About the National Inhalants Information Service
The National Inhalants Information Service (NIIS) strives to increase knowledge and awareness of inhalant abuse and to enhance the ability to respond to inhalant abuse across Australia in both Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities. A wide variety of information on inhalant abuse is presented on the NIIS website and made available to the Australian community particularly to assist parents, teachers, police, ambulance personnel and alcohol and other drugs workers to address inhalant abuse if it arises. All members of the community are encouraged to make any inhalant abuse information requests directly to the NIIS at any time.
The National Inhalant Abuse Taskforce final report National Directions on Inhalant Abuse recommended that: “a national inhalant abuse clearinghouse be established”. With funding made available through the Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy Cost Shared Funding Model, the National Inhalants Information Service (NIIS) is a result of that recommendation.
The Drugs Policy and Services Branch of the Victorian Department of Human Services (DHS) manages the NIIS project with strategic guidance and input from the National Inhalant Abuse Co-ordinating Group. In 2007 the DHS issued a tender for suitably qualified and experienced parties to establish, promote and operate an inhalants clearinghouse. The Alcohol and other Drugs Council of Australia was successful in its bid to establish the NIIS.
ADCA’s National Drugs Sector Information Service staff commenced work on the NIIS project in January 2008. The NIIS was then successfully launched on 23 June 2008, in Alice Springs.
Our contact details:
PO Box 269
Woden ACT 2606
ph. (02) 6215 9816
fax. (02) 6282 7364
email: info@inhalantsinfo.org.au
Promotional material can be mailed to you or you can download our: brochure, card or poster.
Acknowledgements:
The National Inhalants Information Service gratefully acknowledges the help of the Stakeholders Advisory Group and others who generously gave of their time and expertise.
Judy Alcock - Parent volunteer with the Parent Drug Information Service of Western Australia.
Andrew Biven - AOD worker, researcher, Advisor to the National Inhalant Abuse Taskforce.
Dr Maggie Brady - Fellow, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University.
Dr Peter d'Abbs - Associate Professor, School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Science, James Cook University Cairns, Queensland.
Alan Eade - Paramedic Team Manager, Metropolitan Ambulance Service, Victoria and Chief Paramedic for St. John Ambulance Australia.
Peter Kay - Manager, Substance Misuse and Youth Programs, Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Services DFC.
Blair McFarland - Central Australian Youth Link-Up Service (CAYLUS) co-ordinator and safe petrol campaigner.
Dr Sarah MacLean - Post-doctural Research Fellow, Turning Point Alcohol & Drug Centre, Victoria.
Amanda Moran - Information & Training Officer, Drug & Alcohol Coordination Unit, Queensland Police Service
Sue-Anne Morley - Executive Officer National Indigenous Drug and Alcohol Committee (NIDAC)
John Roberts – Manager Student Wellbeing, Drug Education Northern Metropolitan Region – DEECD, Victoria.
Professor Neil Thomson - Foundation Professor of Public Health at Edith Cowan University, Director of Australian Indigenous Health InfoNet.
* Copyright for the large changing photographs utilised on the front page of the NIIS website rests with Glen Campbell/Fairfax photos (photo 1) & Patrick Sheandell O’Carroll/Photoalto ( photos 2-4).
{ Page updated: 3 December 2009 }
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