Annual Conference 2024
Confirmed speakers
‘Celebrating excellence in addiction science’
The SSA’s Annual Conference is the UK’s foremost gathering of addiction researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and experts by experience.
Day one
09:30–10:45
Spotlight session: How can drug policy reduce the harms of cannabis use?
11:00–12:30
Choose from:
- Emerging approaches for improving the study and understanding of gambling-related harm
- Digital interventions and technologies
- Past, present, and future of the SSA
13:30–15:00
Choose from:
- Addressing public priorities for alcohol research through the evaluation of novel interventions
- Substance-related deaths
- Workshop: Involving and engaging people with living and lived experience in addiction research
15:00–16:30
Poster session
16:30–17:50
Society Lecture: Tobacco harm reduction – controversies and potential resolutions
Day two
09:15–10:15
How do people with alcohol and drug problems experience stigma, and what can we as researchers do about it?
10:30–12:00
Choose from:
- New and emerging treatment systems
- Health inequalities and substance use
13:00–14:30
Choose from:
- Reducing illicit drug use in young people
- Substance use and co-occurring mental health problems
- Mechanisms of action
14:30–15:45
The NIHR Policy Research Unit in Addictions – a new opportunity to inform government decisions about addictive products, behaviours and systems
