News

As a way of honouring and remembering loved ones who have passed we look at how medically supervised injecting facilities help the Australian community.

Turning Point is excited to announce that our team is a finalist for the ‘Industry Collaboration Award’ at the 2022 Victorian Training Awards.

We speak to Lee, a social worker and case manager at Turning Point and proud queer, non-binary trans person, on the importance of Wear It Purple Day.

This September 12–14, the inaugural Rethink Addiction National Convention will call for a national coordinated response to alcohol, other drugs and gambling harm.

Turning Point is excited to announce that the National Addiction and Mental Health Surveillance Unit (NAMHSU) has received funding from VicHealth to research alcohol-related harms in the post COVID era.

Using Dry July as a starting point

Dry July is not only a great initiative to raise money for those affected by cancer, it can also be a starting point for people who want to remove alcohol from their lives.

Turning Point, Australia’s leading national addiction treatment, training and research centre, congratulates Dr Shalini Arunogiri on her academic promotion to Associate Professor within Monash University’s Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences (Monash FMNHS).

Jacqueline, a final year medicine student at Monash University, reflects on her speciality placement at Turning Point.

Karen is Turning Point’s Lived Experience Workforce and Advocacy Coordinator, a new position embedding the voices of people with lived experience of substance use across the organisation.

This week is Men’s Health week, global celebration to highlight the importance of men’s health and to promote and support the physical and mental health and wellbeing of men and boys in our communities.

Turning Point is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Shalini Arunogiri as Clinical Director for the Statewide Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

FARE Report: Alcohol use and harms during the COVID-19 pandemic