Clinical resources
Queensland's alcohol and other drugs treatment services use a range of standards and clinical guidelines depending on the practice and treatment setting.
- General guidelines
- Drugs
- Quitline
- Residential care
- Youth
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
- Queensland
- Other organisations
- Statistics and research
General guidelines
- DrugInfo
- Alcohol and other drugs: a handbook for health professionals: an overview of key health and medical issues arising from the use of alcohol and other drugs.
- Brief Intervention for Substance Use (WHO) (PDF, 1.1 MB)
- Can I Ask...? Alcohol and Other Drugs Clinicians Guide to Addressing Domestic and Family Violence (NCETA) (PDF, 1.26 MB)
- Counselling Guidelines: Alcohol and other drug issues (WA Drug and Alcohol Office)
- Drug and alcohol clinical supervision guidelines (NSW Health)
- Guidelines for psychosocial interventions (NSW Health)
- Management of Patients with Psychostimulant Toxicity (NDS)
- National Comorbidity Clinical Guidelines (NDARC)
- Guidelines on the management of co-occurring alcohol and other drug and mental health guidelines
- NSW Health drug and alcohol psychosocial interventions: Professional practice guidelines (PDF, 901KB)
- Consensus-Based Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Volatile Substance Use in Australia
- Nice Clinical Guidelines (UK): Drug misuse - Psychosocial interventions
- Public Health England (UK): Alcohol and drug misuse prevention and treatment guidance
Drugs
- Australian National Council on Drugs (ANCD) research papers and position statements
- National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre tools and resources
- Brief Cognitive Intervention for Regular Amphetamine Users (Australian Department of Health)
- National Clinical Guidelines for Managing Drug use during Pregnancy (NSW Health)
- Drug misuse and dependence: UK guidelines on clinical management.
Quitline
Residential care
- Clinical Guidelines for the care of persons with comorbid mental illness and substance use disorders in acute care settings (NSW Health)
- Clinical guidelines for the provision of residential treatment (NSW Health) (PDF, 755 KB)
Youth
- Youth Support and Advocacy Service (YSAS)
- Dovetail Youth alcohol and other drugs Good Practice Guides
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
- The Standard on Culturally Secure Practice (Alcohol and other drugs sector)
- Working Together 2nd Edition: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health and Wellbeing Principals and Practice
- Protocols for the delivery of social and emotional wellbeing and mental health care in Indigenous settings: Guidelines for health workers, clinicians, consumers and carers
- National alcohol treatment guidelines for Indigenous Australians (Australian Department of Health)
- Guidelines for providing mental health first aid to an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person
Queensland
- Queensland Health Dual Diagnosis Clinical Guidelines
- Queensland Opioid Treatment Program: Clinical Guidelines
- Queensland Needle and Syringe Program policy manual guidelines (PDF, 404KB)
- Queensland Maternity and Neonatal Guidelines
Other organisations
- Australian Therapeutic Community Standards
- Turning Point
- DrugInfo
- Australian Drug Information Network (ADIN)
Statistics and research
- National opioid pharmacotherapy statistics annual data (NOPSAD) collection
- Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services National Minimum Data Set (AODTS NMDS)
- Queensland Minimum Data Set for Needle and Syringes Programs
- Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS)
- Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System (EDRS)
- National Drugs Strategy Household Surveys (NDSHS)
- The health of Queenslanders report: Chief Health Officer
Last updated: 25 October 2016
