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Information and communication technologies in reducing alcohol and other drug-related harms

DrugInfo newsletter, August 2011.

People are using drugs in an environment saturated with information and communication technologies (ICT). What are the challenges and opportunities that this context presents to the alcohol and other drug (AOD) sector?

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Contents

Providing new options for improving wellbeing:The role of online interventions
Associate Professor Jane Burns, CEO Cooperative Research Centre for Young People, Technology and Wellbeing and Ms Michelle Blanchard, Acting Manager, Communications and Partnerships, Cooperative Research Centre for Young People, Technology and Wellbeing, Victoria.

Drugs and information and communication technologies
Guest editorial by Monica Barratt, Research Fellow, National Drug Research Institute, Western Australia 

A historical perspective on social media
Chris Raine, CEO and Founder, Hello Sunday Morning, Queensland

The place of ”new” technologies in alcohol and other drug treatment
Dr Nicole Lee, Associate Professor, National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction, Flinders University, South Australia, and Director, LeeJenn Health Consultants, Victoria

The internet and the emergence of new drugs
Cameron Francis, Social Worker, Dovetail, Queensland

Using web-based assessment to expand the reach of brief alcohol intervention
Jonathan Hallett, PhD candidate, Western Australian Centre for Health Promotion Research, School of Public Health, Curtin University, Western Australia; Professor Peter Howat, WACHPR and Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer Control, Curtin University; Professor Alexandra McManus, Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Curtin University; Professor Bruce Maycock, WACHPR, Curtin University; Associate Professor Kyp Kypri, University of Newcastle, New South Wales

Creating a DIY social network:Heads together
Ray Stephens, Manager Online Programs Education, Communication and Workforce Development, UnitingCare Moreland Hall, Victoria

 

Last updated: 16 August 2011
 
 

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