October 2024
Quote
“Knowledge always has and always will be the best inoculation against fear.”
Useful Fact
The NSW Opioid Treatment Program (OTP), also known as opioid agonist treatment or opioid dependence treatment, provides pharmacotherapy and support services to people with an opioid dependence.
Find a local pharmacy that offers OTP or long-acting injectable buprenorphine using the online map.
If you are considering a change in dosing point, please speak to your prescriber to discuss as this will need to be arranged by them.
It is recommended you call the pharmacy to confirm that they have capacity to take on new patients.
Instagram Highlight
Yes it's only a few months in, but we are already calling this our 2024 highlight! ✔️
✨The 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 event at @sydneyoperahouse was full of insightful and thought-provoking discussion, ending with a surprise meeting of the QUEEN herself @hannahferguson___ the founder and CEO of @cheekmedia.co
A true inspirer here at Caddyshack 🤗
#ShareAffectionNotInfection #Slay
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Campaign & Events
Mpox is an infection caused by the monkeypox virus which is mainly spread through skin to skin contact with someone who has mpox.
Since May 2022, there has been an increase in mpox infections in countries where the illness is not usually seen, including Australia.
People at highest risk of mpox in NSW are men who have sex with men, particularly those having sex overseas or with overseas travellers.
There is a vaccine to protect against mpox. It is free and recommended in NSW for eligible groups of people.
Learn more about the vaccine and learn more about the symptoms and how to stay safe. Downloadable fact sheet here.
Know Your Websites
Women and gender diverse people should feel safe, welcome and valued in all public places across New South Wales. Help make public places better by sharing your experience.
YourGround NSW was designed by CrowdSpot in collaboration with Monash University’s XYX Lab. It’s a crowdmapping website that enables women and gender diverse people to identify and share places that make them feel uneasy, scared, unwelcome; or happy, safe and included.
With this project, they hope to empower women and gender diverse people to call out safe and unsafe experiences and geographically identify spaces where they have good as well as concerning experiences.
The map unearths real stories of women and gender diverse people and makes them visible to advocate for change.
Who are?
The Project Air Strategy for Personality disorders is an internationally recognised leader in research, education and treatment of personality disorders. They aim to support compassionate, evidence-based treatment and recovery for people with personality disorder and related conditions.
Project Air at the University of Wollongong is a centre of excellence for research, education and treatment of personality disorders and related complex challenges including self-harm, suicide and comorbid conditions and is the only university-based personality disorders centre with a national and international focus that has the capacity and expertise to provide a national focus of work.
Project Air has developed and evaluated a range of interventions for health services, schools and clinicians. They build capacity to help health services, schools and communities identify and respond more effectively to suicide risk, self-harm and complex mental health presentations.
On the Blog
Myth or Fact?
The vulva & vagina are not the same thing?
From our participating Instagram followers, 17% said this is a myth with 83% correct in that it is a fact!
The vagina is a 3- to 6-inch-long muscular canal that runs from the cervix, the lower part of the uterus, to the outside of the body. The vulva is all the outer stuff — including the labia, urethra, clitoris, and vaginal opening.
Most people can orgasm from vaginal penetration alone?
What do you think about this one, myth or fact?
Most of our Instagram followers, 88% were correct that it is a myth. A little over 18% of vagina owners say they can reach orgasm from penetration alone. For the other 80%, the key orgasmic ingredient is the clitoris.
Read the whole blog.
Resource
A better emotional vocabulary can help you develop better emotional skills.
Researchers are finding that a better emotional vocabulary can help you identify, work with, and regulate your emotions. A rich vocabulary helps you understand yourself and the world around you, and it helps you understand what you’re feeling when an emotion arises.
We’ve all seen that having a large vocabulary makes us more articulate and more able to express ourselves precisely; what is interesting is that a large emotional vocabulary helps us identify and regulate our emotions more quickly. This can be immensely helpful! The sooner you know what you’re feeling, the quicker you can take effective emotional action.
Go to the Free Emotions List - this alphabetized list of all of your emotions in three nuanced categories (Soft, Medium, and Intense) so that you can become smarter, quicker, and more articulate with your emotions.
Diary Dates
Our exciting line up of On The Couch guests for the remainder of 2024 includes;
Rachel Wotton with Mohammed Samrah on the importance of equity and inclusion for people with disability in the sexual and reproductive health space and discussing the lived experience of HIV with the Positive Speakers Bureau.
Register and get your free tickets to be in the live online audience for On The Couch episodes HERE.
Watch or listen to previous On The Couch episodes HERE.
Complete free modules about sexual & reproductive health in your own time.