Drug and alcohol research in the 21st century

The National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre recently held a symposium at the University of NSW.  The abstracts and posters have been published in: Drug and alcohol research in the 21st century : critical issues and new directions.

The keynote speaker was Keith Humphreys from the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford University in Californial  His topic was "Policies for improving the quantity and quality of substance use disorder treatment" and he made the point that this treatment falls short of the ideal around the world.  It has proven easier to expand quantity rather than quality, which requires an understanding of how and why treatment works and how organisations change.