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  • AOD Sector Leaders and Managers in VIC: on Identity, Skills, and Development.
    • March 1, 2022
    • Posted by: Julia Daly
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    A research report for The Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association (VAADA) by Ramon Wenzel, PhD | Curtin University, 2022 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY WHY WE DID THIS RESEARCH For the non-government alcohol and other drugs (AOD) sector to be successful and sustainable, it must attract, develop and retain a capable and engaged workforce. Organisational leaders – by

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  • The AOD Sector Workforce in VIC: on Engagement, Learning and Wellbeing
    • March 1, 2022
    • Posted by: Julia Daly
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    A research report for the Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association (VAADA) by Ramon Wenzel, PhD | Curtin University, 2022 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY WHY WE DID THIS RESEARCH The non-government alcohol and other drugs (AOD) sector in the state of Victoria (VIC) relies on its workforce to bring about positive change to clients, families and communities. How

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  • Additional supervised injecting capacity vital in addressing reduce drug harm
    • June 5, 2020
    • Posted by: Caitlyn Wilson
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    The Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association welcomes the announcement of a second Injecting room following the release of the Hamilton report.

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  • Coronavirus (COVID-19) Alcohol and Other Drug Services – residential guidance June 2020
    • June 4, 2020
    • Posted by: Caitlyn Wilson
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    This information provides guidance to Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) community residential rehabilitation and withdrawal providers (referred to as essential AOD residential services in this guidance) about continued service delivery during coronavirus (COVID-19).

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  • Challenges in maintaining treatment services for people who use drugs during the COVID-19 pandemic
    • May 22, 2020
    • Posted by: Caitlyn Wilson
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    The impact of COVID-19 across health services, including treatment services for people who use drugs, is emerging but likely to have a high impact. Treatment services for people who use drugs provide essential treatment services including opiate agonist treatment and needle syringe programmes alongside other important treatment programmes across all substance types including withdrawal and counselling services. Drug and alcohol hospital consultation-liaison clinicians support emergency departments and other services provided in hospital settings in efficiently managing patients who use drugs and present with other health problems.

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  • Submission to the Inquiry into the social and economic benefits of improving mental health
    • May 5, 2020
    • Posted by: Caitlyn Wilson
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    VAADA Vision A Victorian community in which the harms associated with drug use are reduced and general health and well being is promoted. VAADA Objectives To provide leadership, representation, advocacy and information to the alcohol and other drug and related sectors. Submission to the Inquiry into the social and economic benefits of improving mental health

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  • Media Release: SafeScript a welcome reform but the risk of patient displacement during pandemic remains
    • April 1, 2020
    • Posted by: Caitlyn Wilson
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    MEDIA RELEASE 1 April 2020 [starts] SafeScript a welcome reform but the risk of patient displacement during pandemic remains The Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association (VAADA) has been a long term advocate for the introduction of real time prescription monitoring as a means to reduce the excessive pharmaceutical toll within Victoria. Victoria’s real time prescription

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  • VAADA Newsletter September 2019
    • September 19, 2019
    • Posted by: Caitlyn Wilson
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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
    • Posted by: Caitlyn Wilson
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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: 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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