September 2021

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Joint Australasian HIV&AIDS and Sexual Health Conferences will once again be hosted in a virtual format between 6 to 9 September, following the success of last year’s inaugural virtual conferences.

Hosted by Alcohol Change UK, the Centre for Applied Autism Research at the University of Bath, and the Royal College of Psychiatrists

Autistic people are as likely to experience substance use issues as anyone else. But when they do, they find it much harder to get the support they need. 

A cross-party discussion on the impact of health-harming products to launch a new report on by ten of Scotland's leading health charities

About this event

On the 6th September, we, a group of Scotland’s leading health charities, will publish a report calling for action on health-harming products to prevent ill health and death from non-communicable diseases – such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease, lung disease and stroke.

Join us for the next free PPW Wednesday webinar.  Additional information is below.

Screening & Brief Intervention Practice for Youth Substance Use Prevention & Wellness: Free Webinar

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The DG Murray Trust, in collaboration with various experts, recently completed a report called 'Five Best Buys for Alcohol Harms Reduction: A review of policy and legislative framework in South Africa.' and invites you to engage with its findings.

The workshop will explore effective policy reforms for the regulation of the alcohol industry in South Africa.

Register to join the 2-day seminar on the 9th & 10th of September 2021.

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Addiction and the Family Network (AFINet) is holding a small-scale virtual conference on 9-10 September 2021. There will be two half-days at different times of the day, which will allow our members and others from various time zones across the world to present and discuss their current work.

AFINet is currently accepting abstracts. Each slot will be 20 minutes – 15 minutes for the presentation and 5 minutes for discussion.

Deadline 15th July.

During the next Prevention Talk, APSI will be addressing the following question: How do we in the prevention community need to adapt evidence-based interventions to fit different prevention delivery systems and contexts?

Prevention scientists have developed many efficacious preventive interventions in a variety of areas.

Despite the demonstrated effectiveness of many evidence-based preventive interventions (EBPIs),  two pervasive problems limiting their widespread use are:

(a) low rates of adoption, and

(b) limited sustainability. 

ISSUP Argentina invites you to participate in a webinar on the conceptual framework and evaluation of a prevention experience based on sports activities.

The webinar will take place on Monday, September 13, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. (Argentina Time).

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Caitlin Notley, Eric Carlin, Frances Campbell and Robyn Burton talk about academic and non-academic career options after the PhD.

About this event:

The next SSA ECR network event focuses on career options after the PhD, with a chance to pose your questions to our expert panel of speakers.

SRNT-E is the European chapter of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco.

The 2021 SRNT-E conference will be organised virtually on 15-17th September 2021. 

Speakers will discuss the latest research on the following topics:

• Clinical
• Public health
• Policy/Economy
• Basic Science/PreClinical

You can find out more about the programme and keynote speakers here.

TRAINING NAME: INEP Plus, an Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice (INEP)

LOCATION (COUNTRY & REGIONS):   Pakistan

STAKE HOLDER/IMPLEMENTING AGENCY:  ISSUP Pakistan Chapter

FUNDING SOURCE:    ISSUP Pakistan Chapter

TRAINERS/FACILITATORS: 

Dr. Sajid Iqbal Alyana, Ms. Shabana Khaliq Chaudry    

Guam’s Second Annual Conference  on Substance Use Disorders Among Pacific Islanders will take place on the 21st-22nd of September. You can register for the event here.

Earn up to 8.0 CEs while attending presentations in the following featured tracks: 

• Children and Family 
• Clinical Interventions
• Emerging Issues 
• Mental Health 
• Populations with Specific Service Needs 
• Prevention

Ecolink Institute is  organizing an online training on Universal Treatment Curriculum on Substance Use Disorder in Tamil language for the Tamil speaking SUD practitioners around the glove, especially from Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, and India. Initially, the course is limited to only Curriculum 1 & 2 and the full course may be offered in future. Global Trainer, Dr.Thirumagal V will be the key resource person. Grab this unique opportunity and understand the science of addiction and evidence based  treatment models in your local language. 

Objectives:

1. Identify purposes for evaluating substance use prevention programs.
2. Describe measurement tools and measures to assess substance use Prevention Plus
Wellness (PPW) programs.
3. Examine evaluation designs for determining risk/protective factor and behavior effects of prevention programs.
4. Explore case studies of PPW program evaluations.

Register:  https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LajsV-XuQZ6immw85zTMrw

INEBRIA are delighted to invite you to the 17th Annual INEBRIA Conference in Goa, India.

Brief interventions can play an integral role in addressing the burden, harms and societal costs associated with alcohol use. However, there is limited uptake of brief interventions in culturally diverse and low resource settings. This necessitates a critical appraisal of what we have achieved until now as a field, and debate and discussion on the next steps for brief interventions in specific cultural contexts. 

Alcohol Change UK’s 2021 online conference

On 22 and 23 September, we’ll be bringing you a conference that puts alcohol in context: an opportunity to reflect on the reasons people drink, and the many routes to harm reduction and recovery for a diverse population. Across the two days of Rebuild and Recover, we’ll be seeking to learn the lessons of the lockdown and understand how best to respond to the challenges of the post-pandemic world. Speakers include:

2nd Euro Depression and Psychiatry Congress pertains to Psychiatry and Depressive Disorders such as anxiety, depression, bipolar, behavioral disorders, post-traumatic, seasonal depression, persistent depressive disorder, stress and understanding the effective diagnosis & treatment to identify and help to facilitate the recovery of someone suffering from psychiatric disorders.

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This webinar will focus on the interconnecting policy and practice that shapes the experiences of people with drug and alcohol problems within the criminal justice system. It will be chaired by Mike Trace, Chief Executive of Forward Trust and Collective Voice Trustee.

ISSUP Argentina invites you to participate in a webinar on the role that affective sexual diversity and trans and non-binary people have as a determining factor of health in the field of Addictions.

The webinar will take place on Tuesday, September 28, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. (Argentina Time).

The ESSD was founded in 1990 as an association of European social scientists working on drug issues. Its principal aims are to promote social science approaches to drug research, particularly support qualitative and novel research methods, and encourage early career researchers.

The ESSD holds annual conferences to promote collaboration and cooperation among researchers working in the drugs field.

Since 1990, more than thirty annual conferences have been organised in over twenty countries, alternating between North, South, East and West Europe.

EUSPR are pleased to announce that the 12th EUSPR Conference and Members’ Meeting will take place online on 30th September – 1st October 2021, with workshops scheduled for the 29th September.

The theme this year is ‘Prevention in a COVID Recovery Society’ and the conference will discuss the challenges of planning and implementing prevention approaches in this new normality. We encourage participants to share their experiences on:

• The impact of COVID 19 on health, health behaviours, and key risk and protective factors