The medical degree isn't a vaccine against addiction. “If you don’t drink as much as your GP, you don't drink too much,” an old saying goes. When
Which talking therapies work for drug users with alcohol problems? A Cochrane update
Have you ever had an unresolved question and you kept asking again, again and again, until you got the answer? We wanted to find out whether talking
Does it work? When doctors need evidence
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
Can GPs help problem drinkers who also use other drugs? Article in the Forum magazine
The Forum magazine is the official journal of the Irish College of General Practitioners ICGP. Published monthly by MedMedia since 1991, it is
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.” -
A decade in the addictions field
Edited March 4, 2020 by janklimas ... or women, men and non-binary folk who mentored me. Career in addiction health services research can be
Relationships of drug users change, but slowly
Are social relationships sensitive to therapeutic change? The ‘‘Phase Model of Change’’ - a famous model in psychotherapy - says that change in
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