National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre

About

Welcome to the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre. We are in our 30th year of operation and continue to expand and undertake groundbreaking research in a wide range of areas. The Centre is a hive of activity, generating new research ideas and working hard to generate research funds to implement new research projects. The Centre has been strongly supported by the Australian Government Department of Health since its inception. The original aim was to develop research in Australia and to develop research infrastructure in Australia. The overall mission of NDARC is to conduct and disseminate high quality research and related activities that increases the effectiveness of treatment and other intervention responses to alcohol and other drug related harm. In order to increase the effectiveness of the Australian treatment response to drug problems four goals need to be met: The harms to which treatment should be directed need to be known; Effective treatments should be available for responding to these harms; Those providing treatment should be aware of which treatments are effective; and Those who suffer the harms for which the treatments are intended should be made aware of ways in which to minimise harm, and of the availability of effective forms of treatment.