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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