Fentanyl: What do you know? Seminar video online
Alan Eade from Ambulance Victoria presenting at the fentanyl seminar
Fentanyl is a potent synthetic opioid with an important role in the treatment of pain. However, at approximately 100 ...
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Popular among a select percentage of the gay male population, chemsex parties can see a dozen or more participants smoke drugs or inject themselves with illegal drugs before partying hard, including intense sexual activity, often ...
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A tobacco treatment specialist has advised frontline workers to help their clients quit smoking and withdraw from their use of other drugs at the same time.
Historically, frontline workers have not always encouraged clients to simultaneously ...
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Anex Bulletin: Hi Felicity! What’s the scope and scale of your role today?
Felicity Sheaves: I manage the HIV and Related Services within Population Health for Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District, NSW Health.
We are a ...
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People who currently inject drugs are at the same time the largest and least-treated segment of Australians living with chronic hepatitis C and must become a priority, reported Dr Stephen McNally, Deputy CEO of Penington ...
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For Tully, improper filtering almost cost him his life.
Tully contracted endocarditis (inflammation of the heart’s inner lining) after injecting heroin filtered through a cigarette filter and dissolved in what he believes was dirty tap water.
Tully ...
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In Australia around 190,000 to 200,000 people live with hepatitis C, a disease that causes around 800 deaths across the country every year. New direct-acting antiviral treatments can cure around 95 per cent of hepatitis ...
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The poo doesn’t lie.
Australia’s increasingly sophisticated wastewater drug monitoring shows that ice (crystal methamphetamine) remains the most consumed illicit drug in Australia and its usage is increasing.
That’s one of the major findings of the most ...
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Coming down from ice is ‘living hell’, according to Ashton from Perth. Ashton used ice intravenously for four years, and says he often relied on other drugs, like benzodiazepines, cannabis, and opioids to combat the ...
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When the Victorian Parliament’s Law Reform, Road and Community Safety Committee commenced its Inquiry into Illicit and Synthetic Drugs and Prescription Medication all the way back in November 2015 expectations were high. Committee member and ...
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