April
Articles
05 August 2020
Childhood adversity and substance use: exploring the connection and how to prevent harms
Roughly 40% of people have experienced childhood adversity and subsequently, have a substantially greater risk of developing substance use problems than those who have not had these experiences.
05 August 2020
2020 PREMISE Career Development Support Grants awarded
The Matilda Centre has awarded a third round of PREMISE Career Development Support Grants, providing support for career development activities for early to mid-career researchers or research students.
05 August 2020
Empowering young people to support each other and develop lifelong skills
We spoke to Dr Louise Birrell about her work in adolescent mental health and alcohol prevention and the new app she is developing called Mind your Mate.
12 December 2020
Getting Help
The Matilda Centre delivers research programs that aim to increase the knowledge base around the effective prevention and treatment of mental and substance use disorders. While we do not provide treatment directly, we know that getting the right kind of help for mental and substance disorders is important.
12 December 2019
Unravelling the complexities of trauma in people with substance use problems
Logan Harvey, a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney’s Matilda Centre, is exploring the relationship between Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and substance use.
04 October 2019
2019 Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs Conference
School-based prevention takes centre stage at the 2019 Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs Conference.
04 October 2019
How can evidence-based ehealth interventions be best translated to end users?
Dr Milena Heinsch’s work explores relationships, systems, values and processes required to enact sustainable social change through research and guide the implementation of evidence-based ehealth interventions into health and community settings.
04 October 2019
Not a life sentence: Heroin study challenges assumptions about long-term outcomes
Australia's longest study of heroin addiction by the Australian Treatment Outcome Study (ATOS) is challenging common misconceptions, indicating dependency may not necessarily be a lifelong sentence.
01 July 2019
2019 PREMISE Travel and Career Development Support Grants awarded
The Matilda Centre has awarded a second round of PREMISE Travel and Career Development Support Grants. The grants provide support for career development activities for early to mid-career researchers or research students.
02 July 2019
How does intergenerational substance use affect the developing brain?
Briana has returned from the University of California in San Diego, where she collaborated with leading experts in brain development and substance use to develop a series of publications exploring child brain health.
