Over the course of our seed funding program, over $2m was awarded to 24 research projects and 6 clinical research scholars.
The funded projects have generated innovative clinical research, networks, practices and policy changes resulting in transformations the following areas:
- The creation of local and national networks and alert systems connecting hospitals, emergency departments, NGOs, regional and rural centres, consumer organisations, universities, toxicology units and public health departments to respond to harms associated with the use of emerging drugs.
- Integrated models of care and referral for people who use methamphetamine and/or emerging drugs.
- Pharmacotherapies for the treatment of methamphetamine use disorder.
- Risk reduction measures for people who use illicit substances at music festivals.
- Critical data-sharing networks to improve clinical responses to harms associated withthe use of emerging drugs.
- Online early interventions to minimise the harms for consumers and their families.
