Annual Symposium 1999

Symposium Speakers’ Abstracts - 1999

Beliefs about the intrinsic dangerousness of a substance shape its prevalence and influence policy

Professor Lee Robins

What makes research effective? The historical evidence base

Professor Virginia Berridge

Implementing alcohol policy – “Fine Words Butter no Parsnips”

Dr Bruce Ritson

The White Paper: An overview and the evidence base for smoking cessation

Professor Ann McNeill

Prospects for reducing tobacco-related harm: what does research on smoker behaviour teach us?

Dr Martin Jarvis

Nicotine replacement therapy and smoking cessation policy in the UK

Professor Peter Hajek

Pre-teen drug misuse: a challenge for policy and practice in the United Kingdom

Dr Neil McKeganey

Substance misuse in Glasgow and Edinburgh: one country, worlds apart

Dr Laurence Gruer

Social deprivation and other environmental influences in drug abuse

Professor James Roy Robertson

General Practitioner and the drug user – what can we do?

Dr Clare Gerada

Genetic research in alcohol dependence

Dr David Goldman

What does the Human Genome Mapping Project have to offer alcoholics?

Dr David Ball

Tackling Alcohol Together

Dr Duncan Raistrick

Evidence of efficacy of pharmacological methods to prevent relapse in alcohol dependence

Professor Jonathan Chick

The pharmacological basis of treatments

Professor Hilary Little

Social Behaviour and Network Therapy in the UK Alcohol Treatment Trial: basic principles and early experiences

Dr Alex Georges Copello