Addictive Behaviours and Mental Health Research Sharing Page

Your teen playing too much games? UQ and RAQ are bringing parents together to shape a new toolkit that supoorts families. Your voice matters. Express your interest to contribute here:

https://buff.ly/nSZHHA0

Excited to get ethics approval for involving parents to design the Good Gaming toolkit with our partner, Relationship Australia QLD, for recognising, starting conversations, and seeking help for problem video gaming behaviours with teens. Recruitment is next! 🥳🎮👾🕹️📒

Thank you Angel Parsons ABC Triple J Hack for chatting with me on radio about the risk of psychosis and cannabis use to your youth listeners, such an important topic to cover given the rapid changes in cannabis policies and laws.

Super proud of our PhD graduates!!!

Wonderful to visit Daniela Vecchio, Maliththa Muwanwella, Nadia Tam, Damien Turner, Wai Chen with Gary CK Chan at The Gaming Clinic.
We are looking forward to joining forces with our shared passion and goal of preventing negative impacts of gaming and screens on families.

Cannabis use is prevalent in Australia, but public health is most concerned about high-risk use. Our examined individuals meeting criteria for high-risk cannabis use and identifying its correlates in a representative Australian dataset.

https://buff.ly/FcaDCIn

Amazing day of research on drug policies and their impact on different populations at today. We are ready for tomorrow!

Reflecting on policy lessons learnt at lunch following great presentations at Curtin Perth ISSDP conference

this weekend, we showed up to support Logan youth and i’m glad we did. great chats with young people, families and community organisations about addiction, health and lived experience. a good reminder why public health research needs to stay connected to community. 💜

Thank you Connections for having a convo with me. It made me reflect on my program of research on substance use and mental health epidemiology and how it’s made possible by the good people I got to work with. Link to it here: https://buff.ly/4ozWK9z