SSA Annual Symposium 2015

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This link provides a commentary on the session: Take-home naloxone and the potential to prevent overdose deaths.

Recovery - 2015

The barriers that prevented me from addressing my alcohol dependency for twenty years – And how Soberistas.com seeks to address these

Ms Lucy Rocca

Club Soda – Behaviour change and social action

Laura Willoughby

Measuring recovery

Dr Duncan Raistrick

Take-home naloxone and the potential to prevent overdose deaths

How strong is the evidence for benefit from take-home naloxone?: Findings from application of the Bradford Hill criteria

Dr Rebecca McDonald

National co-ordination and provision of take-home naloxone: Scotland first

Dr Andrew McAuley

Experiences of naloxone resuscitation: A qualitative exploration

Professor Jo Neale

Pre-provision of emergency naloxone: Major achievements but substantial challenges remain

Professor Sir John Strang

New trial of naloxone nasal spray in Norway

Professor Thomas Clausen

Society Lecture 2015

Society Lecture 2015: Integrating treatment for substance use disorders into mainstream medicine: Who benefits?

Dr Thomas McLellan

SSA-sponsored session 2015

PhD Studentship: Adolescent alcohol beverage preferences and related harms: A latent class analysis

Ms Hannah Rose

PhD Studentship: Rating therapist competence

Ms Helen Crosby

Academic Fellowship: Q Sense: A context aware smartphone sensing app for smoking cessation

Dr Felix Naughton

Cannabis: New research

Cannabis: Pleasure, medicine and mental health

Professor Val Curran

Cannabis and mental health

Dr Paul Morrison

Recent findings from research funded by ARUK

The alcohol harm paradox

Professor Harry Sumnall

The role of social networking sites in young people’s drinking cultures

Ms Amanda Atkinson

Alcohol pricing and heavy drinkers in Scotland

Professor Jonathan Chick

Science & Politics – Synergy or Conflict?

Minimum unit pricing for alcohol

Professor Colin Drummond

The Family Drug and Alcohol Court

Professor Judith Harwin

SSA Symposium 2015: Conference Highlights

Professor Ann McNeill

The e-cigarette: Opportunity or threat?

Deborah Arnott

Naloxone on prison-release saves lives in Scotland, but why not elsewhere?

Dr Sheila Bird

The drive to time-limit OST – Is it austerity or ideology? Is it good science and good practice?

Ms. Annette Dale Perera

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