The uncanny parallels between alcohol Prohibition and the 'war on drugs'. A bustle in the cage-row: the making of Rat Park This is a lengthy blog post about the behind-the-scene 'making of'Rat Park. Includes historical photographs of the actual Rat Park experiment from the 1970s, and in...
“Why speak out?”“What’s the point of rocking the boat?” That was my mentality 12 months ago. But after reading Australian author Lisa Pryor’s excellentA Small Book About Drugs(2011), I immediately flipped perspective. Instead I asked myself “why not me?” I’m not trying to glo...
This paper outlines the phases of development of Sideffect GamePlan, an AOD serious game module developed for use by Australian secondary school teachers with students in Years 9 and 10 (aged 14–16 years). Below we outline the application of a systematic and iterative user-centred approach (Ed...