AOD resource listing


GPs and practice nurse resources

Provider: Monash University

Waiting room posters, signs, brochures, and other resources relating to alcohol and other drugs.

Care coordination and treatment planning Patient resources

Delivery format: Interactive website

Alcohol and drugs in society - harm minimisation

Provider: National Centre for Education and Training on Addictions (NCETA)

An overview of harm minimisation and harm reduction programs.

Brief intervention Harm minimisation

Delivery format: Webpage

Alcohol and other drugs - screening tools collection

Provider: National Centre for Education and Training on Addictions (NCETA)

A comprehensive collection of screening tools available in a variety of formats.

Screening tools

Delivery format: Webpage

Alcohol and other drugs - withdrawal tools collection

Provider: National Centre for Education and Training on Addictions (NCETA)

A comprehensive collection of tools to support withdrawal management.

Screening tools Withdrawal management

Delivery format: Webpage

The National Alcohol and Drug Knowledgebase

Provider: National Centre for Education and Training on Addictions (NCETA)

Substance specific information including Australians’ attitudes and behaviours to specific substances, and the consequences of use.

Alcohol Benzodiazepines Cannabis Methamphetamine Opioid deprescribing Other illicit substances

Delivery format: Website

Alcohol use in rural Australia

Provider: National Rural Health Alliance

Factsheet including strategies for reducing alcohol use and effective interventions.

Alcohol Pregnancy, homelessness, rural health

Delivery format: Article

Language matters factsheet

Provider: Network of Alcohol and other Drugs Agencies (NADA) and NSW Users and AIDS Association (NUAA)

Best-practice guidelines on how to use language to empower patients and reinforce a person-centred approach.

Language and communication

Delivery format: PDF | Webpage

How I reduced my opioid prescribing rate

Provider: newsGP

How one GP scaled back prescriptions of opioids and how they did it.

Opioid deprescribing

Delivery format: Article

5 questions to ask about using opioids for back pain or osteoarthritis

Provider: NPS MedicineWise

Patient guide to questions they can ask their healthcare professional.

Chronic non-cancer pain Patient resources

Delivery format: PDF | Webpage

If not opioids, then what?

Provider: NPS MedicineWise

Active self-management as a way to improve function and quality of life for people living with chronic non-cancer pain.

Opioid deprescribing

Delivery format: Website

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