The National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction (NCETA), with support of the Australian Government Department of Health, is pleased to announce the launch of Australia’s first comprehensive online National Alcohol and Drug Knowledgebase. The Knowledgebase gives health practitioners, researchers, policy makers and the general public a valuable new tool to help them address alcohol-related issues. It provides a concise and user-friendly way of accessing the vast amount of information in existing alcohol-related datasets that cover health, social welfare, law enforcement and education issues. In the first instance, the Knowledgebase addresses alcohol and in the near future other drug topics will also be covered.
The Alcohol Section of the Knowledgebase contains more than 130 frequently asked questions (FAQs) about:
- Consumption patterns
- Alcohol use and the workplace
- Alcohol-related harms
- The impact of alcohol consumption on crime and violence
- Treatment
- Young people.
In developing the Alcohol Section of the Knowledgebase, NCETA sourced all of the available alcohol-related datasets produced in Australia and as new data becomes available the Knowledgebase will be revised and updated to ensure that it is current and reliable.
Over time, NCETA will expand the Knowledgebase to include information about a range of illicit and pharmaceutical drugs.
The Knowledgebase can be accessed from: http://nadk.flinders.edu.au/ and also from the NCETA homepage: www.nceta.flinders.edu.au