SSA Annual Symposium 2016

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Plenary session 1: ‘Back to the future: Addiction and the scientific method‘

Symposium 1: ‘Advancing methodology in addictions research‘

Plenary session 2: ‘Alcohol and Drugs History Society‘

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Back to the future: Addiction and the scientific method

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Addiction: From brain research to new treatments?

Professor David Nutt

From quackery to orthodoxy: history and the neuroscience of addiction

Dr Tim Hickman

A psychological perspective on addiction

Professor Robert West

Advancing methodology in addictions research

Session organised by the SSA journal Addiction

Iterative Categorization (IC): a systematic technique for analysing qualitative data

Professor Jo Neale

Characterising intervention content in terms of behaviour change techniques

Professor Susan Michie

Using Bayes Factors to test hypotheses in addiction science

Dr Emma Beard

Symposium 1: Advancing methodology in addiction research – Discussion

Professor Robert West

Society Lecture 2016

The Society Lecture 2016: The future of the international drug control treaties

Professor Wayne Hall

SSA-sponsored session 2016

Relapse and recovery of substance misusing offenders: the impact of childhood, trauma, relationships & psychological health

Dr Beverly Love

Capturing youth drinking: what’s been done and what needs to be done in psychometrics

Dr Paul Toner

‘The Alcohol Toolkit Study’: a national study of alcohol use in England

Dr Jamie Brown (2015)

E-cigarettes: the latest evidence from UK surveys

Dr Leonie Brose

Are all drug and behavioural addictions essentially identical pathological phenomena?

Session organised by the SSA journal Addiction Biology

Should compulsive sexual behavior be considered an addiction?

Valerie Voon

Behavioral addictions in addiction medicine: from mechanisms to practical considerations

Marc Potenza

Overlapping neuronal substrates of reactivity to drug, gambling, food and sexual cues: a comprehensive meta-analysis

Professor Rainer Spanagel

Plenary Session 2

Alcohol and Drugs History Society
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Addiction science meets addiction history: a necessary conversation

Dr Iain Smith

Turn on, tune in, step back: historical insights on the psychedelic renaissance

Professor Erika Dyck

‘Just For Today’: the rise of Narcotics Anonymous in the Netherlands since 1988

Dr Gemma Blok

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