As our hyper-globalized world brings people, substances, ideas, and potential sources of addiction closer together than ever, researchers, care providers, academics and professionals need to look at addiction studies in a new, dynamic light.
This two-week Summer Institute seeks to provide an interdisciplinary approach and lens to the study of addiction.
The programme is built around four themes:
This webinar will provide an overview of the Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) model for use with adolescents suspected of substance abuse. An emphasis will be placed on clinical applications of SBIRT.
Mar 27, 2019 12:00 PM in Pacific Time (US and Canada).
The European Federation of Therapeutic Communities (EFTC) Conference aims to provide to member organizations and colleagues from all disciplines of drug treatment the opportunity to present, question, clarify and communicate the results, and evaluation of the processes of addiction recovery achieved in therapeutic communities.
This year's MCA Symposium is taking place on the 13th of November 2019 at the BMA in London.
The full-day programme will cover the topic of alcohol and health from a number of perspectives, including the relationship between addiction and alcohol, educating medical students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, student mental health, training in addiction medicine and alcohol and the liver.
The Cross Party Group on Alcohol and Drugs will host their Annual General Meeting in the Scottish Parliament on the 26th of February 2019.
Scotland’s new drug strategy says that ‘there is a need (to) examine the links between the law relating to illegal drugs, and the prevention and treatment of drug harm’.
What if drug policy were shaped by science?
Scottish Drugs Forum has asked Professor Hart to envision a drug policy based not on beliefs and stigma; nor on moralising and media outrage but in what can be proved to be true.
