Are you a policymaker, practitioner, or researcher? Do you have at least 12 months’ experience in the addiction field, or do you have academic or professional qualifications in the subject of addiction? Become a member of the SSA and receive benefits including access to our journals, funding schemes, and reduced-rate attendance at our Annual Conference.
Benefits
- access to both Society journals, Addiction and Addiction Biology
- access to the SSA’s funding schemes
- reduced registration fee for the SSA’s Annual Conference
- networking opportunities among people with shared professional and scholarly interests based in many different countries
- opportunity to be a part of the SSA’s ongoing work
- access to the SSA library at the Wellcome Institute in London
- voting rights, and ability to attend general meetings and stand for election to the Board of Trustees
Fees
General membership costs £85 a year. Concessionary membership is available for a reduced fee of £30 to current or former members who have retired, are unwaged, or who are former SSA student associates whose academic studies have ended in the past five years. Concessionary membership offers all benefits and rights attached to standard membership.
Application process
To apply for membership, please complete and submit the following form. We will write to confirm your application has been formally accepted (usually within a few days).
Please note:
- Acceptance as a member of the SSA is not a professional endorsement or validation, and we do not give permission to cite SSA membership on personal profiles for this purpose.
- It is a condition of membership that we record each member’s home address.
- All memberships will expire on 31 December 2025.
