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Guidelines and resources

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Useful Resources

• Clinicians Knowledge Network - Drug Information
• Health Statistics Centre - Publications
• Health Information Directory - Fact Sheets
• HealthInsite - Health Information
• Multicultural Health - Information for Health Workers

Newsletters

• Health Matters - Queensland Health
• Drug Prevention Network Newsletter Australian Drug Foundation's DrugInfo Clearinghouse
• Centreline Newsletter National Drug Research Institute

General Drug Information and Resources

• Alcohol and Other Drugs: A Handbook for Health Professionals
• Australian Alcohol Guidelines
• Alcohol and Drug Service Library
  The Alcohol and Drug Service Library is the principal specialist library on alcohol and other drugs in Queensland. In addition to providing reader services and supporting its collection, it offers inter-library loans, bibliographic database searching, and publishes a current awareness listing (ADLIB).
• Alcohol and Pregnancy and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: Resources for Health Professionals
  These resources have been developed to support health professionals to address the issue of alcohol use in pregnancy with women. The resources include: Alcohol and Pregnancy and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: a Resource for Health Professionals, Alcohol and Pregnancy and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: a Factsheet for Health Professionals and No Alcohol in Pregnancy is the Safest Choice (wallet card for women)
  The resources can be viewed and downloaded from: http://www.ichr.uwa.edu.au/alcoholandpregnancy
• Alcohol and Drug Information Network (ADIN)
  This website is a Commonwealth Government funded website managed by the Australian Drug Foundation. Its purpose is to link people to a comprehensive range of websites and information resources on alcohol and other drugs. The ADIN website currently links to and searches across 450 quality assured alcohol and drug related websites. It also links to key Australian and international databases.
• DrugInfo Clearinghouse
  The DrugInfo Clearinghouse is a service provided by the Australian Drug Foundation to interpret and disseminate information on drug prevention. The service functions as a drug prevention network, providing easy access to information about alcohol and other drugs, and drug prevention. Professionals and members of the general community can use the service as their first port of call for information from local, national and international sources.
• National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre
  This website for drug information resources, fact sheets, monographs, and reports.
• National Centre for Education and Training in Addiction
  This website for alcohol and other drug resources, research reports and tools.
• ATOD Treatment Workers - ATOD Clinical Guidelines and Publications
• ATOD Prevention Workers - ATOD Prevention Resources

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Tobacco Smoking Cessation

Smoking Cessation Guidelines for Australian General Practice

Helping Smokers Quit: A Health Professionals Guide to Brief Intervention
This guide provides health professionals with effective strategies for identifying smokers and assisting them to make a quit attempt. The guide provides a simple five step process (the 5As), for quit smoking brief intervention.

This double-sided chart provides a simple five step process (the 5As), for quit smoking brief intervention. Summary information about the stages of change, nicotine replacement therapy and quit planning is also included Resource order form | Quitline referral form

SmokeCheck brief intervention training for health workers.  Find out more at Prevention Programs.

Information about Drugs and Poisons for Health Professionals

Information for various health care professionals about how the Health (Drugs and Poisons) Regulation, 1996 as it applies to various health care professionals.

• Dentists - What Dentists need to know
• Nurses - What Nurses need to know
• Pharmacists - A quick reference guide for pharmacists
• Veterinary Surgeons - What veterinary surgeons need to know

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