Illicit drugs

Programs and publications addressing the use of illicit drugs.

Programs

• The Non Government Organisation Treatment Grants Program which funds non-government drug treatment services across Australia to increase the number of treatment places and improve treatment for people with drug and alcohol problems. Organisations currently funded under round 3 of the Non-Government Organisations Treatment Grants Program.
• The COAG Mental Health Improved Services Initiative funds alcohol and other drug (AOD) services to build their capacity to manage and treat people with co-occurring AOD problems and mental illness (comorbidity).
• The National Psychostimulants Initiative which focuses on addressing the problems caused by the increased availability and use of psychostimulants.
• Supporting measures for Needle and Syringe Programs (NSPs), comprising two streams:
  • increased education, counselling and referral services provided through community based programs and
  • diversification of NSPs (ie increase the accessibility of NSPs through pharmacies and other outlets and provide information and training support.

Related publications

• Comorbidity treatment service model evaluation: final report August 2009
• Guidelines on the management of co-occurring alcohol and other drug and mental health conditions in alcohol and other drug treatment settings - a practical guide for alcohol and other drug (AOD) workers in the management of a range of mental health conditions in AOD treatment settings.
• Models of intervention and care for psychostimulant users - monograph series no 51
• Management of patients with psychostimulant use problems: guidelines for general practitioners
• Psychostimulants - management of acute behavioural disturbances guidelines for police services
• Management of patients with psychostimulant toxicity: guidelines for emergency departments
• Management of patients with psychostimulant toxicity: guidelines for ambulance services
• A brief cognitive behavioural intervention for regular amphetamine users - a treatment guide
• A review of enablers and barriers of Indigenous drug users accessing needle and syringe programs – a report for the COAG Multilateral Group on Needle and Syringe Programs
• Clinical guidelines and procedures for the use of methadone in the maintenance treatment of opioid dependence
  • Full report
  • Abbreviated version
• Review of methadone treatment in Australia
• Comorbid mental disorders and substance use disorders: epidemiology, prevention and treatment
• Sniffing
  • Sniffing and the brain
  • When boys and men sniff
  • When girls and women sniff
• Training frontline workers: young people, alcohol and other drugs
• Volatile substance misuse: a review of interventions: monograph series no. 65

Page last reviewed: 24 March 2010