Communities

• Planning effective alcohol and other drug prevention strategies in the community

Driving

• Medications and safe driving
• Talking with clients about drugs and driving
• The facts about roadside drug testing
• Staying safe on the roads: tips for young people

Parties and celebrations

• Drink spiking
• Hosting teenage parties
• Safe partying for all ages

Sporting clubs

• Alcohol: a performance impairing drug

• Developing an alcohol policy for a sporting club
• Developing safer and healthier communities: the Good Sports program
• End of season events: reducing the risks for sporting clubs
• Sponsorship and fundraising: alternatives to alcohol
• Working together to reduce the impact of alcohol in sporting clubs

Workplaces

• Alcohol and the workplace: the rights and responsibilities of employees

• Alcohol and the workplace: the rights and responsibilities of employers
• Methamphetamine and the workplace
• Reducing the risk of alcohol problems in the workplace

Drugs

Alcohol

• Alcohol: a performance impairing drug
• Alcohol promotion and young people
• Australian guidelines for low-risk drinking
• Drink spiking
• Pregnancy and alcohol
• Reducing the risk of alcohol problems in the workplace
• Talking with your teenager about alcohol
• The facts about binge drinking
• What is 'secondary supply'?
• What is a standard drink?
• Young people and alcohol

Caffeine

• Energy drinks: do they really give you wings?

Cannabis

• Cannabis use and mental health: the facts
• Cannabis use and young people: the facts

Inhalants

• The facts on inhalants

Khat

• Khat

Medicines

• Dealing with anxiety without medication

• Getting a good night's sleep without medication
• Medications and safe driving
• Reducing harms from pharmaceutical misuse
• Using medicines safely

Methamphetamines

• 'Ice' (crystal methamphetamine hydrochloride)
• Methamphetamine and the workplace
• Methamphetamine and your body
• The stepped care model: a useful intervention for people who use methamphetamine
• What you can do if a family member is using methamphetamine or other drugs

Naloxone

• Naloxone

Synthetic cannabinoids

• Synthetic cannabinoids

Last updated: 22 March 2013