I was 14-years-old the first time I injected ice. I came from a good family home, but I was an anxious young man deficient in self-esteem and confidence. Aged 13 my parents separated, and away ...
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The mainstream media has now latched onto the arrival in Australia of the dangerous drug fentanyl and its even more lethal cousin, carfentantyl, but what hasn’t received a lot of coverage yet is how people ...
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Myf Briggs suspects she inherited her deep-seated commitment to social justice from her grandmother. It’s always been there; recently Myf found some school reports from when she was in Grade Six that spoke about her ...
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Misuse of prescription and over-the-counter medications is a growing issue in Australia. One particular problem is the misuse of codeine, which is found in many common over-the-counter medications for pain, colds and flu, and cough ...
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International and Australian research has shown for decades that prisoner populations have higher rates of blood-borne viruses and sexually transmitted infections – chiefly, hepatitis B (HBV) and hepatitis C (HCV) – than the general community.
“In ...
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Hepatitis C is a disease that has had serious impacts in Australia.
An estimated 800 people die from complications of the disease each year. It remains the number one reason for liver transplantation.
But in Australia we ...
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The estimated number of individuals DAA treatment (bar charts) and the proportion of individuals living with chronic HCV infections who initiated DAA treatment (pie charts) during March 2016 to June 2017, by jurisdiction.
Estimated number of ...
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Late last year, when the Andrews Government announced that North Richmond would be the home of the state’s first medically supervised injecting room, it was a huge relief for many Victorians.
Just how important this announcement ...
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