alcohol

The power of virtual communities for real-life change: digital technologies to reach SDG 3.5 and to promote well-being

11 February 2021

Online

The 59th session of the Commission for Social Development (CSocD59) will take place from February 8 to 17 in 2021.

The priority theme is “Socially just transition towards sustainable development: the role of digital technologies on social development and well-being of all.”

Language matters: Contemporary discursive constructions of alcohol use.

17 February 2021

Online

Wednesday 17th February 2020, 1-2pm

‘Dangerous data’ Part 2: A Gentlemanly Start. An Effectiveness Bank Hot Topic

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‘DANGEROUS DATA’ PART 2: A GENTLEMANLY START Second weekly instalment of the series on controlled drinking as a treatment goal traces the start of the controversy to early 1960s London, where psychiatrist D.L. Davies opened the first...

Women and Alcohol

16 February 2021

Online

In the first of ASCERT's 2021 Seminar Series, Women and Alcohol will consider how the experience of alcohol is different for women, including alcohol-related harm, targeting by the alcohol industry, societal attitudes towards women’s drinking and barriers to support and

Managing to Extract Therapy from Punishment. Effectiveness Bank Alcohol Treatment Matrix, Cell C5

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3 February 2021

MANAGING TO EXTRACT THERAPY FROM PUNISHMENT Key studies on the role of management in the treatment of problem drinking in criminal justice settings and/or to safeguard the community. A rare review specific to this context argues that “the...

Attachment Style and Addictions (Alcohol, Cigarette, Waterpipe and Internet) among Lebanese Adolescents: A National Study

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16 April 2020

Tobacco use amongst the youth is a growing prevalent issue, with traditional tobacco products, such as the narguileh, being the main culprit. One survey indicated that the rise in tobacco use, through narguileh smoking amongst teenagers is...

‘Dangerous Data’ Part 1: Why the Heat? An Effectiveness Bank Hot Topic

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1 February 2021

‘DANGEROUS DATA’ PART 1: WHY THE HEAT? Each Monday over the next eight weeks we divide up the hot topic released last week on controlled drinking as a treatment goal and serve it to you in bite-size chunks. The series starts with part 1,...

The Trickier the Situation, the More the Worker Matters. Highlight from Effectiveness Bank Alcohol Treatment Matrix Cell B5

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THE TRICKIER THE SITUATION, THE MORE THE WORKER MATTERS Cell B5’s research-derived understandings of therapeutic work in a criminal justice or family protection context funnelled into the final section, tempting the formulation of a general...

Alcohol and the Coronavirus Pandemic: Individual, Societal and Policy Perspectives

Book

26 January 2021

The report “Alcohol and the coronavirus pandemic: individual, societal and policy perspectives” is the latest research publication in the series “Alcohol and Society” that has been published since 2013 to annually collate the latest...

‘Dangerous Data’: Drinking after Dependence. An Effectiveness Bank Hot Topic

Book

25 January 2021

‘DANGEROUS DATA’: DRINKING AFTER DEPENDENCE First cracked in 1960s London, the orthodoxy that abstinence is the only acceptable and feasible treatment goal for ‘alcoholics’ seemed shattered in 1973 by evidence that even physically dependent...