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Invited Speakers - SSA Annual Conference 2023


Society Lecture

Day 1
We are delighted that Professor Dr Wim van den Brink, professor of Addiction Psychiatry at the Amsterdam University Medical Centers and president of the International Collaboration of ADHD and Substance Abuse will give this year's Society Lecture.

Wim van den Brink

Society Lecture 2023
ADHD and addiction:
Epidemiology, genetics, neurobiology, prevention and treatment

The gambling white paper: Implications and controversies

Day 1

Fay Laidler, Richard Tunney, Steve Sharman, Matt Gaskell

The gambling white paper

Taking an intersectional approach towards understanding alcohol use and getting support in ethnic minority groups

Day 1

Jo-Anne Puddephatt

Understanding experiences of alcohol use among ethnic minority groups with a mental health problem: a framework analysis

Sharon Tabberer

Alcohol and belonging in LBGT+, Polish, and South Asian communities

Sarah Galvani

Gendered shame: supporting South Asian women and their families affected by problematic substance use

Socio-ecological considerations of substance use among refugees in Germany and the treatment challenges

Day 1

Ebtesam Saleh

Qualitative research in exploring and understanding substance use among refugees: A systematic review

Laura Hertner

Refugees (mis)using substances: Why social ecology matters – evidence from a multi-sited qualitative study in Germany

Panagiotis Stylianopoulos

German addiction care – A Delphi study on how to reach and treat refugees

Meaningfully involving public contributors in research: practical aspects of involvement and co-production

Day 1
Workshop

Becki Meakin

Meaningfully involving public contributors in research: practical aspects of involvement and co-production 

Roxane Lavanchy

Meaningfully involving public contributors in research: practical aspects of involvement and co-production

Health inequalities (in discussion with Roy Robertson)

Day 2

Emmert Roberts

Drug-related deaths among housed and homeless individuals in the United Kingdom and the United States

Miriam Hillyard

Barriers and facilitators to accessing addictions treatment services for sexual minority (LGBQ+) people: a systematic review

Cannabis use, addiction and mental health

Day 2

Rachel Lees

Childhood mental health as predictors of later problematic cannabis use in adolescence

Ad Gridley

Cannabis and schizoaffective disorder: A case study

Marta Di Forti

The cannabis clinic for patients with psychosis

No smoke without fire – triangulating the evidence on smoking and mental illness

Day 2

Chloe Burke

Prospective associations of smoking and new-onset mental health conditions

Jorien Treur

Using genetic information to infer causality between smoking and mental health problems

Gemma Taylor

Smoking cessation for improving mental health

SSA-sponsored researchers

Day 2
Featuring SSA prize-winners and SSA-supported early-career researchers

Ebtesam Saleh

Fred Yates prize-winner 2023
Breaking barriers: A journey to explore substance use among conflict-affected populations

Katherine East

Examining vaping harm perceptions and how they can be modified

Leon Xiao

Impact prize-winner 2023
Opening the compliance and enforcement loot box: a retrospective and some musings on media, practice, and policy impacts through academic research

Philip Newall

Impact prize-winner 2023
Dark nudges in gambling

Plenary session

Day 2

Anne Lingford-Hughes

Addiction Mission: Future opportunities for researchers and developing the ecosystem

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