What is the role of primary care in addiction treatment? How can be addiction treatment better integrated in the general medical settings? These and
Irish Network of Medical Educators (#INMED2014): The 7th Annual Scientific Meeting
A network of volunteers for all interested in medical education on the island of Ireland met in Belfast yesterday. The network's aim is to improve
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
Doing research with busy doctors – an open space world
Family doctors are notoriously busy. Lack of their time is the number #1 barrier of doing anything outside their patient workload, including research.
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
What agonist patients think about alcohol #SBIRT? A new paper out now
What do patients attending family physicians for methadone treatment think of screening and brief interventions for alcohol problems? Except for being
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