Methamphetamine use and psychosis: evidence, guidelines & what’s cooking

This is a 45 minute Turning Point Connect & Learn webinar. To attend the webinar, click the link below to register.

Description: What’s really cooking in methamphetamine treatment? This talk explores current evidence for effective medication and psychosocial interventions, demystifies meth psychosis (what we know and what remains unclear), and bridges the gap between research and practice. We’ll unpack emerging guidelines and trials, including psychedelic-assisted approaches, to give clinicians an understanding of what you can offer right now, and what the next few years will bring.

Associate Professor Shalini Arunogiri is a clinical addiction psychiatrist and researcher at Monash University and Turning Point, Eastern Health. She is the Clinical Director of the Hamilton Centre, Victoria’s statewide centre for co-occurring addiction and mental health, and an NHMRC Emerging Leader Fellow. Shalini has been an investigator on six Australian national multisite randomised controlled trials of methamphetamine use disorder treatments: N-ICE, LiMA, Ready2Change, the Tina Trial, OLAM, and PsiMA.

Shalini completed her PhD on methamphetamine psychosis in 2019 and has published extensively on this topic, with over 37 research outputs and more than $11 million in grant funding focused on methamphetamine. Shalini is immediate past Chair of the RANZCP Faculty of Addiction Psychiatry, past Board Director of the International Society of Addiction Medicine, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Advances in Dual Diagnosis. She works alongside clinician-researchers across addiction and mental health, committed to building the evidence base for integrated care and treatments for people who use methamphetamine.

Date: Tuesday, 27 October 2026

Time: 1:00pm – 1:45PM

Cost: Online – A link will be sent to you before the webinar

Who should attend: This webinar is only available to staff who are working in a Victorian Department of Health (DH) funded AOD organisation.

Registration:  Click here to register