February 2025 Health promotion is about supporting people to improve their health by facilitating autonomy and behaviour change. Fundamental to health promotion is building healthy public policy, creating supportive environments, strengthening community action, developing personal skills and reorienting health services. Health promotion mass media campaigns aim to provide information to individuals and communities to support

March 2024 When professional athletes test positive for drugs or use alcohol in risky ways, they aren’t like the rest of us. They risk a complex array of sanctions for a start. Drug use for performance enhancement comes with a two year ban and recreational use of illicit drugs, a three month suspension. And then

August 2024 In 2022, 2,356 people across Australia died from drug overdose, with 79.7% of these deaths being unintentional. Australia’s National Drug Strategy 2017–2026 is designed to take a balanced approach across three pillars: Demand reduction, supply reduction, and harm reduction. But Australia’s expenditure on drug policy tells a different story. Spending on law enforcement dominates Australia’s drug budget, accounting for 64.3% of spending.

February 2024 It’s summertime and many people have been working hard at the gym to achieve the ‘perfect summer body.’ With peer and parental influences alongside seasonal increases in advertisements, social media posts and mass media images showing hyper muscular or lean bodies, many are feeling the pressure to conform to idealised and often unrealistic

Alcohol is Australia’s most widely consumed drug, with 35.9% of the population drinking weekly and 5.2% daily. Among recent drinkers, about 1 in 10 are at a high risk of alcohol dependence. The health harms of alcohol consumption are often discussed, but less so is the role played by alcohol in domestic violence in Australia.