Events

World’s Largest Overdose Prevention Training

Port Melbourne Town Hall 333 Bay Street, Port Melbourne

Designed to coincide with International Overdose Awareness week, The World’s Largest Overdose Prevention Training is the coming together of 13 concerned organisations who saw an opportunity to help prevent overdose.  Our aim was both to honour those lost and to provide members of the community with the skills to recognise and prevent an overdose death

Free

Medication Assisted Treatment for Opioid Dependence (MATOD) – Module 2

RACGP House 100 Wellington Pde, East Melbourne, Victoria

RACGP Victoria is offering an education session on MATOD for prescribers with a need to prescribe pharmacotherapy to more than 5 patients with opioid dependence. Attendees must have completed the online Module 1 and be registered with AHPRA prior to registering for this session. This activity is funded by the Victorian Government. This education is

International Overdose Awareness Day Bendigo

Bendigo Library 259 Hargreaves St, Bendigo

International Overdose Awareness Day aims to raise awareness of overdose and reduce the stigma of a drug-related death. It is also an opportunity to stimulate discussion about evidence-based overdose prevention and drug policy. International Overdose Awareness Day acknowledges the grief felt by families and friends remembering those who have died or suffered permanent injury due

Free

6th Annual World’s Largest Overdose Prevention Training

Online

6th Annual World’s Largest Overdose Prevention Training   The World’s Largest Overdose Prevention Training held each year is an opportunity to honour lives lost to overdose by learning what an overdose looks like and what actions to take when one occurs.    Register here:  https://www.trybooking.com/CBMBE  Join us on August 30th for a deep dive into overdose: what

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Tuesdays with Nexus 16 April 2024

Online

Topic: ‘Persistent Pain - making sense of it all’ Speaker: Dr. Harry Eeman, Clinical Director, Barbara Walker Centre for Pain Management, St Vincent’s Hospital Tuesdays with Nexus is a monthly interactive online session. It is an invitation to connect professionally and share information. Register for Tuesdays at Nexus at the link below.

Free

VSURF: Tracking the highs and lows: Methamphetamine and heroin price and purity changes in Melbourne, Victoria between 2009 and 2020 with Dr Kasun Rathnayake

Online webinar

The Victorian Substance Use Research Forum (VSURF) are pleased to invite you to our *online* October webinar where Dr Kasun Rathnayake from the Burnet Institute will be presenting work examining  changes in the price and purity of methamphetamine and heroin in Melbourne, Victoria between 2009 and 2020. Please email vicsubstanceuseresearchforum@gmail.com to be added to the

Free