Completed research projects

MARC researchers conduct research relating to addiction, substance use and related behaviours. Examples of research our members have completed include:

2025

Prescription Opioid Safety Toolkit

Evidence check: Supporting the update of the NSW Clinical Guidelines for Opioid Dependence Treatment (ODT)

First step evaluation

2024

Potential health effects of higher potency (Australian Category 5) medicinal cannabis products

Enabling evidence-informed policy to address Australia' opioid crisis

Co-designing an enriched cohort study to examine periods of transition for older adults

Enhancing Pharmacist Involvement in Care in Medically Assisted Treatment for Opioid Dependence (EPIC-MATOD)

Drug harm reduction in the City of Melbourne: improving access to naloxone

2023

Health needs of people attending the Medically Supervised Injecting Room (MSIR)

Persistence of opioid use following surgical admission

2022

National Ambulance Surveillance System - Alcohol and Other Drugs

Animating alcohol culture change amongst male hospitality students and workers

Preventing harm from alcohol in women attending breast screening services

Understanding emerging opioid-related harms through improved surveillance, drug checking and information sharing systems

Mapping the Alcohol and Oher Drug patient journal to improve  treatment access and engagement in care

2021

A citizen science approach to monitoring unhealthy industry digital marketing to young people

Determining the feasibility and efficacy of Goal Management Training for improving treatment retention and outcomes during residential treatment for methamphetamine dependence

Overdose prevention information for people prescribed opioids for chronic pain - Enhancing community pharmacists capacity to respond

Working with practitioners to reduce alcohol related harm – embedding brief interventions in Victorian general practices

SWIPE away the booze

2020

Conditional welfare: A comparative case study of income management policies

Crossover Kids: Effective responses to children and young people in the youth justice and statutory Child Protection systems

Driving Health: Developing evidence-based strategies to improve the health and safety of transport workers

Trends in Pharmaceutical opioid-related harm in Victoria, 2008 -2018

The impacts of increased gambling opportunities on gaming behaviour and related harms among older Victorians

Routine Opioid Outcome Monitoring (ROOM) tools

Comparing rates and characteristics of harms across different pharmaceutical opioids

Understanding the rates and characteristics of Victorian emergency department attendances for commonly used pharmaceutical opioids

2019

Identifying and understanding men's risky drinking subcultures and settings

Pregabalin misuse-related ambulance attendances in Victoria, 2012-2017: characteristics of patients and attendances

Extent of, and children and young people's exposure to, gambling advertising in sport and non-sport TV

Addiction in the Australian legal system: A sociological analysis

Investigating the role of social cognition in hostility and violence in methamphetamine use and psychosis