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Session 7B - Illicit Drugs & Drug Alert

Tracks
Track 2
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
3:05 PM - 4:05 PM
Waterfront 1

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Hybrid Session


Speaker

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Asoociate Professor Amy Peacock
Associate Professor
National Drug And Alcohol Research Centre

Awareness of, and behavioural responses to, drug alerts in Australia: Findings from the Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System and the Illicit Drug Reporting System

3:05 PM - 3:17 PM

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Biography

Dr Amy Peacock is an Associate Professor at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, and an Adjunct Researcher in the School of Medicine, University of Tasmania. She is current Program Lead for Drug Trends, a national illicit drug monitoring system.
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Dr Penny Hill
Prompt Response Network Lead
NCCRED

An Australian National Prompt Response Network for Emerging Drugs

3:17 PM - 3:29 PM

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Penny is the Prompt Response Network Lead and Emerging Drugs Research Fellow at NCCRED. She recently completed her PhD with the Burnet Institute. She is a board member of Harm Reduction Victoria, Harm Reduction Australia, the Vienna NGO Committee on Drugs, and is the co-founder of SSDP Australia.
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Associate Professor Jason Ferris
Program Leader Global Substance Use And Mental Health Unit
The University Of Queensland

Adverse experiences resulting in emergency medical treatment seeking following the use of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and magic mushrooms

3:29 PM - 3:41 PM

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Associate Professor Jason Ferris is a drug and alcohol epidemiologist and biostatistician with 20 years of public health research experience. At the University of Queensland, Faculty of Medicine, he leads the Global Substance Use and Mental Health Unit and is the Director for Research and Statistical Support Service.
Dr Krista Siefried
Clinical Research Lead, Senior Lecturer, Deputy Director
The National Centre For Clinical Research On Emerging Drugs (NCCRED)

Inpatient GHB withdrawal management in an inner-city hospital in Sydney, Australia: a retrospective medical record review

3:41 PM - 3:53 PM

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Krista is a clinician researcher with an interest in treatments and outcomes for people with substance use disorder.
Dr Krista Siefried
Clinical Research Lead, Senior Lecturer, Deputy Director
The National Centre For Clinical Research On Emerging Drugs (NCCRED)

Phenobarbital to manage severe gamma-hydroxybutyrate withdrawal: a case series

3:53 PM - 3:57 PM

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Biography

Dr Georgia Freeman is currently a GP registrar undertaking her first year of training. She undertook a year as a drug and alcohol registrar at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney in 2021

Chair

Caroline Salom
Principal Research Fellow
The University of Queensland


Touchpoint Staff

Brooke McClune
Touchpoint

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Erica Zarins
Touchpoint

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