National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC)

The repeal of the NT's minimum unit price – which set a floor price of $1.30 per standard drink – in March 2025 led to an immediate increase in the availability of cheap products, an NDARC-led study shows.

Read more here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.70466

The results are in… and 98% of survey respondents found our NDARC Webinar Series to be informative and well-run, while 84% felt the webinars cover current challenges and emerging issues in the sector ⭐📣🥳

Want to know more key insights from our recent external evaluation? Head over to our blog post: https://www.unsw.edu.au/research/ndarc/news-events/blogs/2026/05/three-insights-from-the-NDARC-webinar-series-evaluation

Take part in our research 🔍💬 If you are 18 years or older, have injected drugs in the last six months and live in any Australian state or territory capital city (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Hobart, Darwin or Canberra), our project would love to invite you to take part in our latest study.

Find out more about the Illicit Drug Reporting System ( ) here: https://www.unsw.edu.au/research/ndarc/ndarc-projects/the-illicit-drug-reporting-system-idrs

Contact us to register your interest: [email protected]

For our next webinar, join Dr Danielle Tran and Dr Bianca Varney to explore contemporary evidence on the use of and for the treatment of opioid dependence in pregnancy.

🗓️ Thursday, 18 June
⏲️ 3pm AEST
📍 Zoom webinar

Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_x1PQfqfBTw2yyynQvOEZhA

Associate Professor Amy Peacock (NDARC Deputy Director and Drug Trends Program Lead) and Dr Krista Siefried (Clinical Research Lead and Deputy Director of the National Centre for Clinical Research on Emerging Drugs) spoke to the Addiction Audio podcast about the use and harms of .

🎙️🎧 Listen here: https://shows.acast.com/addiction-audio/episodes/use-and-harms-of-gamma-hydroxybutyrate-ghb-with-amy-peacock

A recording of National Centre for Clinical Research on Emerging Drugs (NCCRED)’s latest webinar, ‘Healthy ageing for people who use methamphetamine’, is now available to view online.

Watch it here:

Healthy ageing for people who use methamphetamine This webinar presented findings from two studies into methamphetami...

Did you miss last week’s NDARC Webinar with Dr Mia Miller about the repeal of the Minimum Unit Price (MUP) policy in the Northern Territory?

📹Watch the recording here: https://www.unsw.edu.au/research/ndarc/resources/when-minimum-unit-pricing-was-repealed-the-nt-experience

Amazing to read about our very own Oskar Sachs and his career pivot into public health research (see link in comments) 🙌🎓 We’re thrilled to have Oskar with us at NDARC, where he’s currently undertaking his PhD under the supervision of Scientia Professor Louisa Degenhardt, Research Director.

Feeling inspired to kickstart your own postgraduate research journey? NDARC is seeking postgraduate research students for a variety of projects. Expressions of interest are now open to commence study in Term 1 2027 onwards.

Find out more: https://www.unsw.edu.au/research/ndarc/research-impact/postgraduate-research/scholarships-at-ndarc/hdr-scholarship-projects

Co***ne availability has reached a record high globally, and its use in Australia remains among the highest per capita globally. While frequency of use remains mostly occasional, cocaine-related deaths increased between 2000 and 2023, mostly from toxicity and cardiovascular events. Hospitalisations and treatment episodes also rose.

Read more in the new Drug Trends bulletin series, 'Trends in Drug Markets, Use and Health Impacts in Australia', here: https://www.unsw.edu.au/research/ndarc/resources/trends-market-use-health-cocaine-2026

Have you read the June edition of the NDARC newsletter? Catch up on the latest news and events in the sector.

Read more here: https://us4.campaign-archive.com/?u=90d6d8183951588207fcd9d0b&id=574e726afc