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Illicit drugs are never safe and the impact on your health and life can be harmful. Find out the risks to your health and read the Australian Government's Department of Health and Aged Care's tips for staying safe at events. Discover what you can do as parent or teacher to support teenagers and young people.

Sourced from Positive Choices, this short animation goes through some ideas for how you can say no to your friends without losing face.

This factsheet from the Department of Health Tasmania and the Department for Education, Children and Young People Tasmania features example images of vaping devices and important information that parents and teachers need to know.

Life Savers: your one-stop website for information about opioids and opioid dependence. This website provides information about opioid dependence (which may be diagnosed as Opioid Use Disorder or OUD) and about different options for treatment.

Opioid dependence and addiction can be tough. And anyone who uses any opioid can become dependent or addicted. But what is addiction, and what does that mean for a person who uses drugs? This factsheet from International Overdose Awareness Day answers these questions and more.

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Many people are prescribed medications containing opioids for treating pain, often after an injury or surgery. This factsheet from International Overdose Awareness Day discusses opioids as pain medication, and what patients need to know.

All drug overdoses are preventable. This comprehensive factsheet from Overdose Awareness Day talks about the many ways we can work together to prevent overdose from happening.

An overdose occurs when a person has more of a drug (or combination of drugs) in their body than the body can cope with. Learn about overdose risks and effects for different drugs, first aid for overdose, and much more in this factsheet from Overdose Awareness Day.

Detox@Home is a community based, medically assisted, alcohol withdrawal program. Learn more about this program and how it works directly from the Tasmanian Government Department of Health.

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Direct from Positive Choices, this factsheet is perfect for teachers and parents. This page discusses what Kava is, where it comes from, and what effects it has on the body.

Direct from Positive Choices and perfect for parents and teachers, this factsheet explains what e-cigarettes (vapes) are, what the laws are in Australia, and links to the most up-to-date legal information for each state.

What are nitazenes? What type of drug are they, and what do they do? What do we really know about this new drug? Find the answers to these questions and more from the Australian Drug Foundation.