Recent publications that NCCRED staff have led or contributed to as collaborators.
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Sex, Methamphetamine, and a Surge in Syphilis Among Women and Men Who Have Sex With Women: A Call to Diversify Research Addressing Sexualized Drug Use
Exploring the Utility and Appropriateness of Dose Thresholds for Issuing of Public Drug Alerts on High-Dose MDMA: A Qualitative Study
‘A fine line between euphoria and death’: a qualitative study exploring gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) use among people who identify as heterosexual living in Australia
Trends in gamma-hydroxybutyrate use, harms and treatment in Australia, 2013 to 2024
Expanding Access to Addiction Medicine Specialist Care in Regional New South Wales, Australia Through Telehealth
Digital health interventions for people who use methamphetamine: a scoping review
A qualitative analysis of participant expectations and experiences of psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy for methamphetamine use disorder
Insomnia is associated with psychological distress in individuals with methamphetamine dependence
Incorporating experiential reports provided by people who use drugs into drug-related early warning systems: benefits, risks principles and approaches
The Emergence of Novel Benzodiazepines in Australia, Evidence, Alerts, Clinical Management and Harm Reduction—A Narrative Review
Implementation and formative evaluation of a peer-led chemsex intervention targeting sexualised crystal methamphetamine and GHB use: the M3THOD study
The Need to Revitalise Drug Use Monitoring to Keep Pace With a More Dynamic, Digitally Enabled and Globally Connected Drug Market.
Lisdexamfetamine for the treatment of acute methamphetamine withdrawal: A pilot feasibility and safety trial
Impact of dextroamphetamine substitution on the use of illicit amphetamines in adults with amphetamine dependence: a study protocol for the multicentre double blind randomised controlled trial ATLAS4Dependence
Emergency department presentations, hospitalisations and police seizure data related to gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) in New South Wales, Australia, from 2015 to 2024
Strategies to achieve the UNAIDS 95% HIV diagnosis target in Australia: Insights from a multidisciplinary roundtable
Psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy for methamphetamine use disorder: a pilot open-label safety and feasibility study.
From environmental disasters to emerging drugs; a framework to understand, map and assess drug-related early warning systems
Reducing Methamphetamine Use in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities With the “We Can Do This” Web App: Qualitative Evaluation of Acceptability and Feasibility
Nursing Preparedness for Emerging Drugs of Concern.
Co-design of the Australian Prompt Response Network for a public-health focused intersectoral approach to information sharing on emerging drugs of concern.
Hydromorphone hopes: A qualitative study of people initiating supervised short-acting injectable opioid treatment in Australia
Characteristics of take-home fentanyl test strip use and support for drug checking services among people who use heroin in Australia: learnings for an increasingly complex drug market
Exploring the perceived usefulness of integration support after naturalistic psychedelic experiences in people concerned about their substance use: A survey
Exploring Psychedelic Experiences Experiences Among People Who Regularly Use Methamphetamine: Findings from an International Survey
Substance Use and Sex Index version 2 (SUSI-2): Validation of a brief questionnaire for the measurement of behaviours associated with transmission of blood borne viruses and sexually transmitted infections.
Commentary on Young et al.: Clinical guidance is required for stimulant co-prescription with opioid agonist therapy
Bridging the evidence and the politics: Implementation trial of supervised injectable opioid treatment (SIOT) in Australia
Web-Based Application for Reducing Methamphetamine Use Among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People: Randomized Waitlist Controlled Trial
Responding to reports of nitazene toxicity in Australia.
Protocol of an open-label safety and feasibility pilot study of ketamine-assisted psychotherapy for methamphetamine use disorder (the KAPPA trial)
Trial protocol of an open-label pilot study of oral naltrexone–bupropion combination pharmacotherapy for the treatment of methamphetamine use disorder (the NABU trial)
Exploring experiences of talk therapies among gay and bisexual men seeking to reduce or abstain from using crystal methamphetamine in the context of chemsex
Lisdexamfetamine in the treatment of methamphetamine dependence: A randomised, placebo-controlled trial
Psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy for methamphetamine dependence: A case report involving daily methamphetamine use
Implementation of time-limited parenteral hydromorphone in people with treatment-resistant injecting opioid use disorder: a protocol for a single-site, uncontrolled, open-label study to assess feasibility, safety and cost
'You mean you're not doing it already?' A national sentinel toxico-surveillance system for detecting illicit, emerging and novel psychoactive drugs in presentations to emergency departments
Effect of a Smartphone App (S-Check) on Actual and Intended Help-Seeking and Motivation to Change Methamphetamine Use Among Adult Consumers of Methamphetamine in Australia: Randomized Waitlist-Controlled Trial
Objective and subjective sleep during lisdexamfetamine treatment of acute methamphetamine withdrawal: new measurement paradigm
Sociodemographic and Health Factors of the Alcohol Treatment-seeking Population in New South Wales, Australia
Needle and syringe sharing among people who have recently injected drugs in Australia: The ETHOS Engage Study
Trends in reported GHB-related presentations to Sydney emergency departments between 2012 and 2021
Measuring Objective and Subjective Sleep during Lisdexamfetamine Treatment of Acute Methamphetamine Withdrawal: A Feasibility Study
Participant experiences in a pilot study for methamphetamine withdrawal treatment: Implications for retention
A multicentre case series of analytically confirmed gamma-hydroxybutyrate intoxications in Western Australian emergency departments: Pre-hospital circumstances, co-detections and clinical outcomes
Prescription psychostimulants for the treatment of amphetamine-type stimulant use disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized placebo-controlled trials
Health-Related Quality of Life of People Who Inject Drugs: The Enhancing Treatment of Hepatitis C in Opioid Substitution Settings Engage Study
Moving from feasible to essential: Progress and future directions for promoting the implementation of substance use services for forcibly displaced populations in humanitarian settings
Methamphetamine and emerging drugs of concern: A training needs analysis of Australian alcohol and other drug helplines
Bupropion for treatment of amphetamine-type stimulant use disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis of placebo-controlled randomized clinical trials
Psychosocial stress and methamphetamine use: A mixed-methods study of intersectional stigma and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander methamphetamine use
Substance use, socio-demographic characteristics, and self-rated health of people seeking alcohol and other drug treatment in New South Wales: baseline findings from a cohort study
Understandings, attitudes, practices and responses to GHB overdose among GHB consumers
Testing a Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment Intervention Approach for Addressing Unhealthy Alcohol and Other Drug Use in Humanitarian Settings: Protocol of the Ukuundapwa Chapamo Randomised Controlled Trial
Substance Use Disorders Among Forcibly Displaced People: a Narrative Review
Investigating associations between methamphetamine use, mental health and risky sexual behaviours amongst Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
“There’s a big tag on my head”: exploring barriers to treatment seeking with women who use methamphetamine in Sydney, Australia
Health and social characteristics of clients reporting amphetamine type substance use at entry to public alcohol and other drug services in New South Wales, Australia, 2016-2019
Inpatient GHB withdrawal management in an inner-city hospital in Sydney, Australia: a retrospective medical record review
Phenobarbital to manage severe gamma-hydroxybutyrate withdrawal: A case series
Trial protocol of an open label pilot study of lisdexamfetamine for the treatment of acute methamphetamine withdrawal.
Most common principal diagnoses assigned to Australian emergency department presentations involving alcohol use: A multi-centre study.
Playing at the edges, navigating sexual boundaries, and narrating sexual distress; Practices and perspectives of sexuality and gender diverse people who use GHB.
Pharmacological treatment for methamphetamine withdrawal: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.
Individual level peer interventions for gay and bisexual men who have sex with men between 2000 and 2020: A scoping review.
Mortality in the SuperMIX cohort of people who inject drugs in Melbourne, Australia: A prospective observational study.
Controlling for pleasure and risk: The experiences of sexuality and gender diverse people who use GHB
Commentary on opioid agonist treatment and patient outcomes during COVID-19
Barriers to help-seeking among music festival attendees in New South Wales, Australia
‘The Drug Survey App’: a protocol for developing and validating an interactive population survey tool for drug use among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians
Overdose and take‐home naloxone in emergency settings: a pilot study examining feasibility of delivering brief interventions addressing overdose prevention with ‘take‐home naloxone’ in emergency departments.
Addressing injecting related risks among people who inject both opioids and stimulants: Findings from an Australian survey of people who inject drugs
Correlates of higher-risk drug-related behaviours at music festivals in New South Wales, Australia.
Priorities for addressing substance use disorder in humanitarian settings
Wastewater analysis for psychoactive substances at music fesivals across New South Wales, Australia in 2019-2020
One-third of people who inject drugs are at risk of incomplete treatment for staphylococcus aureus bateremia: a retrospective medical record review
The emerging drugs network of Australia: a toxicosurveillance system of illicit and emerging drugs in the emergency department.
Impact of the removal of patient co-payments for antiretroviral therapy (ART) on out-of-pocket expenditure, adherence and virological failure among Australian adults living with HIV
A clinical research priority setting study for issues related to the use of methamphetamine and emerging drugs of concern in Australia
Profile and correlates of colorimetric reagent kit use among people who use ecstasy/MDMA and other illegal stimulants in Australia
Safety and tolerability of oral lisdexamfetamine in adults with methamphetamine dependence: a phase-2 dose-escalation study.
Risk of discharge against medical advice among hospital inpatients with a history of opioid agonist therapy in New South Wales, Australia: a cohort study and nested crossover-cohort analysis.
Survey methods and characteristics of a sample of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous people who have recently used methamphetamine: the NIMAC survey
Challenges in maintaining treatment services for people who use drugs during the COVID-19 pandemic
Pharmacological Treatment of Methamphetamine/Amphetamine Dependence: A Systematic Review
Designing, implementing and evaluating the overdose response with take-home naloxone model of care: An evaluation of client outcomes and perspectives
Socioeconomic and psychosocial factors are associated with poor treatment outcomes in Australian adults living with HIV: a case-control study.
A Web-Based Therapeutic Program (We Can Do This) for Reducing Methamphetamine Use and Increasing Help-Seeking Among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People: Protocol for a Randomized Wait-List Controlled Trial
LiMA: a study protocol for a randomised, double-blind, placebo controlled trial of lisdexamfetamine for the treatment of methamphetamine dependence
A managed alcohol program in Sydney, Australia: Acceptability, cost-savings and nonbeverage alcohol use.
Substance Use and Sex Index (SUSI): First stage development of an assessment tool to measure behaviour change in sexualised drug use for substance use treatment studies.
Pill testing or drug checking in Australia: Acceptability of service design features
Role of physicians in the management of substance use disorders
Providing a model of health care service to stimulant users in Sydney.
