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Invited Speakers - SSA Annual Conference 2023


Society Lecture

We are delighted that Professor Dr Wim van den Brink, professor of Addiction Psychiatry at the Amsterdam University Medical Centers and president of the International Collaboration of ADHD and Substance Abuse will give this year's Society Lecture.

Wim van den Brink

Society Lecture 2023: Addiction and ADHD; epidemiology, genetics, neurobiology, prevention and treatment

No smoke without fire – triangulating the evidence on smoking and mental illness

Chloe Burke

Prospective associations of smoking and new-onset mental health conditions

Jorien Treur

Using genetic information to infer causality between smoking and mental health problems

Gemma Taylor

Smoking cessation for improving mental health

Socio-ecological considerations of substance use among refugees in Germany and the treatment challenges

Ebtesam Saleh

Qualitative research in exploring and understanding substance use among refugees: A systematic review

Laura Hertner

Refugees (mis)using substances: Why social ecology matters - evidence from a multi-sited qualitative study in Germany

Panagiotis Stylianopoulos

German addiction care – A Delphi study on how to reach and treat refugees

Taking an intersectional approach towards understanding alcohol use and getting support in ethnic minority groups

Jo-Anne Puddephat

Understanding experiences of alcohol use among ethnic minority groups with a mental health problem: a framework analysis

Sharon Tabberer

Alcohol and belonging in LBGT+, Polish, and South Asian communities

Sarah Fox

Gendered shame: supporting South Asian women and their families affected by problematic substance use

Cannabis use, addiction and mental health

Rachel Lees

Childhood mental health as predictors of later problematic cannabis use in adolescence

Ad Gridley

Cannabis and schizoaffective disorder: A case study

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