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In conjunction with teaching, training and other educational activities, QADREC conducts a targeted research program. This research program operates from a public health perspective, focusing on the determinants and contexts of alcohol and other drug use problems. QADREC also takes an explicitly policy-oriented approach, undertaking research to support evidence-based supply reduction strategies, strategies for the prevention and treatment of drug-related harm, and harm reduction initiatives. In recent years the scope of QADREC’s research has broadened to include a focus on life-course determinants of substance use and on patterns of alcohol and other drug use among those involved with the criminal justice system.
Current and recent research activities for the past two years are detailed below. An archive of past research is also provided.
Current
- Mater University Study of Pregnancy (MUSP)
- Ecstasy and related drugs reporting system (EDRS)
- Amphetamines in Queensland - Survey 2(AIQ2)
- Drug use by a community sample of young amphetamine users in South-East Queensland: A longitudinal study
- Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS)
- Mortality after release from custody (MARC)
- Passports to advantage: Health and capacity building as a basis for social integration
- Use of licit and illicit drugs by women during pregnancy over the period 2000-2005, Brisbane Australia
- An Evaluation of Illicit Drug Court Diversion and Police Diversion Programs 2009
- Amphetamine Type Stimulants: Treatment Outcomes – Mental and Physical Health
Archive
- Longitudinal Treatment Outcomes for Methamphetamine Dependence: a Treatment Cohort Study
- Patterns of alcohol and drugs in an emergency department (PADIE-II)
- The Young Adult Outcomes of Childhood and Adolescent Antisocial Behaviour: An Australian Cohort
- Alcohol brief intervention in an emergency department
- Diversion outcome study (DOS)
- Patterns of drug use and risk-taking at Schoolies
- Methamphetamine treatment evaluation study (MATES)
- Post-Release Experience of Prisoners in Queensland (PREP-Q)
- Co-occuring drug and mental health problems
- National needle and syringe program (NSP) worker's training package
- Electronic information access on HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C and other blood borne viruses
- Non injecting routes of administration (NIROA)
- Patterns of alcohol consumption and risk of injury
- Professional practice change
- Liquor enforcement and other proactive strategies (LEAPS)
- Ecstasy Market Indicators project (EMI)
- Sex Worker Project
- Post-release mortality among ex-prisoners in Queensland: A data linkage study
- Injection related injuries and disease project (IRID)
- Pilot youth drug use monitoring system (YDMS)
- Indigenous Risk Impact (IRIS) and brief intervention
- Enhancing clinical decision making and assessment in the provision of takeaway doses in the Queensland opoid treatment program
- Study of Inter-Generational Health (SIGH)
- CONNECT project
- Hepatitis C (HCV) research
- HCV interventions appropriate for young injecting drug users at risk of detention
- HCV educational guidelines targeting young injecting drug user