Theses

Studying for a postgraduate degree is strongly encouraged at NDARC. Nadia Solowij was the first NDARC student to be awarded her PhD in 1994. Since that time 25 PhD and three Masters theses have been submitted and awarded. These are listed below:

Baker, A. (1996). Motivational interviewing and relapse prevention interventions for HIV risk reduction among injecting drug users.

Burns, L. (2004). Comorbidity between alcohol use disorders, anxiety and depression.

Cooke, M. (1999). Barriers to the systematic provision of smoking cessation education during pregnancy.

Copeland, J. (1995). The development of a model of treatment for women with alcohol and other drug problems.

Day, C. (2005). Understanding the relationship between Hepatitis C infection and heroin use in Australia: epidemics, drug markets and methodologies.

Degenhardt, L. (2001). Comorbidity between substance use and mental health in Australia: Relationships of alcohol, tobacco and cannabis use with other substance use and mental disorders.

Dolan, K. (1997). HIV In Australian Prisons: Transmission, risk behaviours and prevention.

Donnelly, N. (1993). Analysis issues in a general practitioner based randomised controlled trial.

Donnelly, N. (2006). The use of interrupted time series analysis to evaluate the impact of Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme policies on drug utilisation in Australia.

Hando, J. (1997). Patterns of illicit psychostimulant use in Australia and correlates of harm.

Kaye, S. (2003). Injecting and non-injecting cocaine use in Sydney, Australia: prevalence, patterns and associated harms.

Kelaher, M. (1995). Decision-making and HIV risk behaviour among gay men and injecting drug users.

Kimber, J. (2006). Role of the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre in reducing injecting drug use-related harm: Evaluating accessibility, utilization, coverage and selected heath impacts.

Lawrinson, P. (2005). Development and piloting of a treatment outcome monitoring system for opioid maintenance pharmacotherapy services in New South Wales, Australia.

Lewis, L. (1994). The inner Sydney gay dance party culture in the context of the HIV/AIDS pandemic: a qualitative analysis.

Martin, G. (2008). Brief intervention for cannabis use among young people.

McKetin, R. (1999). Cognitive functioning and psychological morbidity among illicit amphetamine users.

Mills, K. (2006). Post traumatic stress disorder among people with heroin dependence.

Proudfoot, H. (2007). DSM-IV Alcohol Use Disorders in Australia: Validity, Prevalence and Treatment seeking.

Reid, A. (2002). Cannabis use and risk perception among Australian youth.

Rees, V.W. (1996). Cue reactivity in tobacco smokers: the role of Pavlovian conditioning in drug dependence phenomena.

Ross, J. (1999). Benzodiazepine use among heroin users in Sydney, Australia.

Sannibale, C. (1996). An evaluation of Cloninger's typology of alcohol abuse.

Solowij, N. (1995). Event-related potential indices of cognitive functioning in long term cannabis users.

Spooner, C. (2000). The nature and treatment of psychoactive substance use disorders among adolescents.

Swift, W. (1997). A multivariate analysis of gender differences in alcohol and hypnosedative use: 1989-90 national health survey.

Swift, W. (1999). Patterns and correlates of cannabis dependence.

Topp, L. (1999). The nature of amphetamine dependence syndrome.

Vogl, L. (2007). Climate Schools: alcohol module - the feasibility and efficacy of a universal school-based computerised prevention program for alcohol misuse related harms.

Ward, J. (1995). Factors influencing the effectiveness of methadone maintenance treatment: An evaluation of change and innovation in the methadone program in New South Wales, Australia 1985-1995.

Williamson, A. (2006). The effect of cocaine use on outcomes for the treatment of heroin dependence in Sydney, Australia.