October 2017

The 2017 National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) Annual Research Symposium will be held on Tuesday, 3 October and Wednesday, 4 October 2017 at the John Niland Scientia Conference and Events Centre at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia. 

More than 2.5 million Americans are struggling with addiction to opioids, including prescription painkillers and heroin.

The Global Alcohol Policy Conference (GAPC) is the leading forum for the world’s alcohol policy makers and researchers. The conference will be held from Wednesday 4 to Friday 6 October 2017 at the Pullman Albert Park Melbourne in Australia.

Team ALPHA (Alcohol and Public Health) at Teesside University are hosting a one-day international conference focusing on alcohol and the criminal justice system at our Darlington Campus. 

10 October 2017: Webinar "Mental Health in the Workplace"

World Mental Health Day is an opportunity to discuss the mental health of employees, which is often not considered. The workplace is a very important setting to promote practices that support people with mental health problems and protect the well-being of all workers.

The 2017 International Drug Policy Reform Conference will be held in Atlanta from October 11 - 14. This year attendees will have the opportunity to spend three days interacting with people committed to finding alternatives to the

Tuesday, October 17 / 11:00-12:30

Round table

Coordinator: María Elena Medina-Mora (ECN)

Brain, behavior and society, the revolution in the conception and mental illness care

Participants: Patricia Ostrosky (II biomedical-UNAM), Humberto Nicolini (National Institute of genomic medicine) and María Elena Medina-Mora (NEC and National Institute of Psychiatry Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz)

The 2017 Addiction Health Services Research (AHSR) Conference will be held in Madison, Wisconsin from October 18 - 20, 2017.

The 5th International Conference on Novel Psychoactive Substances will be held from 23 to 24 October 2017 at the United Nations in Vienna, Austria. The conference is jointly organised by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug

This international symposium will put the spotlight on key developments relevant to road safety in recent years and highlight the implications of these for drug-impaired driving. 

The Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) is pleased to invite you to the national launch of SHAAP’s ‘Alcohol-related liver disease: Guidance for Good Practice’ and delighted that Dr Catherine Calderwood, the Chief Medical Officer, has agreed to speak.

Tuesday, 24 October, 19:00 to 21:00 hours (time of the city of Mexico)

Symposium
MARIJUANA AND HEALTH: CONSIDERATIONS ON MEDICINAL AND RECREATIONAL USE

Coordinator
ACAD. Dr. Manuel Mondragon and Kalb
National Commission against Addictions, academic honorary of the Mexican Academy of surgery

The 2nd European Conference on Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies is a multidisciplinary conference that provides a forum for networking across the addictions.

The conference is organised around three themes:

The 19th International Society of Addiction Medicine (ISAM) Annual Conference will be held in Abu Dhabi, October 26th - 29th, 2017. "New frontiers" is the focus of the meeting where recent scientific discoveries in the field of