Oral Session and Poster Submissions

Individuals are invited to submit poster and oral platform presentations for the conference programme.

Current Submissions include the following:

• perception of private university student in jakarta towards harm reduction in drug addiction control program
• reduced brain activation during emotion recognition :endophenotype for vulnerability to alcohol dependence?
• sexual dysfunctions among patients with dependence
• A critical review on macao responsible gambling policies and practices
• A model for treating hcv hepatitis in patients receiving methadone maintenance therapy.
• A new patient preferred model of communication during acute benzodiazepine withdrawal
• A new patient preferred model of communication during acute benzodiazepine withdrawal
• Addiction: a therapeutic model for the restructuring of identity
• Adolescent pathological gambling (pg): amino acids-natural molecules in care & cure
• Alcohol and drug use among assault injured youth in an urban emergency department
• Alcohol and substance use patterns of adolescents: a sample from turkey
• Alcohol dependence in later life
• Alcohol use and work stress among workers of a public university
• Alexithymia and alcohol consumption: the role of the “affective” and “cognitive” factors
• An open randomized trial comparing disulfiram and naltrexone in the treatment of adolescents with alcohol dependence
• Assessing the impact of training health professionals edibs - telephone survey
• Assessment of the prevalence and treatment needs of alcohol use disorders presenting to clinic services for older adults: a feasibilty study for educational intervention
• Association between immigrant status and history of compulsory addiction treatment in a national sample of individuals assessed for addiction disorders through the swedish public welfare system
• At risk drinking among elderly in hospital settings
• Audit functioning in the identification of alcohol intensive consumption by youngsters
• Avoiding unintended consequence of aggressive pain management in chronic pancreatitis
• Begaviour determines behaviour - implications for smoking prevention
• Bioethical differences between drug addiction treatment professionals inside and outside the russian federation
• Bipolar spectrum in two clinical samples: cocaine problematic users vs psychiatric outward patients.
• Cannabis: an ethnographic exploration of individual trends and socio-cultural context
• Caseload review of clients within a community substance misuse team
• Categorization of users of crack-cocaine and multiple drugs in a university general hospital within the last 10 years
• Cellular phone addiction: forgetfulness among the regular cellular phone users
• Characteristics of individuals seeking treatment for buprenorphine abuse and comparison to those seeking treatment for heroin abuse in finland between 1997 and 2008
• Clinical signs of intoxication and importance of blood alcohol concentration assessment
• Comorbidity of depression among opioid abusers: a comparison between needle users and non-needle users
• Comorbidity of mood and substance use disorders in obese patients with binge-eating disorder
• Comparison of gene expression between success and failure in smoking cessation
• Comparison of intesity of withdrawal symptoms in patients on methadone and patients on buprenorphine
• Comparison of pulmonary function tests and respiratory symptoms between water pipe and cigarette smokers
• Dating violence and substance abuse: are they two sides of the same coin?
• Deep repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (drtms): effects on different lifetime drinking-histories.
• Development of multi-dimensional evaluation scale of nicotine dependence and genetic polymorphism of
• Diagnostic strategies and brief interventions with patients treated in a hepatitis clinic of the hospital das clínicas of ribeirão preto
• Do spiritual add on intervention improove outcomes among methadone clients?
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• Drug use and cognitive mediation among university students: mental health, life skills and drug use
• Effectiveness and cost-effectivieness of buprenorphine naloxone vs wait list control rct
• Effectiveness of opioid substitution therapy among prisoners with drug dependence: a systematic review
• Evaluation of a national harm reduction policy on the effectiveness of hiv/aids control in taiwan
• Gender group treatment for women addicted to psychoactive substances
• Gender group treatment for women addicted to psychoactive substances
• Getting plugged in : an overview of internet addiction
• Ghrelin and drug reward
• Hangover and the risk of stroke in middle-aged men
• Illicit drug policies and hiv epidemics
• Introduction to social skills training at the centre for the treatment of drug addiction in ljubljana
• Investigating the relationship between instability of self-esteem, self-confidence, self-competence, self-liking, self-control perfectionism, oral health behaviours and smoking in romanian’s adults
• Is spirituality, religion associated with smoking behaviours?
• Is still being useful the "standard drink unit" in the assessment of consumption patterns by youngsters in spain?
• Kinesistherapy in a drug rehabilitation program
• Late onset female ("widow") alcoholism in russia
• Maladaptive coping strategies and alcohol abuse: the mediating role of alexithymia
• Mental problems among injecting drug user with hiv at kiosk for health information atma jaya catholic university of indonesia
• Methadone maintenance programs in the information health systems: clinical codification beyond cie 9
• Methadone maintenance treatment program in portuguese community pharmacies
• Methamphetamine neurotoxicity: a tale on striatal glutamatergic/gabaergic homeostasis disruption
• Mobile phone use during adolescence: a new addiction?
• Movement disorders induced by manganese: correlation between clinical course and hyperintensivity of the basal ganglia on the t1-weighted mri images
• Naltrexone for opioid dependence: oral, implantable, and injectable
• Nerve growth factor and brain derived neurotrophic factor in a fasd mouse model
• Neurological symptomatology in a young chronic alcoholic man with acute presentation after rapid weight loss: a case report and review of the literature.
• Open - placebo in treatment of alcohol dependence
• Patient-specific perceptions and effects on sublingual suboxone® maintenance treatment and their impact regarding the acceptance as treatment choice – a semi-qualitative analysis
• Patterns of drug use among treatment-seeking illicit drug abusers in finland: 1997 – 2008
• Patterns of early alcohol consumption among children
• Perceptions of benefits and risks of methamphetamine use
• Persistent decision making deficit in medication overuse headache
• Personality traits and alcohol binge drinking among students 12-18 old.
• Poly substance use and mental health among alcohol and drug users presenting for treatment
• Prescribing disulfiram: the use and abuse of placebo?
• Prevention of prescription oipioid abuse: medical and pharmaceutical approaches
• Problematic use of cocaine and personality: a controlled study
• Psychiatric and substance use disorders comorbidity: prevalence rate and retention in treatment.
• Psychological and periodontal correlates of smoking behaviour in romanian adults
• Psychological variables as risk factors in alcohol dependence. a preliminary study
• Psychopathology and alcohol use among nigerian undergraduates
• Psychotherapeutic treatment of cocaine addiction: a combination of transactional analysis and cognitive behavioral therapy
• Randomized comparative study of cyanamid and disulfiram in females with alcoholism
• Relationship between impulsivity and pathological gambling in texas hold'em poker players
• Response inhibition as a moderator of the relationship between impulsivity and alcohol use
• Service user perception and client waiting times in a community substance misuse service
• Severe pathological gambling: are bdnf serum changes predictive of a neurodegenerative process?
• Sleepiness, family functioning, psychological morbidity and social skills in adolescents: relationship with alcohol and knowledge of drugs
• Social networks in opiate substitution treatment
• Spatial memory, executive functions and alcohol binge drinking in university students
• Spectral analysis of eeg in alcohol dependence offenders
• Stressful events and the relationship to alcohol and tobacco consumption during pregnancy
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• The detection of alcohol-exposed pregnancies among an unselected group of 607 women in rome.
• The detection of alcohol-exposed pregnancies among an unselected group of 607 women in rome.
• The dissemination of brief interventions in the state of são paulo / brazil - comparative study
• The effects of alcohol on responses to nicotine-containing and denicotinized cigarettes in dependent and non-daily smokers
• The identity as a self-harmer: how it causes and effects on self-harm
• The nhs lanarkshire experience of using suboxone and methadone to treat opiate addiction
• The place of disulfiram in the present day pharmacotherapy of alcohol dependence
• The portuguese syringe exchange program - 18- years of experience
• The relationships between social axioms, therapeutic orientations, and burnout among addiction area professionals
• The risk starvation theory of alcoholism
• The role of healthcare in psychotherapeutic treatment of patients addicted of pas
• The us military as a natural experiment: drinking age, military environment, alcohol treatment episodes among veterans
• Therapists’ impact on the effectiveness of substance abuse treatment: results of a systematic review
• Title: a care pathway for ketamine detox complicated by bladder pain due to ketamine associated ulcerative cystitis
• Title: benzodiazepines and z-drugs in clinical practice - to use or not to use? - the new uk gp guidelines
• Title: is longer-term use of hypnotics ever justified? is there evidence that we could use hypnotics more rationally in the longer-term?
• Title: the bi-cycle model of dual diagnosis - a model for teaching the principles of dual diagnosis treatment to patients and clinical staff
• Title: the relationship between illicit ketamine use and ketamine associated health problems and urological symptoms – results of a questionnaire survey
• Tobacco use, work stress and associated factors among workers
• Use of acamprosate in the treatment of alcohol dependence: efficacy in the reduction of craving, relapse prevention and protracted withdrawal. an open observational study.
• Whanau ora: an indigenous concept and strategy to address intergenerational patterns of addictions
• Working memory, attention and alcohol binge drinking in youth.

The oral platforms will consist of 10 minute talks - 8 slides per person with 2 minutes allowed for questions.

Posters should be Portrait layout - maximum size A1 - which is 59.4 cm (23.4 in) width x 84.1 cm (33.1 in) height.  Only A1 size posters will be accepted and displayed on site.  Posters bigger than this will not be displayed. The secretariat prefers posters to be well structured in terms of having a Title, Author, Introduction, Hypothesis, Method, Results, Conclusion/Discussion, however we understand that this cannot always be the case.  Abstracts should be up to 500 words long and will be published in the final programme and abstract book.

Every effort is being made to have the abstracts published in the online journal - International Psychopharmacology.

Please complete all of the fields below and upload a short supporting Biography when making your submission. If your submission is accepted this information will be included in the conference programme and abstract book. Therefore please ensure you include all author names and relevant institutions/organizations.

Receipt of abstracts will acknowledged. If you have any queries regarding the submissions process or a previous submission please contact the Global Addiction Secretariat (select Contact Us from the menu above).