Annual Conference 2024

Crowne Plaza, Hawthorn Square, Newcastle

14-15 November

‘Celebrating excellence in addiction science’

The SSA’s Annual Conference is the UK’s foremost gathering of addiction researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and experts by experience.

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Programme highlights

09:30–10:45

Spotlight session: How can drug policy reduce the harms of cannabis use?

11:00–12:30

Choose from:
  • Emerging approaches for improving the study and understanding of gambling-related harm
  • Digital interventions and technologies
  • Past, present, and future of the SSA

13:30–15:00

Choose from:
  • Addressing public priorities for alcohol research through the evaluation of novel interventions
  • Substance-related deaths
  • Workshop: Involving and engaging people with living and lived experience in addiction research

15:00–16:30

Poster session

16:30–17:50

Society Lecture: Tobacco harm reduction – controversies and potential resolutions

09:15–10:15

How do people with alcohol and drug problems experience stigma, and what can we as researchers do about it?

10:30–12:00

Choose from:
  • New and emerging treatment systems
  • Health inequalities and substance use

13:00–14:30

Choose from:
  • Reducing illicit drug use in young people
  • Substance use and co-occurring mental health problems
  • Mechanisms of action

14:30–15:45

The NIHR Policy Research Unit in Addictions – a new opportunity to inform government decisions about addictive products, behaviours and systems

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