National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC)

19/12/2025

NDARC is now closed until Monday, 5 January 2026, during which time our social media accounts will not be monitored. From all of us at NDARC, we hope you have a relaxing end-of-year break. See you next year! 🎉👋🎁

17/12/2025

📹Catch up on the recent NDRI webinar “Methamphetamine use in Australia”, which featured NDARC’s Rebecca McKetin speaking about the evidence for treating use disorder.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hOCskJ4NAM

On Wednesday, 22 October at 2pm (AEDT), NDARC’s Professor Rebecca McKetin will take part in the National Drug Research Institute (NDRI)’s October webinar, “Methamphetamine use in Australia”. She will be providing a brief update on the evidence for treating methamphetamine use disorder, including progress towards pharmacotherapy options and innovations in other evidence-based treatment options.

Register here: 10114cc3-bacb-4cae-ba9c-a39e772c748e@5a740cd7-5768-4d09-ae13-f706b09fa22c" rel="ugc" target="_blank">https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/10114cc3-bacb-4cae-ba9c-a39e772c748e@5a740cd7-5768-4d09-ae13-f706b09fa22c

16/12/2025

New blog post! 🆕📣📝 ⭐This year’s award-winning posters at our Annual Research Symposium explored two emerging public health challenges: national hospitalisation trends and the link between use and . We spoke to winners Agata Chrzanowska and Lucy Tran to find out more.

👀Full story: https://www.unsw.edu.au/research/ndarc/news-events/blogs/2025/11/poster-winners-shine-2025-NDARC-Research-Symposium

15/12/2025

11/12/2025

As the year comes to an end, we take a moment to reflect on our activity and achievements over the last 12 months. 🎉

Read more 👉https://www.unsw.edu.au/research/ndarc/news-events/blogs/2025/11/NDARC-2025-year-in-review

11/12/2025

The Australian Ketamine Survey aims to better understand how people use K, why they use K and how using K has affected them, in order to improve consumer health and inform harm reduction.

Find out more: https://redcap.link/CompletetheAustralianKetamineSurvey

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10/12/2025

NDARC's Prof Julia Lappin spoke to Australian Doctor about her latest study on su***de deaths among women who were on menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) when they died. She concluded that MHT was unlikely to be a causal factor for su***de.

Read more here: https://www.ausdoc.com.au/news/su***de-deaths-show-menopause-can-trigger-midlife-mental-health-crisis-neuropsychiatrist/

Find the full study here: https://www.maturitas.org/article/S0378-5122%2825%2900592-4/fulltext

Menopausal hormone therapy is unlikely to be a standalone trigger, Professor Julia Lappin says.

07/12/2025

The NDARC Webinar Series has wrapped up for 2025 and will return in February 2026.

Want to catch up on any of our previous webinars? 📹 Find them here: https://www.unsw.edu.au/research/ndarc/resources %20Category=f.Resource%20Category%7Cndarccategories%3DNDARC%2BWebinars&page=1

04/12/2025

💊📊New Drug Trends jurisdictional reports are now available on our website, showcasing key findings from both the Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System (EDRS) and the Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS) interviews.
Find out more: https://www.unsw.edu.au/research/ndarc/resources

04/12/2025

New blog post! 📣 Members of NDARC’s Drug Trends team share insights and the research highlights from this year’s conference.

👉 Read more:

The 2025 Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs (APSAD) Conference, held in Sydney, brought together leading researchers, practitioners, and policymakers from across Australia and beyond to share the latest evidence and innovations in alcohol and other drug research.

02/12/2025

NDARC’s Michael Farrell, Louisa Degenhardt and Thomas James S. are taking part in the Australasian Justice Health Network webinar this Friday, 5 December at 12pm (AEDT). In it, they will share preliminary findings on health and justice outcomes after release from incarceration in New South Wales.

Join here: https://tinyurl.com/AJHN2025

More details: https://www.justicehealthgroup.org/webinars

26/11/2025

Did you miss last week’s NDARC Webinar with Dr Megan Cook and Dr Sarah Callinan on gender in alcohol research?

📹Watch the recording here: https://www.unsw.edu.au/research/ndarc/resources/examining-gender-in-alcohol-research