Category: Blog
Women are still falling through the gaps. What if services were designed around women’s lives?
Alcohol or other drug use. Violence at home. Keeping children safe. Finding stable housing. Living with trauma. Meaningful work or study. Women seeking support rarely present with one clearly defined problem. Life simply doesn’t work that way. Yet still too often, the service system asks women to decide which issue comes first. Is it alcohol
The peptide boom is changing frontline practice. Is your service ready?
For years, performance and image enhancing drug (PIED) use has been closely associated with anabolic steroids and bodybuilding. That picture is changing rapidly. A new ABC News report highlights growing concern from needle and syringe programs across Australia, where services are seeing a marked increase in people seeking injecting equipment for peptides. Some services report
Overdose risk is changing, and our service system needs to catch up
When people think about overdose, they often think illicit drugs. They don’t picture their ageing mum or their neighbour or the tradie managing chronic pain. But that reality has changed. The people at greatest risk are now no longer defined by a substance or diagnosis. They have an interaction of multiple risk factors that sit
If you’re wondering whether you should adopt AI, you’re asking the wrong question
The majority of Australians believe that AI will improve healthcare quality. But leading systems engineer Professor Rashina Hoda says nearly half feel anxious about it, and they want transparency, accountability and regulation 360Edge has just returned to the office after a team offsite on AI. The conversations we had over those two days reinforced the
The National Drug Strategy: When the evidence says one thing and policy does another
A moment of opportunity There’s a lot happening in the alcohol and other drug sector in Australia right now. The current National Drug Strategy is due to expire this year, the Australian Government Drug and Alcohol Program is about to go through recommissioning, and several states and territories are developing new strategies of their own. This
Protecting service quality when funding is tight
In 2025, 4,550 people were waiting to access alcohol and other drug treatment on any given day in Victoria. Despite a record state budget investment in AOD services this year, the wait time crisis won’t resolve any time soon. For leaders in the AOD sector, this is the reality of the operating environment. Demand is
