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VAADA Press Release | Festival Overdoses Preventable
- January 8, 2024
- Posted by: Trudi Jordan
- Category: ENEWS
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PRESS RELEASE 08/01/2024 [starts] The eight overdoses which occurred at the Hardmission music festival on 6 January 2024 are distressing, not only due to the pain and suffering experienced by -
President Statement | VAADA Board
- December 11, 2023
- Posted by: Trudi Jordan
- Category: ENEWS
I am pleased to announce a number of changes to the Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association (VAADA) Board of Directors. Clare Davies, CEO of the Self Help Addiction Resource Centre -
Victoria is missing its Consumer Leadership Agency
- December 5, 2023
- Posted by: Trudi Jordan
- Category: ENEWS
The Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association (VAADA), has joined a call for the urgent creation of a Consumer Leadership Agency by the Victorian Government, in line with Recommendation 29 from -
Drug Checking Saves Lives
- November 30, 2023
- Posted by: Trudi Jordan
- Category: ENEWS
PRESS RELEASE 30/11/2023 [starts] The Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association (VAADA) supports the drug checking pilot proposed by the Victorian Greens, along with the Legalise Cannabis Party and Animal Justice -
Cannabis law reform in Victoria a necessary step to improving community wellbeing
- November 27, 2023
- Posted by: Julia Daly
- Category: ENEWS
Press release 24/11/2023 [starts] The Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association (VAADA) supports law reform which reduces law and order interventions among people who use drugs. To that end, VAADA supports -
VAADA Annual Report 2023
- November 20, 2023
- Posted by: Trudi Jordan
- Category: ENEWS
President's Report - Dr Tamsin Short To say that 2022-2023 has been a big year for VAADA is no understatement. As we slowly adjust to life after the pandemic, the -
Increasing rates of overdose in Victoria necessitate urgent action
- November 8, 2023
- Posted by: Trudi Jordan
- Category: ENEWS
PRESS RELEASE 8/11/2023 [starts] The Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association (VAADA) is deeply concerned about the surge in fatal overdoses in Victoria during 2022 as detailed in the data released -
Public Intoxication reforms are overdue and need to be supported
- November 3, 2023
- Posted by: Julia Daly
- Category: ENEWS
PRESS RELEASE 3/11/2023 [starts] The Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association (VAADA) supports the public intoxication reforms noting that they are a necessary public health measure and that intoxication is unambiguously -
77 community agencies support the Coronial recommendations for a drug checking service in Victoria
- October 23, 2023
- Posted by: Julia Daly
- Category: ENEWS
Media Relase, 23 October 2023 Check. Warn. Reform. On Monday 23 October, the Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association in collaboration with RMIT University will release a statement supported by 77 -
Victorian Alcohol and Other Drugs Workforce Development Survey Report 2023
- October 19, 2023
- Posted by: Trudi Jordan
- Category: ENEWS
The Alcohol and Other Drugs Workforce Development Survey Report is now available for download. Thank you to everyone who participated. Nearly 400 AOD staff in the Victorian AOD sector completed