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Substance use and mental health

Global Drug Survey Special Edition on COVID-19

Published on: 14 May 2020
The Global Drug Survey (GDS), led by Professor Adam Winstock, is the largest online global survey of people who use drugs.
Live music venue

Tighter alcohol licensing hasn't killed live music, but it's harder for emerging artists

Published on: 15 August 2019
This is the fourth in a series of articles discussing a recently released comprehensive evaluation of the Queensland government’s 2016 policy reforms to tackle alcohol-fuelled violence and the implications for liquor regulation and the night-time economy in Queensland and Australia. A summary report is also available.
Going out at night

Unwanted sexual attention plagues young women going out at night

Published on: 14 August 2019
This is the third in a series of articles discussing a recently released comprehensive evaluation of the Queensland government’s 2016 policy reforms to tackle alcohol-fuelled violence and the implications for liquor regulation and the night-time economy in Queensland and Australia. A summary report is also available.
Drinking alcohol

Queenslanders are among our heaviest drinkers on nights out, and changing that culture is a challenge

Published on: 13 August 2019
This is the second in a series of articles discussing a recently released comprehensive evaluation of the Queensland government’s 2016 policy reforms to tackle alcohol-fuelled violence and the implications for liquor regulation and the night-time economy in Queensland and Australia. A summary report is also available.
Police at night

Lessons from Queensland on alcohol, violence and the night-time economy

Published on: 12 August 2019
This is the first in a series of articles on a recently released comprehensive evaluation of the Queensland government’s 2016 policy reforms to tackle alcohol-fuelled violence and the implications for alcohol regulation and the night-time economy in Queensland and Australia.

The profile of festival drug takers might be different to what you expect

Published on: 18 July 2019
A NSW Coronial Inquest investigating a series of drug-related deaths at Australian music festivals has heard evidence of festival goers taking multiple concurrent doses of MDMA to avoid police detection and not receiving adequate medical attention.
Pre-drinking not just for the young

Pre-drinking not just for the young

Published on: 13 May 2019
Instead of slowing down, New Zealanders appear to increase their pre-drinking after the age of 30, a University of Queensland study has found.
Pills

Pill testing: the facts

Published on: 6 February 2019
Following a number of recent drug-related deaths at music festivals across Australia, pill testing has again become a hot topic across media outlets
The 'high' cost of substance abuse

The 'high' cost of substance abuse

Published on: 20 September 2018
To celebrate Research Week 2018, UQ is proud to share how UQ research is creating change, right across the world, every day.
Discover how our researchers are collaborating with research partners both in Australia and abroad to tackle substance abuse head-on.
Tobacco use

Prisoners smoke nicotine-infused tea leaves

Published on: 16 August 2018
Following a ban on tobacco smoking in prisons, some Australian prisoners are creating substitute cigarettes from crushed nicotine lozenges mixed with tea leaves. More than half of the participants we sampled in our recent study have used this product, known as “teabacco”.
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