Healthcare professionals can generate important clinical questions for addiction research. Answering such questions by conducting a Cochrane review of
Alcohol and opioid agonist treatment: A community response
September 9th, 2014 – From research to practice: The Community Response organisation in Dublin is pleased to announce a new stabilization programme
Urban Overdose Hotspots: New Paper out Now
Dublin ambulances see an opioid overdose every day; many times near the methadone clinics. Do people shoot heroin around methadone clinics? Yes. The
The mystery of change (-ing others): article in the Irish Psychologist
How may I help you– change you?* “Change is the Law of Life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” -
Recruitment shock
3.6% response rate? Shocking! For our new feasibility study, we sent over 200 invitations to primary care doctors in Ireland and the invitees
Honor pot: testing doctors’ drug counselling skills in a new pilot study in Ireland
In our new new paper, we outline plans for doing a study which should tell us whether doctors and agonist patients accept psychological interventions
Helping agonist patients with alcohol problems: A NEW guide for primary care staff
What should doctors do differently when screening for alcohol use and delivering brief interventions for agonist patients in primary care? General
Why Empirically Supported Psychosocial Treatments Are Important for Drug Users? New research project
UL researchers have been awarded €300,000 by Ireland’s Health Research Board to develop and evaluate psychosocial interventions for drug and alcohol
Symposium of the Society for the Study of Addiction: A cultural shift? (#ssa)
Among the Top 5 conferences in the Addiction field worldwide, the SSA symposium (http://www.addiction-ssa.org/) came to pass last week in York (UK).