Great paper by Louisa Picco (Monash Addiction Research Centre) in International Journal of Drug Policy: pharmacists decision making & prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMP): PDMP alerts influenced opioids supply much more than other known clinical risk factors. FREE for 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/a/1fnhi3PEroZG…

Huge congrats to Monash Addiction Research Centre's incredible Krista Crawford for her Dean's award! She keeps our ship together! #MonashUniversity

The 17th Annual Graduate Research Symposium is coming up this Wednesday! Here are our final 2 amazing sponsors: APSA & ASCEPT

Here are our Poster Presenters for the #HDRSym2022, here are our Session 2B students who will be presenting between 1:10PM-1:50PM in Cossar Hall tomorrow! [Part 2]

Let's welcome our next presenter, Sankar!

Congrats CMUS PhD candidate George Tan and a fascinating presentation for harnessing real world data and to understand drug disease relationships and improve the level of evidence in informing practice.

Laura Dowd is our next presenter in Session 3!!

CMUS PhD students and #womeninSTEM Monica Jung, Stella Kim, and LouiseLord presenting their posters at today’s Parkville Postgrad Association event.

SO exciting to be at our Drug&AlcoholReview Monash Addiction Research Centre event on science communication with A/Prof Jen Martin @scidocmartin.bsky.social .. highlighting how we have a responsibility to communicate our work to the general public. Science can be elitist, and there is a lot of misinformation. We need to do better!

The OPPICO trial will evaluate the impact of policies on opioid prescribing; and opioid prescribing guideline recommendations on specific conditions such as migraines and musculoskeletal conditions. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I made a solid start checking out posters at #auspainsoc 2023 conference ... some fab posters on sleep, opioid tapering and gabapentinoids! So much great work incl by PhD superstars Amy McNeilage and Monica Jung

Great presentation by CMUS PhD student Monica Jung at the Monash Addiction Research Centre Symposium 👏

Great poster and rapid presentation on #opioid tapering by Monica Jung at Monash Addiction Research Centre symposium today. CMUS Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Congratulations to MARC/CMUS PhD candidate Monica Jung who is a finalist in this year's Visualise Your Thesis competition. Check out her 1-min video on Safe and effective #opioids doi.org/10.26180/23695… Monash University CMUS Monash Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Amazing collection of posters presented by CMUS, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash Addiction Research Centre PhD students Monica Jung, Miriam Leung and Stella Kim at #icpe2023 in beautiful Halifax!

Our latest #international #agedcare #research: doi.org/10.1007/s40520… 🇬🇸 #Australia: Ratio of symptomatic to preventive #medication use was higher with #frailty but lower with #age 🇯🇵 #Japan: Ratio remained consistent across #age & #frailty groups

Over 90% of #frail #nursinghome residents in 🇦🇺🇨🇳🇯🇵🇪🇸 who were most vulnerable to medication #sideeffects were prescribed #medications that may cause harm based on the #STOPPFrail criteria It's time to consider #deprescribing to optimise #medicationuse 🔖bit.ly/frailnh

Led by Monica Jung , researchers from Monash Addiction Research Centre & Monash Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences have completed Australia’s most detailed analysis of #opioid #tapering trajectories to date, with some findings that contradict current guidelines Read in #MonashLens: tinyurl.com/mvvmh4nz

🧠Our 10-yr pre/post-#Alzheimer's disease study on medication use: bit.ly/medalz 💊While #symptomatic meds plateaued post-diagnosis for both AD & non-AD cohorts, #preventive meds declined in the AD cohort but continued to increase in the non-AD cohort. #deprescribing