Amanda Baker - Adjunct Professor

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Amanda Baker is a clinical psychologist and National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Senior Research Fellow employed as a Professor in the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Newcastle. Her research has been supported by NHMRC fellowships continuously since 2003.

Amanda has over 250 publications. She focusses her research on the triad of mental, physical health and substance use disorders. Projects typically involve multi-site randomised controlled trials of psychological interventions among people with severe mental disorders or severe physical illness (e.g., cancer, cardiovascular disease) and tobacco, alcohol and other substance use problems. More>>

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23 April 2024 - A Qualitive Study Using Nicotine Products

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dar.13850

• People in alcohol and other drugs (AOD) treatment have higher smoking prevalence than the wider population.

• AOD service clients comfortably use combination nicotine replacement or vaping.

• Both pharmacological interventions help manage nicotine cravings and withdrawal.

• Quitline behavioural counselling is a highly valued support for smoking cessation.

• Nicotine vaping can offer AOD service clients an acceptable cessation alternative.

18 July 2023

Co-signee to "Urgent vaping law reform needed in Australia" that endorsed concerns of the 

Australian National Advisory Council on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ANACAD), that the prescription policy is failing and that the Minister's proposed vaping crackdown will only make things worse.

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29 May 2023 - Letter To Mark Butler

Letter-to-the-Health-Minister-1June2023-FINAL4 29 May 2023.pdf

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January 2022 - Study: Barriers To Using Nicotine Vape Products

2 February 2022 - Response to the (TGA) scheduling delegates’ interim decision on nicotine.