Change is the ultimate law of life. Those that do not change and adapt, do not survive. In the life of scientific meetings, this means constantly
New paper out now: Primary care distributes life-saving medication for 17 years
The year was 1996 and Ireland was recovering from a recent heroin epidemic. Methadone, a medical replacement drug for heroin, was jut making its way
Irish doctors trained to save by the nose
Can junior doctors learn to spray a life-saving medication into noses of people who overdosed on opioids? A new study from Ireland attempted to answer
AMERSA 39th Annual National Conference
November 5th, the national conference of the Association for Medical Education and Research in Addiction - AMERSA 39th - took place in Washington, DC.
Addiction Health Services Research Conference 2015 | #AHSR2015
The healthcare landscape is changing. The delegates at the 2015 Addiction Health Services Research conference met to exchange ideas about how to
First European conference on dependencies 2015: Keynotes #LxAddictions15
A major new event in the addictions landscape - the organisers claimed. To date, there hasn't been a Europe-wide meeting on addictions. Many smaller
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
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
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