AOD resource listing


Tame the beast

Provider: Tame the Beast

Video resources for patients about understanding pain.

Chronic non-cancer pain Opioid deprescribing Patient resources

Delivery format: Video | Website

Managing your pain safely with opioids

Provider: Australian Government Department of Health

Patient guide to managing pain and opioid medicines.

Chronic non-cancer pain Patient resources

Delivery format: PDF

Opioid tapering algorithm

Provider: Australian Government Department of Health

Fact sheet on the safe tapering of opioids.

Chronic non-cancer pain Opioid deprescribing Withdrawal management

Delivery format: PDF

Alcohol Treatment Guidelines, 2021 edition

Provider: The University of Sydney

These guidelines aim to provide up-to-date, evidence-based information to clinicians on available treatments for people with alcohol problems and are largely directed towards individual clinicians in practice.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People Alcohol Care coordination and treatment planning Clinical guidelines Custodial health LGBTQIA+ Pregnancy, homelessness, rural health Withdrawal management Young people

Delivery format: PDF | Webpage

Opioids: Communication videos

Provider: NPS MedicineWise

A video series outlining how to have effective conversations with patients about opioids and deprescribing.

Motivational interviewing Opioid deprescribing

Delivery format: Video

Supporting social prescribing in primary care by linking people to local assets: A realist view

Provider: BMC Medicine

What to consider when establishing or running a social prescribing connector scheme to optimise patient outcomes.

Care coordination and treatment planning

Delivery format: PDF | Webpage

The quiet crisis you haven't heard about

Provider: Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)

Background briefing: Buprenorphine in the prison system.

Custodial health

Delivery format: Video

Brief interventions for alcohol and other drug use

Provider: Australian Prescriber

An overview of the key frameworks that GPs can use to do a brief intervention, the types of brief interventions for each substance, and how to incorporate them into regular clinical practice.

Brief intervention Harm minimisation Screening tools

Delivery format: Article

Evolve Top-5 recommendations on low-value practices

Provider: Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP)

The top 5 list of low-value practices in addiction medicine from the Australasian Chapter of Addiction Medicine (AChAM).

Care coordination and treatment planning Opioid deprescribing Withdrawal management

Delivery format: Publication

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