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World Drug Day 2021 - Media Briefing: Music Festival Drug Deaths and Harms Plummet to Zero! #WDD2021 #SaveLives

World Drug Day 2021 - Dalgarno Institute: Get the Facts for Your Healthier Drug Free LifTe & TCommunity #DemandReduction

AOD Primary Prevention & Demand Reduction Priority Primer: Tasking the National Health Strategies for Community Well-being

This Primer is an introduction to Demand Reduction and Primary Prevention, aimed at policy makers and educators in the AOD space. It is written in accessible language to invite the investigator to better reflect on basic principles of best-practice policy use for best health outcomes for our communities.

Dealing With Addiction - Dalgarno Institute Research Report

"Baking Bad & Getting Baked: Is Your Rental Property Toxic – Residential Drug Use & Need for Protective Legislation."

Moral Imperatives, Drug Use & Drivers for Change

CHILDREN: REAL AND LASTING CASUALTIES OF DOMESTIC, FAMILIAL AND INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE – THE ALCOHOL & DUG (AOD) CONNECTION.

Drug Policy: Building or Demolishing Community Resilience? Changing the Narrative.

Unpacking unhelpful subjective narratives being used to re-frame Drug Policy to unhelpful community ends. Community, family, and particularly children safety, health and well-being should be enhanced, not diminished by Drug Policy interpretations.

The Vaping debacle continues, with many jurisdictions rethinking this failed harm reduction tool. Some banning, Some choosing 'On Prescription' only models for tobacco use.

Vaping Information Resource

Humpty Dumpty Resilience Education Project - This is a ‘learning together’ evidence-based teaching and learning series. It is aimed at assisting parents, mentors, teachers, and/or coaches to develop aspects of resilience in the emerging adult, specifically focusing on denying, and/or delaying uptake of alcohol and other drugs. This pilot is an introduction to the series and therefore specifically pitched at both facilitators and the target audience – teenagers, giving both an inclusive preview session of the projects focus, style and intent.

Check it Out - Sign up at https://www.nobrainer.org.au/index.php/resources/humpty-dumpty-resilience

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The complexities and risks around this highly propagandized substance, have created a conundrum; one which is not only confusing the community, but putting our communities most important asset - our children - at risk.

It is vital that all protective factors are harnessed to best inform and equip our communities regarding the risks and harms of this not-so-benign substance.

If you were to read three evidence-based scientifically reviewed research and/or journal articles on the inherent social, community, mental, environment, health and productivity harms of Cannabis every single day for 10 years, you still would not have read 25% of the current research!

This is the 'jump in' space - get started, so you can make informed decisions about you and your family health and well-being.

https://www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au/resources/the-conundrum-continues.html

Humpty Dumpty Resilience Education Project - This is a ‘learning together’ evidence-based teaching and learning series. It is aimed at assisting parents, mentors, teachers, and/or coaches to develop aspects of resilience in the emerging adult, specifically focusing on denying, and/or delaying uptake of alcohol and other drugs. This pilot is an introduction to the series and therefore specifically pitched at both facilitators and the target audience – teenagers, giving both an inclusive preview session of the projects focus, style and intent.

Check it Out - Sign up at

CHILDREN: REAL AND LASTING CASUALTIES OF DOMESTIC, FAMILIAL AND INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE – THE ALCOHOL & OTHER DRUG (AOD) CONNECTION. An overview of the now under, or not reported, harms of substance use of others on children.

Inquiry Into Public Communication Campaigns Targeting Drug & Substance Abuse - Dalgarno Institute Submission

The Dalgarno Institute were proud to be part ANACAD commissioned consultancy on the effectiveness of AOD Education in Australian Government Schools. Review attached - The imperative of evidence-based demand reduction, 'all of school and community' education is not only vital, but effective when both Affective and Cognitive Education Domains are creatively and thoroughly used. Dalgarno Institute

Then There Were Three - Marijuana Markets An overview perspective piece on the now legal, black and grey marijuana markets in play in the jurisdictions that have legalized marijuana for 'recreational' use.

Social Determinants & Substance Use: A Perspective Beyond the Policy Silo Pragmatics A reflective evidence-based review of factors that may facilitate engagement with illicit drugs.

Dalgarno Research Report: Needle & Syringe Program - The Australian Experience

Are we building or demolishing community resilience? Drug Policy - Changing the Narrative

Stigma, Drug Use & Proactive Contagions to Reduce Both

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