I’m delighted to be invited to this year’s Smoking Cessation and Health as a keynote speaker. I’ll be highlighting the evidence on what more we can do to help people living with severe disadvantage to quit smoking. Conference is in Manchester (directly after SRNT Europe), also online 👇🏼

We're looking for individuals who provided direct care to individuals with substance use or addiction in the past year to take a brief online survey. tinyurl.com/hrprov

📢 New publication! 📢 Should we promote alcohol problems as a continuum? Implications for policy & practice Really proud of of this one and fantastic working with Cassie Boness, PhD & @KatieWitkiewitz Summary 🧵👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… @DEPPJournal

Our new PLOS One paper using multi group SEM to explore UK alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic. We explored the role of drinking motives, employment and subjective mental health Adam Qureshi @heim_derek journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

🗣️New publication🗣️ 'Why stigma matters in addressing alcohol harm' With Georg Schomerus for Drug&AlcoholReview It's quite concise & #openaccess but summary 🧵👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… #stigma #AUD #recovery

📣 See 👇🏼 This year’s ⁦SRNT Europe⁩ conference starts with a debate! Please send me your thoughts, this should include a title and 3 bullet points. My email is below, ideas will be reviewed by the conference team 🙌🏼

New episode, now also on YouTube! Evaluating the Huberman Lab alcohol episode youtu.be/Y9xH0_X5kV8 #alcoholpodcast #alcohol #addiction #recovery

Pleased to announce two of our four debaters Professor Lynne Dawkins and Professor Wayne Hall

🚨New publication (open access): '(Mis)understanding alcohol use disorder: Making the case for a public health first approach' Big thanks to amazing co-authors Cassie Boness, PhD Robyn Burton sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

"Whilst alcohol use disorder (AUD) is the main contemporary concept for identifying and seeking to address alcohol problems from clinical and policy perspectives, few members of the public recognise or use the term AUD, or think of them in terms of AUD concepts"

'Can ‘justified disapproval’ be separated from addiction stigma? An empirical focus is required.' Pre-print of an empirically focused evaluation on whether 'stigma' (or more refined normative approaches) can be a 'force for good'. osf.io/vx9r3

I am very excited to be in the marvellous Glasgow next month giving a keynote UK Society for Behavioural Medicine annual conference, I will be discussing "Can tobacco harm reduction interventions reduce smoking-related inequalities?"... well.. maybe! uksbm.org.uk/events/annual-…

New paper🚨 Researchers' experiences of the design and conduct challenges associated with parallel-group cluster-randomised trials and views on a novel open-cohort design Open-cohort studies could solve some of the issues with cRCTs Behavioural Science & Health UCL UCL_Tobacco_Alcohol journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

📢New publication📢 'Look away now! Defensive processing and unrealistic optimism by level of alcohol consumption' Thread on key findings🧵..

How did the 'alcoholism' model come to dominate public understanding of alcohol problems? And why does this slow public health progress?❤️‍🩹 🎙️Our latest podcast with Dr James Morris explains🎙️ Click the links at the bottom to listen: ias.org.uk/podcast/how-th…

Register now for our 3rd Alcohol Occasional seminar! James Morris & @GemmaMi38728064 will discuss how the language we choose may help us to reduce alcohol-related harms. 🗓️ Wed 22 May ⏰ 12.45 - 2pm 🌐 Online bit.ly/4attK0q

Just over a week to go until our 3rd Alcohol Occasional seminar! James Morris & @GemmaMi38728064 will discuss how the language we choose may help us to reduce alcohol-related harms. 🗓️ Wed 22 May ⏰12.45 - 2pm Register here for free: bit.ly/4attK0q

🚨WE'RE RECRUITING!🚨 Are you looking to cut down on your alcohol consumption? We are researching the potential of the psychedelic drug DMT to help reduce alcohol intake. Who we're looking for: - Age: 21-65 - Heavy drinkers - Based in London 👉bit.ly/unity-ucl

New publication📢 Can ‘justified disapproval’ be separated from addiction stigma? An empirical focus is required A thread 🧵 tandfonline.com/eprint/NDGSVI2…