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What's the deal? Cannabis facts for parents booklet
This is an excellent booklet for any parent who wants to learn more about cannabis and its risks and effects on the health and well-being of their teenager/young person.
What's the deal? Talking with a young person about cannabis booklet
A short booklet designed to provide information and tips for effectively raising the issue of cannabis use with a young person. Practical, simple and thorough, it is a resource that will build your confidence in addressing what can be confronting issue.
What's the deal on quitting? A do-it-yourself guide to quitting cannabis booklet
This booklet provides a practical and interactive do-it-yourself guide for cannabis users who wish to quit cannabis or reduce their use.
What's the deal? Cannabis facts for young people booklet
This booklet is a great guide for young people on what cannabis is, how it works, and the effect it has on the mind and body. It also includes some simple information on cannabis and the law and driving stoned.
Fast facts on cannabis booklet
Quick and simple booklet on the key facts about cannabis. A great resource to have in health and community centres, schools, or for personal use as a parent, friend or user.
Fast facts on mental health & cannabis booklet
A quick and easy overview of the various mental health impacts associated with cannabis use.
Fast facts on cannabis & driving booklet
This short booklet highlights the key dangers of driving while under the influence of cannabis, and emphasises the increased risk of motor vehicle crashes.
Fast facts on synthetic cannabinoids booklet
Synthetic cannabis has become popular in Australia in recent years, but do users really understand the dangers? This booklet looks at what synthetic cannabinoids are, how they work and the harms they can cause to people who use them.
Concerned about someone's cannabis use? Fast Facts on how to help booklet
This booklet provides easy tips and actions to follow if you want to help someone who is using cannabis.
Clear your vision booklet
A "do-it-yourself guide" designed for healthcare, youth or AOD workers to use with disadvantaged young people to help them manage their cannabis use and quit. This is available as an online interactive program or as a downloadable booklet. There is also a facilitator's manual available to download below.
Clear your vision - facilitator's manual
Downloadable facilitator's manual to accompany the Clear Your Vision do-it-yourself guide.
Clear your vision - facilitator's manual
Downloadable facilitator's manual to accompany the Clear Your Vision do-it-yourself guide.
MAKINGtheLINK student program
MAKINGtheLINK is a curriculum-based program for schools to promote helpseeking for cannabis use and mental health problems, based on evidence-based research and developed in collaboration with teachers and students. This is a download-only program, which you can access by clicking on the 'Download digital copy' below. You can also view the MAKINGtheLINK Mates Help Mates videos here or order the DVD below.
MAKINGtheLINK parent workshop
The MAKINGtheLINK Parent Workshop educates parents about the adolescent barriers to seeking help for cannabis-related problems and how to minimise them. It explains what kinds of help there is available in school and in the community, how to access it and how they can help as parents. It promotes parents as important helpers, and teaches them how to assist and motivate young people to seek professional help. The multimedia vodcasts model to parents how they can talk to teenagers about difficult issues, such as substance use, and are available on the NCPIC YouTube channel.
MAKINGtheLINK Indigenous program
This package is an educational resource incorporating a series of activities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander school-aged students, to encourage them to seek help for problems related to drug use and mental health.
Smoke signals
The downloadable worksheets in the Smoke Signals series are designed to be used with young people who have symptoms of mental illness and who misuse cannabis, as well as alcohol or other drugs. They give practical strategies for helping these young people based on motivational interviewing, psychoeducational and cognitive behavioural approaches.
Young people and cannabis use training package
A self-directed learning package for youth sector workers to help them learn how to engage with young people with cannabis use issues.
Quick Fix
Translated into Farsi, this resource is a treatment manual for primary care settings.
What is cannabis? booklet
Part of a suite of easy-to-read, illustrated resources that are designed for people with low literacy skills. This booklet explains what cannabis is and how it works.
Cannabis and addiction booklet
Part of a suite of easy-to-read, illustrated resources that are designed for people with low literacy skills. This booklet explains that cannabis is addictive, what addiction means and the symptoms of withdrawal.
Cannabis and pregnancy booklet
Part of a suite of easy-to-read, illustrated resources that are designed for people with low literacy skills. This booklet explains the risks to unborn babies of using cannabis while pregnant.
Cannabis and the law poster
Part of a suite of easy-to-read, illustrated resources that are designed for people with low literacy skills. This poster depicts the possible legal implications of using cannabis.
Cannabis and pregnancy poster
Part of a suite of easy-to-read, illustrated resources that are designed for people with low literacy skills. This poster depicts the risks to the unborn child of smoking cannabis while pregnant.
Cannabis and mental health poster
Part of a suite of easy-to-read, illustrated resources that are designed for people with low literacy skills. This poster depicts how cannabis can affect mental health.
Cannabis and addiction poster
Part of a suite of easy-to-read, illustrated resources that are designed for people with low literacy skills. This poster simply explains that cannabis can be addictive.
Cannabis and motivation poster
Part of a suite of easy-to-read, illustrated resources that are designed for people with low literacy skills. This poster depicts how cannabis can affect motivation.
What is gunja? booklet
A simple explanation of what gunja is, how it works, and the effect it can have on your body. Specifically designed for people with limited literacy skills.
Gunja and your community booklet
This booklet explains the impact that cannabis use can have on community, family and culture. Specifically designed for people with limited literacy skills.
Gunja and the law booklet
A simple explanation of the law on gunja possession in Australia. Specifically designed for people with limited literacy skills.
Gunja and pregnancy booklet
An explanation of how gunja use during pregnancy can affect the health of unborn babies. Specifically designed for people with limited literacy skills.
Gunja poster
A simple poster that explains what gunja is. Specifically designed for people with limited literacy skills.
Gunja and the law booklet
A simple poster depicting the impact that cannabis use can have on community, family and culture. Specifically designed for people with limited literacy skills.
Gunja and the law poster
A simple poster depicting the law on gunja possession in Australia. Specifically designed for people with limited literacy skills.
Cannabis and the law booklet
Part of a suite of easy-to-read, illustrated resources that are designed for people with low literacy skills. This booklet explains the laws on cannabis in Australia.
Gunja and pregnancy poster
A simple poster depicting how gunja use during pregnancy can affect the health of unborn babies. Specifically designed for people with limited literacy skills.
Record it: cannabis use self-monitoring diary
Diary that helps cannabis users understand the motives, situations and emotions behind their cannabis use.
Quitting cannabis workbook booklet
Taking users gradually through the process of quitting, this simple book helps people determine if they have a problem, identify why they want to change, and work through the various steps of implementing that change. Practical, informative and interactive, the guidance and activities provide a clear path for quitting. We recommend that this resource be ordered only once organisations and individuals have completed a NCPIC clinical training workshop.
Quitting cannabis clinician's guide booklet
This booklet describes the content and delivery and delivery of a brief intervention designed to assist cannabis users to change their drug use and maintain their desired goal. We recommend that this resource be downloaded only once organisations and individuals have completed a NCPIC clinical training workshop.
Strategy workbook booklet
This workbook provides users with real and practical steps for taking control of their use, and ultimately quitting. It helps build the motivation for change, set goals and plans, and manage withdrawal. We recommend that this resource be ordered only once organisations and individuals have completed a NCPIC clinical training workshop.
GP toolkit: GP factsheets
This pack includes: GP guidelines for assessment and management of cannabis use disorder, cannabis withdrawal syndrome for GPs, cannabis and mental health, key messages on cannabis, cannabis use and fertility, cannabis: what is it?
Severity of dependence scale (SDS)
A quick questionnaire which assesses the level of severity of a user's cannabis dependence.
High risk confidence questionnaire (HRC)
Questionnaire that assesses a user's confidence and ability to resist smoking cannabis in a variety of situations.
Cannabis problems questionnaire (CPQ)
Questionnaire that identifies problems as a result of using cannabis over the previous 3 months (for adults).
Adolescent cannabis problems questionnaire (CPQ-A)
Questionnaire that identifies problems as a result of using cannabis over the previous 3 months (for adolescents).
Cannabis use problems identification test (CUPIT)
Identifies problems as the result of cannabis use over the previous 12 months.
ACCU (Adolescent cannabis check-up) baseline assessment
Detailed assessment to be used in the delivery of the Adolescent Cannabis Check-up (ACCU).
ACCU (Adolescent cannabis check-up) personal feedback report
Feedback form to be used in the delivery of the Adolescent Cannabis Check-up (ACCU).
Timeline followback
A calendar format where users record their cannabis use frequency and quantity over a 1-4 week period.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cannabis Withdrawal Scale
A short questionnaire that identifies the level of withdrawal symptoms in users who have either quit or reduced their cannabis use. Adapted for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients/patients.
Bulletin 18: The use of cannabis for medical purposes
NCPIC produces regular bulletins on a variety of cannabis-related topics, including the latest cannabis research by the Centre and its consortium partners.
Bulletin 17: Cannabis and sleep - A complex and unfinished story
NCPIC produces regular bulletins on a variety of cannabis-related topics, including the latest cannabis research by the Centre and its consortium partners.
Bulletin 16: Role of general practitioners in provision of brief interventions for cannabis use-related difficulties
NCPIC produces regular bulletins on a variety of cannabis-related topics, including the latest cannabis research by the Centre and its consortium partners.
Bulletin 15: Young Men and Yarndi: a pilot to diffuse information on cannabis, its use and potential risks among young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians
NCPIC produces regular bulletins on a variety of cannabis-related topics, including the latest cannabis research by the Centre and its consortium partners.
Bulletin 14: Raising awareness about cannabis, its use and impact on health and wellbeing among Indigenous Australians
NCPIC produces regular bulletins on a variety of cannabis-related topics, including the latest cannabis research by the Centre and its consortium partners.
Bulletin 13: Synthetic cannabinoids: The Australian experience
CPIC produces regular bulletins on a variety of cannabis-related topics, including the latest cannabis research by the Centre and its consortium partners.
Bulletin 12: Self-managed change from problematic cannabis use
NCPIC produces regular bulletins on a variety of cannabis-related topics, including the latest cannabis research by the Centre and its consortium partners.
Bulletin 11: FYRST STOP Youth Cannabis Clinic: Evaluation using routinely collected data
NCPIC produces regular bulletins on a variety of cannabis-related topics, including the latest cannabis research by the Centre and its consortium partners.
Bulletin 10: Young people and cannabis in the Western Pacific region
CPIC produces regular bulletins on a variety of cannabis-related topics, including the latest cannabis research by the Centre and its consortium partners.
Bulletin 9: CLIMATE/CRUfAD* Schools: cannabis prevention programs
NCPIC produces regular bulletins on a variety of cannabis-related topics, including the latest cannabis research by the Centre and its consortium partners.
Bulletin 8: Cannabis and other drug use in the Australian workforce: findings from the 2007 NDSHS data
NCPIC produces regular bulletins on a variety of cannabis-related topics, including the latest cannabis research by the Centre and its consortium partners.
Bulletin 7: Clinical and medico-legal implications of drug testing for cannabis
CPIC produces regular bulletins on a variety of cannabis-related topics, including the latest cannabis research by the Centre and its consortium partners.
Bulletin 6: Cannabis use prevention methods in Australian schools
NCPIC produces regular bulletins on a variety of cannabis-related topics, including the latest cannabis research by the Centre and its consortium partners.
Bulletin 5: The need to monitor and reduce cannabis use among young offenders
NCPIC produces regular bulletins on a variety of cannabis-related topics, including the latest cannabis research by the Centre and its consortium partners.
Bulletin 4: Barriers and facilitators to cannabis treatment
CPIC produces regular bulletins on a variety of cannabis-related topics, including the latest cannabis research by the Centre and its consortium partners.
Bulletin 3: Population trends in cannabis use and first results of a study on cannabis-related emergency department presentations
NCPIC produces regular bulletins on a variety of cannabis-related topics, including the latest cannabis research by the Centre and its consortium partners.
Bulletin 2: The management of cannabis use in Australian general practice
NCPIC produces regular bulletins on a variety of cannabis-related topics, including the latest cannabis research by the Centre and its consortium partners.
Bulletin 1: Clinical profiles of cannabis-dependent adolescents in residential substance use treatment
CPIC produces regular bulletins on a variety of cannabis-related topics, including the latest cannabis research by the Centre and its consortium partners.
Cannabis and sport research brief
Could it be the gunja?
A series of downloadable posters and pamphlets that aims to get people thinking about whether gunja could be contributing to health and social issues.