Annual Symposium 2009

Themes: Treatment policy - Service-user involvement - Young people & families

Thursday 12 and Friday 13 November at the Park Inn, York, UK

Professor Christine Godfrey will give the Society Lecture – ‘Addiction Treatment - Do economists contribute to the policy debate?’

Speakers:

  • Connie Weisner - California, USA
  • Ann McNeill - Nottingham, UK
  • Eileen Kaner – Newcastle, UK
  • Jo Neale - Oxford, UK
  • Anne Lingford-Hughes - Bristol, UK
  • Gerhard Bühringer - Dresden, Germany
  • Isidore Obot - Geneva, Switzerland
  • Keith Humphreys - California, USA
  • Antoni Gual i Solé - Barcelona, Spain
  • John Cunningham - Toronto, Canada
  • John Kelly - Boston, USA
  • Rhoda Emlyn-Jones - Cardiff, Wales

Alcohol Education & Research Council Symposium:

‘What does the AERC do?’

A parallel session, chaired by Ray Hodgson

  • Angela Attwood
  • Alyson Smith
  • Val Curran
  • David Foxcroft

Submissions for delegates’ posters and oral presentations are now welcome (closing date: Friday 4 September). Any addictions subject will be considered. See ‘Instructions for Authors’. £500 prize for best poster.

Post: Graham Hunt, Leeds Addiction Unit, The Coach House, 19 Springfield Mount, Leeds, LS2 9NG, UK

Fax: +44 (0)113 295 2787

Email: graham.hunt@leedspft.nhs.uk

Delegate application forms are available here.

 

The Venue

The Park Inn York Hotel is a vibrant hotel and conference centre located in the centre of this historic Northern City. Having just completed a £5 million pound investment programme, this established 200 bedroom hotel is now looking better than ever, offering comfortable, modern and value for money accommodation, in a relaxed and stylish setting.

The hotel is only a 5 minute walk from York railway station, and an even shorter distance to the many unique Shopping Districts and major tourist attractions that York has to offer all its visitors such as the Jorvik Viking Centre, York Minster and the world-famous National Railway Museum.

Key Features

  • 200 newly refurbished bedrooms offering air conditioning, flatscreen 26" digital TV's and large drench style showers as standard
  • 32 newly launched Business Friendly Rooms, which include Free Wi-fi, in house movies and a highly efficient express check in and check out facility
  • 13 modern, flexible and fully air conditioned Meeting & Event Rooms
  • Fantastic Buffet Breakfast available every day and guaranteed to set you on the right track in the morning
  • Regatta Bar, with a unique riverside setting and the perfect location in which to enjoy light snacks or drinks (open to non residents)
  • Wi-fi access available throughout the entire hotel
  • Innaction Health & Fitness Centre available to all residents on a complimentary basis for Gymnasium, Sauna & Dance Studio
  • On site Beautician , offering a range of treatments - pre booking not always essential
  • On site Car Parking for up to 90 vehicles, charged overnight @ £ 12.00 per night
  • Non residential Guests of the hotel are able to use the car park @ £ 9.00 per day or part thereof
  • Additional Car Parking is available at the NCP car park on Tanner Row

 


Annual Symposium 2008

Addiction Across The Lifespan

The SSA Annual Symposium was held at the Park Inn, York on Thursday 13 and Friday 14 November 2008.

The programme can be downloaded here
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Society Lecture

What's so new about the new abstentionism? History and treatment policy

Virginia Berridge spoke on the evolution of addictions treatments, and the influences that have shaped addictions treatment and policy historically.


Session themes:

Addiction: routes in; routes out • Natural recovery and self-change • Wider impacts • Outcomes

Speakers:

  • Jonathan Chick: How can Alcoholics Anonymous be so successful in secular Britain?
  • Alex Copello: Involving Family-members in Recovery
  • Donald Forrester: Parental Substance-use & Children
  • Hilda Loughran & Mary Ellen McCann (for Diane M Hogan): The Impact of Opiate Dependence on Parenting Processes: Contextual, Physiological and Psychological Factors
  • David Hodgins: Natural Recovery from Gambling Problems
  • Siân James: Drug Use, Self-change & Recovery
  • Hilda Loughran & Mary Ellen McCann: Community Drugs Problems: A Lifespan Perspective
  • Jim Orford: Alcohol & Self-change Strategies
  • Kate Pickett: Smoking During Pregnancy: Correlates and Consequences
  • Duncan Raistrick: Measuring Treatment Outcomes & the Social Satisfaction Questionnaire
  • Alison Rolfe: Findings of the Birmingham Untreated Heavy-Drinkers Project
  • Kathleen Schutte: Alcohol Addiction & Natural Recovery
  • Nicola Singleton: The UKDPC Consensus on Treatment Outcome

Plus a special parallel session

Tom Babor: Alcohol and Public Policy: A Report on the 2nd Edition of Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity

  • Recent epidemiological research in alcohol policy
  • The role of the alcoholic beverage industry in alcohol problems and public policy
  • Recent developments in intervention research: including pricing and taxation, regulating physical availability, drink-driving countermeasures, regulation of alcohol promotion, treatment and prevention/education
  • New effectiveness ratings for alcohol-related intervention

Plus

the official launch of the 2nd edition of ‘Publishing Addiction Science’ – with a talk by the editors

'Delegates' abstracts and posters now available to view online here!



Annual Symposium 2007

"Theory, policy and practice in addictions: how are they related?"

The SSA's annual Symposium 2007 was held on Thursday 15 – Friday 16 November at the Park Inn Hotel, North Street, York, UK.

The papers presented over the two days are available here.

The programme is here.


Annual Symposium 2006

“Family and Social Networks” and “New Conceptual Frontiers in Addictions Treatment”

The SSA Annual Symposium was held in York on 2nd - 3rd November 2006.

Papers and presentations are here.


The Annual Symposium 2005

Papers presented are now available here.



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