In 2012, we reviewed the evidence for talking therapies to reduce drinking among people who also use other drugs. This review was published by the
New BMJ personal view out now: Training in addiction medicine should be standardised and scaled up
Most health systems lack sufficiently trained doctors to reduce the public health consequences of this problem, writes J
New article out now: Wake up the doctors and teach them addictions
Addiction medicine has been 'practically untaught' for decades, but that's starting to change... Read the full text of my
Writing Together: Do Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth?
July 29: Nurse Liz Charalambous has shown how a Facebook group can really help boost writing (careers, June 3). We would like to take this idea one
International AIDS conference and the role of Drug Policy #IAS2015
Dr. Evan Wood speaks at #IAS2015 conference in Vancouver, on How Drug Policy should respond to the HIV Epidemic. International AIDS conference
Survival of the bitterest: Why dancers are good role models for scientists
What do dance and science have in common? What makes a successful choreographer or scientist? In this post, I speculate about the bitterness of the
Getting the most out of the Conference of the College on Problems of Drugs Dependence #CPDD2015
June 15, 2015 – The conference of the College of Problems on Drugs Dependence took place in Phoenix, Arizona. When I learned that my paper was
Voice to Voice Book launch June 18, 7 pm, Lost + Found Café, 33 W Hastings, Vancouver, BC
Thursdays Writing Collective invites you to celebrate the launch of our seventh anthology, Voice to Voice!Thursday, June 18, 2015Lost + Found
Random thoughts on academic mobility
What if you decide to take root, but discover a quicksand instead of a firm ground? Serendipitously, I have stumbled upon an essay about dislocation