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There are many ways in which researchers & research organisations can engage with Croakey and public interest journalism to translate your research.
Follow this thread for some examples – AB.
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Follow this thread for some examples – AB.
#CroakeyFundingDrive #ResearchTranslation
As @MelissaSweetDr has tweeted this morning, one of her favourite stories of #ResearchTranslation is how @AKction2 go about it...with an important focus on involving patients in the research from the beginning! AB
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Don't miss this report about the journey, work & outcomes of the AKCTION program.
The report is an example of Croakey Professional Services & editorial working with researchers – AB.
#CroakeyHealthMedia #ResearchTranslation
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The report is an example of Croakey Professional Services & editorial working with researchers – AB.
#CroakeyHealthMedia #ResearchTranslation
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Earlier this week I joined 300 people at #RethinkAddiction in #CBR
It was an opportunity to listen & learn from people who had a lived experience of alcohol, other drug or gambling addiction.
There were so many lessons.
Here are just a few.
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It was an opportunity to listen & learn from people who had a lived experience of alcohol, other drug or gambling addiction.
There were so many lessons.
Here are just a few.
fare.org.au/lessons-from-t…
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On the importance of lived experience, speaking out & being heard
‘My vulnerability creates a pathway for others to connect their humanness because they feel seen & heard.’ @seselja_k
‘If it’s not said, it never happened & no one can get support.’ @Selba_G_Luka
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‘My vulnerability creates a pathway for others to connect their humanness because they feel seen & heard.’ @seselja_k
‘If it’s not said, it never happened & no one can get support.’ @Selba_G_Luka
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On responsibility & culpability
‘Big alcohol is undoubtedly the Goliath in this country & we the people r the David…but who won…’ @SITC_CEO_Shanna
‘The machines r designed to addict. This is govt-sanctioned abuse. I’m not the problem, gambling is the problem.’ @ahbard
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‘Big alcohol is undoubtedly the Goliath in this country & we the people r the David…but who won…’ @SITC_CEO_Shanna
‘The machines r designed to addict. This is govt-sanctioned abuse. I’m not the problem, gambling is the problem.’ @ahbard
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. @DavidCampbell73 says was on air last week, could feel anxiety levels rise. His instinct, with 20+ years on stage, is to mask it, make more jokes, keep talking during commercial breaks so crew can't tell: "keep juggling"......#RethinkAddiction
This experience in the past would have been an excuse to drink for @DavidCampbell73, who says addiction, abuse, trauma and poverty were issues in his family background. "We were chaos." #RethinkAddiction 
#RethinkAddiction: Improving treatment and support session, with Adrian Dunlop @RANZCP, Heather Pickard former CEO @WeAreSHARC, Melanie Walker @TheAADC, @SArunogiri @RANZCP
Have you ever wavered? Heather Pickard said she chose a 'non expert response' to people in distress, to stay working in/with a community she received her own support from: she didn't want to be a client anymore, she wanted to be the CEO #RethinkAddiction
Mental health reform in Vic: Pickard says thinking around lived/living experience workforces "fills my heart with absolute joy". But it's a valuable part of the picture, not everything. We need to ensure reform is balanced, sustainable, compassionate, real #RethinkAddiction
Next session at #RethinkAddiction: Reclaiming Australia’s role as a global leader in harm reduction
#RethinkAustralia (pls note change in panellists)
"We know what we do is powerful and it works and we have to keep doing it. We have to recognise what we have in common and build on that. To do this more successfully we need funding & recognition of what we do...." Mary Harrod #RethinkAddiction
#RethinkAddiction opens for Day 2 - "where the rubber hits the road, where yesterday's lived experience becomes a campaign", says moderator @FaineJon
We start today with video address from @Emma4Dobell who acknowledges #RethinkAddiction is being held on the traditional lands of the Ngunnawal & Ngambri peoples. She talks of her background in health care, working as a pharmacist for 20+ years, and is keen to hear the conf calls.
"Gambling harm, two words I never thought would be part of my story," says @seselja_k, in the opening keynote for #RethinkAddiction Day 2. Says the stigma and shame fostered by the industry has contributed to growing harm, 'the problem gambler'.
Morning, from @mariemcinerney, getting set for the second/final day of #RethinkAddiction after powerful stories of lived experience throughout yesterday. Today we'll hear in the opening session from @seselja_k, who featured in our preview: croakey.org/how-the-system…
Today's #RethinkAddiction sessions will also feature , @AngeleneBruce, @JodieMatar & @DavidCampbell73 and many others, and dive into treatment/care, prevention/public health responses, and harm reduction. See the program: conferenceco.eventsair.com/rethink-addict…
We will be live-tweeting today's #RethinkAddiction discussions, and you can also follow @AlisonSBarrett @MelissaSweetDr and @rethinkadd over at @WePublicHealth. Please note also that some speakers may request on personal grounds that their contributions are not tweeted/reported.
Final panel session now for Day 1 #RethinkAddiction, where we will be hearing about addiction issues for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people - "one of the most important issues that this conference and the nation faces," says @FaineJon
#RethinkAddiction session
Hearing first from Steven Bastian, a Yorta Yorta man who benefited from a drug diversion program and works as a youth worker and Indigenous mentor (read about him here abc.net.au/news/2021-08-2…) #RethinkAddiction
Afternoon sessions at #RethinkAddiction are beginning with a panel discussion on the impact of criminalisation (virtual view!), led by @FaineJon
. @baden_2002 talking about being locked up re drugs issues, on release the pandemic loomed and all his supports dropped away. "I wasn't doing too well." His mother sought support & police were called - "I was treated as a criminal and it didn't go well." #RethinkAddiction
It's @mariemcinerney on deck today, ready to live tweet Day 1 of #RethinkAddiction with @AlisonSBarrett. Program here: conferenceco.eventsair.com/rethink-addict…
I'll be attending virtually: tweeting from Melbourne/Naarm, on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nations
I'll be attending virtually: tweeting from Melbourne/Naarm, on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nations
#RethinkAddiction - standing by for Day 1 to begin
Here's our preview of #RethinkAddiction, with thanks to @seselja_k for sharing her experience and calls for action on the commercial determinants of health - with stigma, shame, vested interests among many barriers to proper treatment/care of addiction croakey.org/how-the-system…
We're counting down to this week's #RethinkAddiction convention: focus on big barriers to treatment of alcohol/other drugs/gambling addiction, due to stigma, lack of national focus, vested interests...
See our preview: croakey.org/how-the-system…
@rethinkadd @dan_lubman
See our preview: croakey.org/how-the-system…
@rethinkadd @dan_lubman
. @rethinkadd says addiction hugely misunderstood in Aust, incl by health sector.
"One in 4 will struggle with alcohol, other drugs or gambling in their lifetime, yet many will wait years, even decades, to get the help they need...."
#RethinkAddiction
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"One in 4 will struggle with alcohol, other drugs or gambling in their lifetime, yet many will wait years, even decades, to get the help they need...."
#RethinkAddiction
rethinkaddiction.org.au
Croakey's @mariemcinerney @AlisonSBarrett & @MelissaSweetDr will be covering #RethinkAddiction for the Croakey Conference News Service
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