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Delegate Speakers - SSA Annual Symposium 2016


Delegate papers 1 - 2016

John Kelly

Is Alcoholics Anonymous religious, spiritual, neither? Findings from 25 years of mechanisms of behavior change research

Dr Gisella Hanley Santos

Struggles with the Devil: Identity change among street children and young offenders in rehab in Brazil

Dr Joseph Tay Wee Teck

Exploring the internet as a risk environment for anabolic androgenic steroid use

Michelle McCann

Employing Public and Experts by Experience Researchers (PEERs) for a programme of researching substance misuse and ageing: a new model of working in addictions research?

Delegate papers 2 - 2016

Dr Duncan Raistrick

Measuring substance use in specialist services

Dr Christos Kouimtsidis

Alcohol misuse and people with Learning Disabilities living in the community: results of the EBI-LD

Dr Geoff McCombe

Methodological challenges conducting trials in Primary Care – lessons learned from a feasibility study of a complex intervention to enhance alcohol screening and Brief Intervention

Dr Gail Gilchrist

Feasibility of the PROTECT group intervention to improve injecting skills and reduce bloodborne virus risk behaviours among people who inject drugs

Delegate papers 3 - 2016

Briony Enser

Not so responsible? The impact of others’drinking behaviours: students aged 16-24 in Southern England

Dr Caitlin Notley

Real world experiences of using e-cigarettes

Marianne Erskine-Shaw

Group influence on alcohol-induced risk-taking

Professor John Strang

New concentrated naloxone nasal spray for opioid overdose reversal

Delegate papers 4 - 2016

Dr Bridgette Bewick

Engagement through gamification: comparing participant experiences between a serious game and an online self-help module for alcohol misuse and depression

Miss Sophia Chambers

How does engagement with online mutual aid support recovery from problematic alcohol use?

Dr Sarah Elison

Challenging the ‘hierarchy of evidence’ in digital substance misuse interventions research: Using the Medical Research Council (MRC) framework to evidence Breaking Free Online

Dr Ryan Buchanan

The use of social media within an isolated network of people who inject drugs

Delegate papers 5 - 2016

Ms Jose Cree

The invention of addiction in early modern England

Ms Thora Hands

Selling ideas of moderate drinking: Alcohol producers in late Victorian Britain

Dr Janet Weston

Treatment for heroin addiction in Dublin's Mountjoy Prison: reconsidering the impact of HIV and AIDS

Mrs Christine Goodair

The SALIS Collection unveiled: Building an alcohol, tobacco and other drugs digital archive

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