🚨New paper🚨 Centering authors' responsibility to engage w/ people who use drugs & respect their preferences, we argue using people-first strengths-based & inclusive language with care breaks down #DrugStigma & builds equitable values policies & practices bit.ly/3T7snh2

Dangerous Consumptions 20th year! Rego here: monash.edu/medicine/news/… For those who take a cultural & critical social approach to a range of health topics. Submit abstracts to [email protected]

If you’re at least 18 years old and residing in Australia, participate in this interesting study looking at experiences of intoxication and crime!

If you know any young people interested in how alcohol impacts their physical and mental health please send them our way curtin.edu.au/engage/local-c…

Join us *online* on the 11th of October at 4pm for our next seminar with Dr Kasun Rathnayake from Burnet Institute . He will be presenting on trends in the price-adjusted purity of methamphetamine and heroin price in Melbourne between 2009 and 2020.

Alcohol-related harm is a substantial issue in the Northern Territory. The NDRI Curtin October webinar will showcase the perspectives of experts on the ongoing challenges reducing, measuring, and regulating alcohol-related harm in the Territory. Details here: ndri.curtin.edu.au/news-events/nd…

Here's something that @cassjcw coordinated brilliantly - more on the proposed changes to NT alcohol laws: theconversation.com/cheap-grog-new…

Very sad I can't be at A.P.S.A.D this year, but this was such a lovely surprise! 😊

NEXT FRIDAY Nov 8th 4pm: Join us for our final VSURF of the year! The wonderful Dr Ruby Grant from ARCSHS is presenting her qual work on the gendered meanings of alcohol consumption among LBQ women. Online or in person, more details here: …bstanceuseresearchforum.wordpress.com

Come work for us! New 12 month Research Officer role just opened. Details here: external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/5282…

Tomorrow: join us for the final VSURF of 2024! Dr Ruby Grant from ARCSHS is presenting her work on the gendered meanings of alcohol consumption amoung LBQ women. Online or in-person at La Trobe city campus, followed by drinks nearby. Details: …bstanceuseresearchforum.wordpress.com

HIV Futures — Australia’s longest running survey of health and wellbeing among people living with HIV — is now open! If you are eligible to participate we would love the hear from you. We would also greatly appreciate people sharing widely. hivfutures.org.au

We wrote a book! Everything we learned over six years of work on the decline in youth drinking in the UK, Australia, Sweden and Finland. taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.…

In our latest blog, Dr Gabriel Caluzzi explores how midlife women’s drinking is shaped by work pressures, caregiving demands, & class. Moving beyond the ‘wine mum’ stereotype, he highlights the need for a deeper understanding of these influences La Trobe University ias.org.uk/2024/12/18/bey…

Local environments, accessibility & affordability: A qualitative analysis of alcohol purchasing across different socio-economic areas in Victoria Gabriel Caluzzi Klaudia Kepa Alex Torney Michael Livingston Yvette Mojica-Perez Nic Taylor Sarah Callinan, Amy Pennay onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/da…

Editorial - #Gender Differences in #Alcohol Research: A Focus on How Men and Women Are Studied in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand Megan Cook, Amy Pennay, Sarah MacLean Gabriel Caluzzi, Benjamin Riordan, amanda cooklin, Alexandra Torney, Sarah Callinan onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/da…

A new book explores why young people in high-income countries are drinking less, linking the decline to growing health consciousness, closer parental relationships, and a broader culture of caution. In our latest blog, the authors discuss the findings. ias.org.uk/2025/05/28/you…

Why is youth drinking in decline? Listen to our latest podcast to hear why it's far more than any one cause, and needs to be understood from a much broader sociological position of generational change. Ft. John Holmes and Amy Pennay Listen here: ias.org.uk/podcast/why-ar…