The Alcohol and Other Drugs Knowledge Centre has released the recording of our recent webinar titled: What do we know about the impacts of cannabis use in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander communities? Skip ahead to specific sections of the webinar using the links below.
This webinar was presented by Dr. Julia Butt from the National Drug Research Institute (NDRI) at Curtin University, Western Australia (WA).
Information provided in the webinar includes: •
- health risks associated with cannabis
- prevalence of cannabis use
- what we know about patterns of cannabis use
- impacts on individuals’ health and wellbeing
- impacts on communities • impacts on workforce and organisations
- what else we need to know.
Dr. Julia Butt is a Clinical Psychologist and Senior Research Fellow at NDRI and a member of the Aboriginal Research Team. Dr. Butt is currently a Healthway Senior Fellow looking at the co-use of tobacco and cannabis.
The webinar runs for approximately 41 minutes.
- 2:11 What the webinar will cover
- 3:06 What is cannabis?
- 4:24 Health risks associated with cannabis use
- 7:19 Social effects of cannabis use
- 7:46 Cannabis in Australia
- 9:17 Prevalence of cannabis use
- 14:49 The pattern of cannabis use
- 17:13 Impacts of cannabis use broadly on health and wellbeing
- 19:51 Impacts of cannabis on community
- 22:34 Impacts of cannabis on health care providers and health care workers
- 24:37 What do we know about cannabis use?
- 26:02 What do we need to know to move forward?
- 27:42 Julia’s contact details & question time
- 39:19 The AOD Knowledge Centre website
- 40:04 AOD Knowledge Centre contact details
