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Turning Point would like to thank everyone for their support of Addicted Australia.

Each year, DirectLine receives approximately 45,000 calls from people concerned about alcohol and other drugs.

Illicit drug use disorders are the most stigmatised health conditions worldwide, and stigma acts as a meaningful barrier to treatment entry and provision.

Tristan is a qualitative social researcher concerned with everyday experiences of alcohol and other drug consumption and care, with a particular focus on issues of gender, wellbeing and equity.

Last year was another big year for Turning Point and we are proud of the enormous amount of work carried out across our clinical, research, and education & workforce development teams.

Turning Point are pleased to release and share with the AOD sector new guidelines "Managing Cognitive Impairment in AOD Treatment: Practice Guidelines for Healthcare Professionals". The practice guidelines are a comprehensive update to the 2006 edition.

Turning Point is pleased to announce Megan Berry has joined us as our Head of Policy and Strategic Communication.

Carol is a group facilitator at Turning Point who is passionate about helping individuals struggling with alcohol or other drug use develop effective coping skills to build resilience and life skills.

Congratulations to addiction psychiatrist and Monash PhD student, Anthony Hew, who has been awarded an NHMRC postgraduate scholarship for his project Revolutionising System Reform in Mental Health: Addressing Gaps in the System through Big Data and Data Linkage.

Turning Point's Professor Dan Lubman AM and Dr Shalini Arunogiri are part of an interdisciplinary team of researchers awarded over $1.9 million to investigate the efficacy of MDMA-assisted psychological treatment to treat people with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Today Turning Point, Australia's national addiction treatment, training and research centre, officially relaunched its AODstats website.

This week the Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) published an article describing the process of revising the NHMRC’s 2020 Australian guidelines to reduce health risks from drinking alcohol.