Last night, our Cochrane review about Psychosocial interventions to reduce alcohol consumption in concurrent problem alcohol and illicit drug users won the best paper award in the General Practice category at the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland (RAMI)
I’ve heard that it was a great award ceremony night, but I wasn’t able to attend because I’m in Portland (OR) working on a NIDA INVEST fellowship. One of our co-authors, Prof Dunne (UL GEMS Head of research) kindly received the award on our behalf.
Enda Connolly, the Chief Executive at the HRB (*review funder), commended on the award: ‘The HRB is committed to funding top-quality health research that is likely to have an impact on patient care and the health services that they receive,’read more at: http://www.hrb.ie/index.php?id=642&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=244
Or download the full text review here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD009269.pub2/abstract