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This  is a global event held on 31 August each year and aims to raise awareness of overdose and reduce the stigma of a drug-related death. It also acknowledges the grief felt by families and friends remembering those who have died or had a permanent injury because of drug overdose.

International Overdose Awareness Day spreads the message that the tragedy of overdose death is preventable.

Find out what is happening in your regions of Australasia.  Click here.

Like to know more?

Download  Australia’s Annual Overdose Report 2018. According to the Pennington Institute  ‘it  reveals that accidental overdose continues to be a significant cause of death in Australia.  The continued growth in overdose deaths is linked to highly potent drugs, many of which are available through prescription, such as pharmaceutical opioids and benzodiazepines. Illegal drugs such as heroin and crystal methamphetamine (‘ice’) also contribute to a significant number of fatalities. The use of multiple drugs concurrently (including alcohol) is common and increases the risk of overdose’.

Click here to get access to the full report.

Unless otherwise indicated, consent to download the following presentations has been provided by speakers at the DANA 2018 Australasian ‘It Starts with Us’ Conference:

International keynote speakers

Who is that nurse?  Carmel Clancy ( you tube accompaniment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsjNXWIW28w)

The US Opioid Crisis   Dana Murphy-Parker

SBIRT+RM  Katherine Fornilli

Local speakers

Experiences of online counselling  Michael Savic

Gambling in an AOD Context  Jane Oakes

Failure to decline: older Australians and alcohol   Sarah Callinan

Integrating hepatitis C treatment in a regional setting – The Cairns Experience   Morag Goodinson

Parenting and AOD Use Is it a bad mix?   Sally Garson

Performance and image-enhancing drugs   Scott  Griffiths

Transcending Burnout: Strategies for avoiding Severe Role Stress in AOD Nurses   Alistair Ross

Reflections on the Melbourne Injecting Drug User Cohort Study   Paul Dietze

Annual  Adams-de Crespigny-Harvey Oration

How can we achieve change in practice and policies   Margaret  Hamilton

Papers from submitted abstracts

Smoking? that’s not important right now   Amy Faden

It’s not Just About Mental Health: Co-morbidities in a Cohort of Patients Prescribed Opioid Agonist Treatment by a Nurse Practitioner   Stephen Ling Tony Gill Adrian Dunlop

Cannabis as Harm Reduction   Marguerite White

Hepatitis C treatment in the NSP setting   Wendy Sue Forder

You should write that down!   David Dwyer

Finding the Diamond in the Rough: Nurse led outreach at an NSP   Ali Loom

Pending

• Lessons learned from AOD sector reform: Mr Sam Biondo:
• This is where our peeps are at: hospital drug and alcohol consultation liaison services:  Apo Demirkol
• Discovery and development of new therapeutics for addictions derived from cannabis and oxytocin: Iain McGregor
• The Rainbow Connection: Anne Carroll
• Winners and Loser in American Drug Policy:  Katherine Fornilli

In May this year DANA emailed all members  with a document supplied by the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)  and a request for feedback to be included in a DANA response.

DANA has now prepared its response and will be submitting it on-line on Friday 24^th 2018.

The final document is available here to download for any final comments: WHO Feedback from DANA

Please send any comments to dana.mail2access@gmail.com no later than the close of business on Thursday 23^rd August 2018.

The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA)  has opened public consultation on a proposed endorsement for registered nurses to prescribe scheduled medicines in a prescribing partnership model.

Associate Professor Lynette Cusack RN who is the Chair of the NMBA tells us that ‘the proposed model is evidence-based and has been developed in consultation with nursing stakeholders, governments and consumers over several years’.

Read the consultation documents and have your say about this initiative. Click here.

We’d love your feedback about  the DANA 2018 Australasian ‘It Starts with Us’ Conference

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The DANA Conference Delegate’s Tool Kit was sent by email on Wednesday afternoon July 18^th 2018,  but sometimes emails just don’t get through.

In case you haven’t received your Delegate’s Tool Kit you can access it at this link http://bit.ly/delegateskit

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(Look for Lucinda at the DANA Help Desk if you need some additional support to get you tweeting).

The full info-graphic is available here to download…

DANA Twitter infographic

Last chance to register #DANAconf2018

Do it now! Click here http://bit.ly/DANAlastchance
(and don’t forget to register for networking drinks)

The AGM will be held on Friday July 27th 2018 at Storey Hall, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Swanston Street, Melbourne, Victoria.

A light breakfast will be available prior to the meeting at 7:00 am. Please advise if you are attending for catering purposes.  Send an email to project.officer@danaonline.org

The annual report, the agenda, a proxy voting form and the minutes from last year’s AGM are available below.

DANA AGM 2018 Annual Report

AGM Agenda

Proxy Voting Form 2018 AGM

Minutes DANA AGM 11.08.2017

Closing  soon…

We want stories from AOD nurses, about AOD nursing.  We want stories that paint a picture of what we do and why we do it.

Every story will be published on the new DANA website (right now it’s quietly undergoing an upgrade).

Find out more…http://bit.ly/DANAwriters