Professor Copello’s research has led to major impacts on addiction treatment in the UK in recent years. He was Principal Investigator in the MRC funded UK Alcohol Treatment Trial, the largest trial of alcohol treatments conducted in the UK that informs effective and cost effective delivery of psychosocial interventions for alcohol problems. He led the […]
Viv Evans OBE is the Chief Executive of Adfam, a national charity supporting the loved ones of those struggling with drug and alcohol dependency. She will be talking about the impact of addiction on family and friends, and why addiction is a family disease. Viv will be highlighting their latest national campaign, “The forgotten 5 […]
Professor Markus Heilig is one of the most highly cited addiction researchers of his generation. He has led one of the largest research programmes on addictive disorders in the world at the US National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Currently, he is the Director at the Centre for Social and Affective Neuroscience, Department of […]
Mike Ward is a Senior Consultant at Alcohol Change UK and has worked in the field for over 30 years. He comes from a social work background and was working in alcohol outreach in the 1980s in London. He founded and led Surrey Alcohol and Drug Advisory Service which still exists 31 years later. He was formerly […]
James Morris is an alcohol, addiction and behaviour change specialist with lived experience of alcohol problems. James has over 16 years experience in the field specialising in behaviour change skills and alcohol brief interventions, and has trained thousands of health and social care roles. James is currently completing his PhD exploring how beliefs about alcohol […]
Rayyan is undertaking his PhD at Imperial College London, as part of Professor David Nutt’s research team, using neuroimaging to investigate addiction. He also works as an Honorary Research Assistant for Drug Science. Kate and Rayyan will be presenting the evidence and latest research about the impact that the alcohol has on the body, and […]
Kate is currently conducting her PhD at Imperial College London, as part of Professor David Nutt’s research team, looking at the neurobiology of reward and emotional processing in opiate and alcohol dependence. She is also a Clinical Research Fellow in the Division of Psychiatry, and in addition to her research she is working clinically in […]
