Engage

It takes on average 27 years before people recover from alcohol problems, and less than 10 percent of those who experience alcohol and other drugs or gambling issues ever seek professional treatment.

- Dennis et al 2005.

Empowering health systems

Beyond the Emergency Project

Investigating acute male mental health presentations to ambulance services and identifies opportunities to improve mental health support for men.

Gambling and Mental Illness Study

Understanding barriers to responding to gambling problems by clinicians, and the rates of gambling problems amongst people seeking treatment for mental illness.

Did not attend

Exploring whether adopting behaviour-change prompts can increase attendance rates in addiction treatment services.

Naloxone Project

Enhancing the capacity of pharmacists to provide overdose prevention and naloxone information to people who are prescribed opioids for chronic pain.

Statewide Service

for Mental Health and Addiction Consultation

Health promotion

Gambling Self-help Study

Developing self-help gambling strategies and actions used by problems gamblers to determine the uptake and helpfulness of these within the Australian context.

Gambling Intervention at Venues Trial

Investigating the impact of evidence-based action and coping planning intervention in Victorian gambling venues, and examines a range of strategies that gamblers use to stick to their limits.

Making the Link Trial

Evaluating the effectiveness of a school-based intervention that aims to help adolescents overcome barriers to seeking professional help for mental health and substance use problems.

DirectLine Peer Worker Navigation

This project will use a navigation intervention comprising a peer worker to build trusting relationships with DirectLine callers based on shared lived experience

Health4Her

A brief intervention to improve awareness of the alcohol-breast cancer link and address harmful alcohol use among women attending breast screening services.