A treatment order is a legal document that allows a hospital or mental health clinic to give you treatment for a mental illness. While you are on an order, you lose some of your rights and freedoms. You may have to stay in hospital. You can be given treatment even if you do not agree...

Compares medications taken by prisoners with people in the general community. Summary It is known that prisoners generally have poor health and complex health needs that are reflected in the number and types of medications they take. Less is known about how this medication use compares with people in the general community. This bulletin uses...

In a survey fielded in April 2016, more than 2,100 Australian adults were asked about their perceptions on a range of aspects of the quality of life of children and teenagers today compared to when the adults themselves were growing up.

Cultivation of cannabis for medicinal or scientific purposes needs considered management before it is rolled out as a therapeutic good. Since the publication in the Journal last year of a perspective on cannabis that stated: “Australia is behind the times on the medicinal use of cannabis”, there appears to have been a palpable change in...

In a survey fielded in April 2016, more than 2,100 Australian adults were asked about their perceptions on how politicians in federal parliament today are faring on issues relating to the health and wellbeing of children and teenagers. Adults rated their level of agreement from strongly disagree through to strongly agree in response to a...