BMJ Live Conference
BMJ Live is a free online global event featuring a range of sessions covering clinical webinars, leadership skills, career progression, one-to-one careers advice and wellbeing.
Practice
Who's Doing What?: The Epidemiology of Adolescent Substance Use
This free webinar will review the epidemiology of adolescent substance.
The speaker will discuss the substances most often used by youth, look at trends in youth substance use over time, and discuss the protective role of family and positive social supports.
As a result of participating in this webinar, you will be able to:
The Impact of Substance Use on the Developing Adolescent Brain
This free webinar will review developmental neurobiology and the impact of psychoactive substances in general on brain development.
The speaker will then discuss the particular impacts of alcohol, THC, and nicotine on the brain and their specific impacts on brain development.
As a result of participating in this webinar, you will be able to:
Journal of Addictions Nursing Club Meeting
Wednesday, October 14 at 12noon EST / 17 Greenwich time
AN Journal Club Meeting
Join IntNSA for the on-line Journal Club on Wednesday, October 14 at 12noon EST / 17 Greenwich time. The Journal Club will be discussing the article:
International Nurses Society on Addictions (IntNSA) 2020 Virtual Conference
The International Nurses Society on Addictions (IntNSA) will run its first-ever Virtual Educational Conference between October 4 through October 31.
The 2020 NDARC Annual Research Symposium- Session Three: E-cigarettes and tobacco: Policy, trends and interventions
Date: Thursday, 19 November
Time: 9:00am – 10:30am
REGISTER HERE
The third session is focused on the latest research on e-cigarettes and tobacco.
This session includes presentations on NDARC’s tobacco and e-cigarettes stream, including the e-cigarette surveillance project and smoking cessation trials.
Master’s Program in Addiction Policy and Practice
Georgetown Announces Master’s Program in Addiction Policy and Practice. The new program seeks to build a national policy workforce to respond to one of the most untreated chronic health conditions in the United States. Georgetown University...
‘It’s everywhere’ – alcohol’s public face and private harm
The Alcohol Health Alliance UK (AHA) is supporting the Commission on Alcohol Harm: An Inquiry into the Effects of Alcohol on Society. The Commission was established to examine the current evidence on alcohol harm, recent trends in alcohol...
GTNF 2020
GTNF 2020 VIRTUAL: Bringing the global conversation to you
The world’s leading annual forum discussing the future of the tobacco and nicotine industries is going virtual this September for the first time in its 13-year history. Take part in four days of stimulating debates on shaping the industries’ futures with delegates from all over the world.
Australian National Alcohol Strategy 2019-2028
The Australian Government has released a new strategy to address alcohol-related harms in Australian communities. These harms include violence, disease, injuries, road deaths and an estimated 4,000 alcohol-attributable deaths per year1. The...
