In his speech to the UN General Assembly, the Colombian president highlighted the necessity of ending the war on drugs and saving the environment. Read more: bit.ly/3eOaJOx

Interesting new paper from our research assistant Joanna Vamvakopoulou looking at the effect of selective D3 antagonism on BOLD response to aversive image processing in drug-dependent individuals. frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… Frontiers - Psychiatry

Check out the protocol of our current study FORWARDS-1, an adaptive, single-blind, placebo-controlled ascending dose study of acute baclofen in methadone-maintained opioid dependence. trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

It was brilliant to host delegates from 18 countries to Suicide and Self-harm Early and Mid-Career Researchers’ Forum over the last two days. Really inspirational; current/next generation of suicide & self-harm research is in really good hands #ScienceToStopSuicide #EMCRF23

Very exciting to have Joanna Vamvakopoulou present her first poster on motivational abnormalities in self-harm behaviour at #EMCRF23 Here’s to a great start of a PhD soon Mood Instability Research Group, Imperial Imperial Department of Brain Sciences Imperial Psychiatry David Nutt Centre for Psychedelic Research

I am pleased to announce that I presented my poster at the 36th annual European College of Neuropsychopharmacology Congress on harm reduction for methadone maintained opioid dependent individuals at risk for opioid induced respiratory depression. @ECNPtweets Imperial Addiction Group

Job alert! Join our team Imperial College London Imperial Addiction Group as a Research Nurse to help deliver an innovative clinical trial in opioid addiction. Based in Manchester, partnering with Change Grow Live and Greater Manchester Mental Health, #addiction, closes tomorrow, 6 Dec! jobs.ac.uk/job/DEB269/