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Anex Bulletin
The Anex Bulletin is the Australian Needle and Syringe Program (NSP) sector’s quarterly magazine, published by Anex. The only magazine of its type in the world, the Anex Bulletin canvasses a range of NSP-related issues and keeps harm reduction workers up to date with new information, research findings and emerging issues for the sector. First published in December 2002, a total of 3,000 copies of each edition are distributed across Australia.
Contact Anex on ph: 03 9486 6399 or email: info@anex.org.au to request copies of the current edition, or back editions, of the Anex Bulletin.
Volume 6: Edition 4
- Notes from the dismal valley: NSP IN ASIA
Volume 6: Edition 3
- COAG Funding – The Lifeline for NSPs
Volume 6: Edition 2
- Drugs in Regional and Rural Australia
Volume 6: Edition 1
- 360° Take on Illegal Drugs and Mental Health
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Volume 5: Edition 4
- Pharmacies and blood-borne virus prevention
Volume 5: Edition 3
- NSPs and Innovation
Volume 5: Edition 2
- 350 Tackle Amphetamines
Volume 5: Edition 1
- The New Nurse
Volume 4: Edition 4
- Hepatitis C: The Roads Ahead
- Teaching Safety: Hep C Education
- Positive or Negative? - Responses to Diagnoses
- Epidemic in the Wings: Hepatitis B
- Injecting Risk Reduction
- Prevention: Pushing the Boundaries
- Drug substitution therapies for hepatitis C
- Profile: Professor Robert Batey
Volume 4: Edition 3
- Getting a grip on mental health
- Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
- Dual Diagnosis
- NSPs and mental illness
- Drug-induced psychosis
- Taking care of NSP workers
- Meth Psychosis: Myth or Meth?
- Developing a youth AOD social model of health
Volume 4: Edition 2 - Special Edition – Law Enforcement and Needle and Syringe Programs
- Breaking down barriers: NSP and Police
- Profile – Superintendent, Frank Hansen, Manager, Drug and Alcohol Coordination Unit, NSW Police
- Partners: Law Enforcement and Health – a look at developing and maintaining partnerships between health and law enforcement at all levels
- Jail-Bird Flu – combating diseases in prisons
- Keeping the faith: NSPs in religious environments
- Sharp Smart – focusing on ways NSPs can help clients find solutions to their legal problems
- Let’s be partners – an international perspective on NSP relations with law enforcement
- State of the Nation – a state-by-state look at the laws relating to the operation of NSPs
- Punish or Divert? – a look at how the COAG Illicit Drug Diversion Initiative works
- Drug Courts
- Where can I refer my client for legal advice?
- Beyond Health Harms – exploring the meaning of ‘harm’ in the context of drug use
- Bonding with the Cops – tips for building good relationships with police
Volume 4: Edition 1
- Doing time: drug use in Australian prisons
- Anex has changes its name… to Anex
- Sharp Smart – looking at the ongoing challenge of finding a way to engage injecting drug users who don’t use primary NSPs
- Anex turns 10
- Life on the outside – helping clients who have been recently released from prison
- The State of the Nation – needle and syringe distribution points by setting
- Prison release support systems
- Methadone added to list of essential medicines
- Profile – Paul Dessauer
Volume 3: Edition 4
- Issues Management – case study: North Richmond Community Health Centre
- First public hepatitis C infection from needle stick injury
- Sharp Smart – what do we mean by a “dirty hit”?
- NSW statewide NSP workers’ meeting
- Thousands support Overdose Awareness Day
- Issues management – how you can manage your issues
- Profile – Valan Phoenix
- Promoting excellence in harm reduction
Volume 3: Edition 3
- Hundreds attend Anex Harm Reduction Conference
- Sharp Smart – injecting buprenorphine
- Drugs at Work – Anex Harm Reduction Conference 2005
- Anex Awards for Excellence in Harm Reduction 2005
- Redfern Update
- Understanding hepatitis C
- Profile – Yvonne Lumsden
Volume 3: Edition 2
- Syringe dispensing machines – highlighting the issue of access to sterile injecting equipment after-hours
- Sharp Smart – ‘Booty bumping, Methadone and pregnancy and Antibodies and PCR
- Dispensing machines – another perspective
- Supply, demand and harm reduction strategies in Australian Prisons - implementation, cost and evaluation
- Pregnancy and drug use
Volume 3: Edition 1
- Anex Harm Reduction Conference 2004
- Sharp Smart – oral health promotion
- Referral practices and outcomes
- It’s one thing to know your rights, another to act on them…
- National NSP meeting 2004
- From “needle van” to health centre – Redfern and ‘The Block’
- Hospital-based NSP
- Opinion piece – NSPs and opportunity (Greg Perry)
Volume 2: Edition 4
- Primary Health Care – a term that gets used a lot but what does it really mean, especially for marginalised, disadvantaged and disenfranchised populations?
- Sharp Smart – Cultural beliefs and practices on overdose, How many injectors worldwide?, Motherhood and illicit drug use and A variance of perspectives
- The practice of referral
- Highlights from the 15th International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm – by Andrew Doupe
- Opinion piece – Pragmatism and NSP (John Ryan, CEO, Anex)
- Profile – Link Youth Health Service, Hobart
Volume 2: Edition 3
- How do you rate? Evaluating NSP programs
- Beating the Bush Telegraph – providing anonymous and confidential services in rural, remote or regional communities
- Dealing with agro
- Polydrug use
- Opinion piece (Major Brian Watters AO)
- Profile – Northern Territory AIDS and Hepatitis Council
Volume 2: Edition 2
- Building trust – the key to diverse populations
- Managing the media
- Recapping retractable technology
- AIDS in Africa
- Sharp Smart: What’s the point - a look at the different kinds of injecting equipment dispensed through NSPs
- NSP veteran dies – news that researcher Dr Margaret MacDonald had died after a short illness came as a great shock to the NSP sector
- Profile – Cheng Nguyen
- HIV transmission rates in injecting drug using populations in selected OECD countries
Volume 2: Edition 1
- Focus on community relations – a look at developing positive relationships with the broader community
- Opinion piece – Hepatitis C behind bars (Kate Dolan)
- The Rapid Assessment Model – a research tool designed to get to information fast
- Sharp Smart – Ice, Injecting anxiety and Internet virus hoax
- Practice, politics, policy and people – seventh Harm Reduction Conference a success
- Drug availability trends – 2001-2002
- Profile – a look at NSP service provision in Roma, Qld
June 2003: Edition 4
- Strengthening partnerships – 14th International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm
- Opinion piece – David Crosbie provides insights into the working of the media
- A tale of two decades – a look at where it all began for NSPs in Australia
- Training and workforce development
- COAG supporting measures relating to NSP funded projects
- Profile – Clive Aspin
May 2003: Edition 3
- Steps to Success – tips on providing a successful secondary NSP outlet
- Opinion piece (John Ryan, CEO, Anex)
- Preventing unnecessary vein damage
- Council of Australian Governments – NSP innovations
- Profile – Olga Anderson
April 2003: Edition 2
- Keeping up the NSP hum – marketing and promoting the public benefits of NSPs
- Opinion piece – Back to basics (Anne Madden)
- The ins and outs of safe disposal
- NSP innovations roll out – a snapshot of the projects and developments arising from the funding under the Illicit Drug Diversion Package – Supporting Measures relating to NSP
- The methamphetamine market in Australia
- States of syringe disposal
- Letter to the Editor – Preloaded Preventative Syringes
- Profile – Ruth Southern
December 2002: Edition 1
- NSP savings bonanza – a look at the findings of the Return on Investment in Needle and Syringe Programs in Australia study, commissioned by the Australian Government
- Hi-tech needle fear fix – the development of retractable syringe technology is on the agenda
- NSP innovations roll out – a snapshot of the projects and developments arising from the funding under the Illicit Drug Diversion Package – Supporting Measures relating to NSP
- National networking frenzy – the inaugural National Meeting of NSP Workers marked a significant moment in the history of NSP in Australia
- Lifting your game – steroids
- Profile – Jacinta Smith
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