Substance Use and Misuse - Research Institutes Interdisciplinary SeminarSeries 2012
Reading and Discussion Group
8th March
Reading: Heyman G. ‘Received Wisdom Regarding the Roles of Craving and Dopamine in Addiction: A Response to Lewis’s Critique of Addiction: A Disorder of Choice’Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2011, 6, 2, 156-160.Available at:
28th March
Reading: Council of the European Union, EU Drugs Strategy (2005 – 2012). Available at:
17th April
Reading: Koshy P. Mackenzie M. Tappin D. & Bauld, L. ‘Smoking Cessation during Pregnancy: The Influence of Partners, Family and Friends on Quitters and Non-quitters’ Health and Social Care in the Community, 2010, 18, 5, 500 – 510.Available at:
24th May
Reading:Black H. Gill J. Chick J. ‘The Price of a Drink: Levels of Consumption and Price paid per Unit of Alcohol by Edinburgh’s ill Drinkers with a Comparison to Wider Alcohol Sales in Scotland’ Addiction, 2011, 106, 4, 729 -736.Available at:
5th September
Reading: Frisher M. Crome I. Martino O. Croft P. ‘Assessing the Impact of Cannabis use on Trends in Diagnosed Schizophrenia in the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2005’ Schizophrenia Research, 2009, 113, 123-128.Available at:
4th October
Reading: West R. ‘The multiple facets of cigarette addiction and what they mean for encouraging and helping smokers to stop’ Available online at:[Under heading PRIME Theory to understand cigarette addiction]
5th November
Reading: Kaner, E.et al. ‘Screening and brief interventions for hazardous and harmful alcohol use in primary care: a cluster randomised controlled trial protocol’, BMC Public Health, 2009, 9, 287 Available at:
Each meeting will be held (12.30 – 1.30) in the meeting room on level 3 Buchanan House (covered in blue netting!), 58 Port Dundas Rd, Glasgow G4 0HF (turn to the left after exiting the lift). Tea, coffee and cold drinks will be provided, please bring your own lunch. For details please contact:
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