Last night, our Cochrane review about Psychosocial interventions to reduce alcohol consumption in concurrent problem alcohol and illicit drug
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
INVEST-ing: Jan Klimas teams up with US university
Jan Klimas, PhD, joins the Western States Node on March 1, 2013, as a NIDA CTN INVEST Fellow. NIDA is the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and
Square peg in a round hole: You can’t always do a meta-analysis.
"As they say in the West of Ireland, you can't fit a square peg in a round hole*. If some trials in your systematic review are like that round hole
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).
Youth Mental Health Conference: Press release (#Acamh2012)
Youth mental health is a key health priority in Ireland; early intervention, engagement and innovation are central to its promotion. The Third
Submitting ethics for new research: killing so many trees
Ethical principles, ethics committees and researchThis has been a busy week from an ethics perspective. All research should be ethical and adhere to
Final programme: Promoting Youth Mental Health through Intervention, Engagement and Innovation (#Acamh2012)
Download conference programme here Final PROGRAMME & REGISTRATION 3rd National One-Day Research Conference on Youth Mental
Research-into-practice: US drugs expert talks in Ballyfermot
“You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.” Al Capone in the Untouchables (1987) It’s Friday