Annual
Symposium 2013
Thursday 7 and Friday 8
November, at the Park Inn, York
Professor Robert West will give
the Society Lecture:
'What can the experience of combating tobacco
addiction globally tell us about better ways of
addressing other addictions?'
Themes:
Patient/service-user involvement; Effective mechanisms
of treatment; Alcohol and drug testing methods
and their uses; International treatment and prevention
policy.
Speakers:
Professor Matt Field – ‘Understanding
addiction: the contributions of basic science’
Dr Kathleen Carroll – ‘What is the evidence
for time limiting addiction treatments?’
Professor Katie Witkiewitz – ‘Improving
treatment delivery outcomes’
Dr Magdalena Harris – ‘Hearing the service-user
voice: evidence for the advantages of taking the
service-user perspective into the design of service
delivery’
Dr Matthew Gaskell – ‘Moving from service
user to self help group: the experience of a treatment
group for social anxiety and alcohol dependence’
Dr Chris Holden – ‘Alcohol, tobacco,
and industry influence on public policy’
Linda Ng Fat - ‘Are we overestimating the
beneficial effects of alcohol in later life? The
sick quitter and sick non-starter hypotheses’
Professor Robin Davidson – ‘The myth
of evidence based policy’
Dr Steve George – ‘How to test –
what do tests tell’
Dr Robert Cohen – ‘Clinical and legal
aspects of hair testing for alcohol’
Dr Kim Wolff – ‘Drug-driving legislation;
the policy and the law: Which drugs are to be
included and what is the evidence?’
Dr Martin Raw – ‘A survey of tobacco
cessation support in 121 countries’
Dr Vivian Hope – ‘Harm reduction: policy
and practice’
Dr Jürgen Rehm – ‘Alcohol treatment
policy and the AMPHORA project’
SSA Fred Yates prize 2013
Prize winner Jaime Delgadillo will talk on his
work: ‘Mental health screening and outcome
measurement in alcohol & drug users’
Call for papers
Abstracts on any addictions subject
are welcome, for consideration as delegates' oral
or poster presentations (the final decision on
presentation format will be made by the organisers).
Abstracts should be around 250 words, and follow
the guidelines
here. (Send as attachment in Word document
format to: membership@addiction-ssa.org.)
Abstracts selected for presentation will be published
in the conference literature, along with brief
biographies of the authors. Examples of previous
year's papers are available in the online
archive.
Closing deadlines
Oral paper abstracts: Friday 6 September
Poster abstracts: Friday 4 October
Registration
You can submit your details using
the form below, and register as a Symposium delegate
by making payment using the methods shown.
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