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When someone you love is addicted to cannabis and not interested in quitting, it's important to have self-care strategies in place to look after yourself.

Do you use cannabis when you can’t sleep? Here are some reasons to reconsider.

There's a lot of 'research' and 'evidence' out there, but how can you tell the difference between real research, which is the result of a proper scientific study, and poor research, which sometimes produces big claims but is actually meaningless?

Parenting teenagers when drug use is an issue can be challenging and emotional. In this blog, we look at one of the most common calls to our cannabis helpline and provide some small insights that may go a long way.

Don’t smoke away your looks! Why quitting weed is a great natural beauty tip.

Respiratory diseases, chronic coughs and petrochemicals - just a few reasons why bongs aren’t cool.

February saw the quiet of previous months fade into a new year of debate about medicinal cannabis, more drug driving crashes and interesting new research.

Trying to quit weed is not always easy. One of our NCPIC team sat down with one of his closest mates to talk about his mate's decision to quit weed and how he is progressing two weeks in.

The key to being truly happy is finding the right kind of happiness, which means cultivating meaning and purpose in your life.

These 5 questions will get you thinking about your weed use.

The effects of weed can go beyond your health

What do you do if your partner is addicted to weed?

It can be surprising how often small indulgences can build up into addictions.

If you want to help a mate with a cannabis problem, having a conversation with them is a good place to start.

A brief history of how our relationship with cannabis has changed over the years.

Here are a few thoughts on a very big question.

In January the media covered articles on the growing concern around synthetic cannabis use, medical cannabis, and weed taking on a persona of its own on Twitter.

Knowing how to talk to kids starting their first year of high school about 'high school issues' is important in preparing them for the year ahead.

Do you want to turn your New Year's resolutions into lasting habits? Starting your resolutions in February instead of January could be the answer.

The importance of engaging students in interactive drug education.

Aiming high is a great way to ensure you achieve your goals, but smoking weed may get in your way.

New employee induction is the ideal time to educate your employees about your workplace drug and alcohol policy.

As a parent with a teen who is looking to go overseas for end-of-year break or even a gap year, a big part of your job in helping to increase your child’s safety is making sure they are informed. Unfortunately, ignorance is no excuse for breaking the law.

Moving out of home for the first time is a lot of things – scary, exciting, freeing, messy… and just a little bit awesome. For the first time in your life, there will be no one to tell you to clean your room, asking where you were the night before, or bugging you about studying. Here are the collective things we’ve learned about first time moving.

The summer holidays are here and it is time to relax, take it easy and freshen up before you launch into the new year. With many of us looking at taking a road trip around Australia or sporting holidays, it's important to remember the short-term effects of cannabis on your physical and mental abilities and how this can affect your safety.

With school holidays in full swing, it can be difficult to keep track of what your kids are doing and who they are doing it with. But could knowing more actually make a big impact on their future and safety?

The New Year is the perfect time to 'declutter' bad habits from your life.

The summer music festival season is off to a flying start - but could flying too 'high' bring it to an abrupt halt?

Synthetic cannabis took the Australian market by storm a few years ago - so why is it a drug you should really aim to avoid?

Christmas can be a stressful time of year for some families, so if you decide to bring up tricky conversation topics like cannabis use, here's some tips on how best to approach it.

Have you just found out your ATAR result and it wasn't quite what you were hoping for? Here's some tips on how to survive the disappointing news and look forward to your future.

Christmas can be a fun, crazy and electric time of the year when we get it right – but can come with some nasty consequences when we get it wrong. To get you ready for Chrissy, here are our five tips on substance use during the silly season.

This year, try a novel approach to quitting weed - grab an Advent Calendar and practice a daily abstain and reward routine.

Christmas can be a tricky time - for a lot of us, we look forward to the fun, festivities and food, but for others it can mean depression, anxiety and just feeling alone.

A wrap up of cannabis media stories for the month of November, including the cannabis legalisation debate, the police cracking down on stoned miners and synthetic drugs importation on the rise.

Using weed, especially a lot of it and from a young age, has been linked to the onset of mental illness in vulnerable people. So it's important to have the 'mental health family history' talk to find out if your mental health could be vulnerable to the effects of weed.                                                                                                                                                                                                    

If you smoke weed and you have a close support network, it’s not unlikely that you’ve heard their opinion on your drug of choice, what it can do to you and why you should give it up ‘now, before it’s too late’. And while all of this may actually be good advice, do you really want to hear it?...

Is weed addictive?

People often comment on our blogs or Facebook that cannabis isn’t addictive and they’ve quit plenty of times without a problem, they just choose to use it... 

Tough love
Sometimes being a friend means having to dole out a bit of tough love. Encouraging a mate to get fit, ease off the grog or party drugs, quit that dead end job and aim higher, or give up weed...

Quitting weed: Are your mates friends or foes?

Have you ever tried to change some bad habits only to slip up every time you’re around your mates? Maybe it’s signing up for going ‘Dry in July’ or implementing a training program...

Stop what you’re doing. We see you…standing in the kitchen waiting for your boxer shorts to freeze before you slip them on and shake your way back to the bedroom.

So you’re trying to get pregnant...

Every now and then, when the medicinal cannabis stories start to temporarily thin, Australian media look to something a little more alarming or downright scary  to fill the gap, such as the ‘potentially life-saving shocking truth’ stories about drugs, how easy they are to get and the real damage they may be doing...

In January this year, when US President Barack Obama apparently made the statement that he doesn’t believe cannabis is more dangerous than alcohol, he sent media into a spin – especially because the US at that time was heavily debating further legalisation of cannabis for medicinal and recreational purposes...

If you look at the recently released ‘sneak peak’ results from the 2013 National Drug Strategy Household Survey, you’ll see that we’ve been successful in stemming an increase in cannabis use since 2010...

After recently attending a university welcome back function and talking to a lot of students, our NCPIC team was left wondering where a lot of young people are getting their marijuana information and education. With heaps of questions about whether cannabis is legal...

Last week, the NCPIC team had a new experience, finding ourselves amid the foot traffic of 5000 young students at an event for one of Australia’s largest university campuses. With an interactive stall, themed ‘keep off the grass’...

In the first week of July there was a lot of publicity about the release of the United Nations (UN) World Drug Report 2014. The mainstream media really latched onto the figures presented in the drug report, which essentially showcased the changing face of drug problems around the globe...