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  • Effective Approaches to Prevention, Diagnosis and Support for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
    • December 13, 2019
    • Posted by: Caitlyn Wilson
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    1 VAADA Vision A Victorian community in which the harms associated with drug use are reduced and general health and wellbeing is promoted. VAADA Objectives To provide leadership, representation, advocacy and information to the alcohol and other drug and related sectors. EFFECTIVE APPROACHES TO PREVENTION, DIAGNOSIS AND SUPPORT FOR FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDER Submission to

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  • Drug Use Monitoring in Australia 2018 report
    • December 5, 2019
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    AIC reports Statistical Report 18 Drug use monitoring in Australia: Drug use among police detainees, 2018 Alexandra Voce Tom Sullivan Drug use monitoring in Australia: Drug use among police detainees, 2018 Australian Institute of Criminology © Australian Institute of Criminology 2019 ISSN 2206-7930 (Online) ISBN: 978 1 925304 10 7 (Online) Apart from any fair

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  • VAADA Newsletter April 2019
    • November 19, 2019
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    2019 off to a flying start April 2019 In this issue 2 VAADA’s ‘excellent’ conference 4 Family Violence Capability in the AOD sector 4 SafeScript has now rolled out across Victoria 5 Forensic Foundations online course is now live 5 Review of Forensic AOD Targets and Systems Settings 6 Mental Health Royal Commission 6 Sector

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  • VAADA 2019 Annual Report
    • October 1, 2019
    • Posted by: Julia Daly
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    2019 Annual Report Victorian Alcohol & Drug Association TABLE OF CONTENTS VAADA Board 1 Board Member Profiles 1 VAADA Staff 5 Vision & Mission 5 Management Reports 6 Presidents Report 6 Executive Officer 7 Sector Development 9 • Co-occurring Capacity Building (CCB) Project 11 • Family Violence Capacity Building Project 12 • Multi-Agency Risk Assessment

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  • VAADA Newsletter September 2019
    • September 19, 2019
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    AOD: where do we fit in the community services puzzle? September 2019 In this issue 2 The Australian Drug Harms Ranking Study 4 Update on Victoria’s Mental Health Royal Commission 4 Deja Vu? 5 VAADA’s Murray Primary Health Network (PHN) Project 5 Sector Development Change within the Victorian alcohol and other drug (AOD) sector, is

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  • Prison should not be a death sentence
    • September 11, 2019
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    MEDIA RELEASE, SEPTEMBER 11 2019 Prison should not be a death sentence Four in 10 Victorians who fatally overdosed with heroin in 2017 were former Victorian prisoners. The Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association (VAADA) is distressed at the alarming number of ex-prisoners fatally overdosing from heroin. The data from the Coroners Court of Victoria reveals

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  • Media Release: Overdose Awareness Day – VAADA statement
    • August 30, 2019
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    MEDIA RELEASE Overdose Awareness Day 2019 – VAADA Statement 31 August 2019 Overdose Awareness Day reminds us that overdose does not discriminate, the impacts are felt far and wide the toll just continues increasing year on year. The Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association (VAADA) stands with our member alcohol and other drug (AOD) treatment providers

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  • Media Release: Common Sense Approach Welcomed to Public Drunkenness
    • August 23, 2019
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    The Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association (VAADA) welcomes the Victorian government’s announcement to decriminalise public drunkenness. The announcement, which aligns with a recommendation from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, seeks to remove an archaic law which drives those experiencing disadvantage further into harms way. The Victorian government has committed to establishing a

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  • Illicit Drug Data Report 2017-18
    • August 6, 2019
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    ILLICIT DRUG DATA REPORT 2017–18 Correspondence should be addressed to: Chief Executive Officer Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission PO Box 1936 Canberra City ACT 2601 Telephone: 02 6268 7000 (from within Australia) 61 2 6268 7000 (international) Published July 2019 The data contained in this report is produced by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) with

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  • NCETA Methamphetamine use among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People – Options for Workers
    • July 16, 2019
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    Methamphetamine Use Among Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander People1: Intervention Options for Workers Ann Roche, Allan Trifonoff, Kirsten Ryan There is increasing concern about methamphetamine use in Australia and particularly its impact on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities. What is methamphetamine? Methamphetamine is a stimulant like amphetamine, ecstasy, and cocaine. These drugs

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