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Practice managers, Pharmacy staff, Pharmacists, Nurses, Medical receptionists, GPs, AOD & mental health workers
Cultural content
Raise It videos
Videos featuring dozens of health professionals from across Melbourne’s CBD, northern and western suburbs reflecting on their experiences, their assumptions, and the lessons their work has taught them.
North Western Melbourne Primary Health Network
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Partner organisations
Resources
Raise It partner toolkit
This toolkit has been developed to support like-minded organisations who wish to amplify, endorse, or host the RAISE IT campaign.
North Western Melbourne Primary Health Network
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Partner organisations
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Fair Treatment
Campaign calling for modern, evidence-based drug laws that focus on health and wellbeing, and what actually works.
Uniting Church NSW/ACT and Uniting
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Pharmacists, Nurses, GPs, AOD & mental health workers
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Insight and Dovetail eLearning modules
Self-paced online modules covering introductory to advanced level content.
Insight and Dovetail are initiatives of Queensland Health, proudly delivered by Metro North Mental Health – Alcohol and Drug Service
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Australian Pharmacist
Australian Pharmacist is the official journal for Pharmaceutical Society of Australia.
Pharmaceutical Society of Australia
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Pharmacy staff, Pharmacists
Education & training
Opioid Replacement Therapy Training Program
The aim of these training programs is to provide pharmacists and pharmacy support staff with the relevant knowledge, skills and tools required to deliver a safe and patient-centred Opioid Replacement Therapy (ORT) service.
Pharmaceutical Society of Australia
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Pharmacists, Nurses, GPs, AOD & mental health workers
Advice
National Online Community of Practice
The Community of Practice is an online community designed for professionals in Australia who work with people experiencing co-occurring AOD use and mental health conditions. It serves as a platform where members can make connections, access valuable resources and engage and collaborate with other professionals to enhance their practice, and ultimately positively impact the health outcomes of people who experience these co-occurring conditions.
The University of Sydney
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Practice managers, Pharmacy staff, Pharmacists, Nurses, Medical receptionists, GPs, AOD & mental health workers
Program
Turning Point
As Australia’s leading national addiction treatment, training and research centre, Turning Point seeks to transform the way society provides treatment, specialist care and support for those affected by addiction.
Turning Point
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Practice managers, Pharmacy staff, Pharmacists, Nurses, Medical receptionists, GPs, AOD & mental health workers
Resources
Framing Addiction and Dependence: building support and reducing stigma
This message guide has been designed for people who talk about addiction or dependence in Australia, including clinicians, researchers, policymakers, people with lived experience, and others working to reduce stigma and increase support.
Turning Point
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Pharmacists, Nurses, GPs
Resources
SafeScript
SafeScript allows doctors, nurse practitioners and pharmacists to access information about their patient’s prescription history for certain high-risk medicines. This information helps clinicians make safer clinical decisions and reduces the incidence of harm, including death, from the use of pharmaceuticals.
Victorian Government
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Practice managers, Pharmacy staff, Pharmacists, Nurses, Medical receptionists, GPs, AOD & mental health workers
Resources
Harm Reduction Victoria
Harm Reduction Victoria provides peer driven and designed education and resources, practical support, information and advocacy to current and past users of illicit drugs, their supporters and the services who work with them.
Harm Reduction Victoria
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Practice managers, Pharmacy staff, Pharmacists, Nurses, Medical receptionists, GPs, AOD & mental health workers
Cultural content
The Stigma Project
Stories of Stigma and Discrimination is a participatory filmmaking project delivered by filmmaker and communications specialist Conor Ashleigh for Harm Reduction Victoria.
Harm Reduction Victoria
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Pharmacists, Nurses, GPs, AOD & mental health workers
Resources
Screening and withdrawal tools
Standardised AOD screening and withdrawal tools are crucial for early prevention, intervention and client/patient safety. The National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction at Flinders University maintains this online collection of commonly used AOD screening and assessment tools, along with a description of each tool’s utility.
Flinders University
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GPs
Groups & networks
Balint groups
Balint groups are an important, internationally established method of training general practitioners in the psychological aspects of their work. Small groups of GPs meet regularly with a trained leader to discuss clinical material from their practices, with a focus on the doctor-patient relationship.
Balint Society of Australia and New Zealand
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GPs
Women’s Alcohol Drug Service (WADS)
The Women’s Alcohol and Drug Service (WADS) is a statewide service providing specialist clinical services to pregnant women with complex substance use dependence.
The Royal Women’s Hospital
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Pharmacists, Nurses, GPs
Resources
HealthPathways Melbourne: AOD pathways and referral information
Local clinical and referral information for clinicians at the point of care in the North Western Melbourne and Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network regions.
NWMPHN and EMPHN
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Practice managers, Pharmacy staff, Pharmacists, Nurses, Medical receptionists, GPs, AOD & mental health workers
Services & organisations
AOD service finder: Victoria
Browse statewide AOD services using DirectLine’s service finder.
Turning Point
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Pharmacists, Nurses, GPs, AOD & mental health workers
Services & organisations
AOD service finder: NWMPHN
Browse AOD and dual diagnosis services commissioned by North Western Melbourne Primary Health Network.
NWMPHN
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