Addiction Audio

Rob Calder talks to Dr Olga Perski about her recent research on just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs) whereby smartphones are used to help prevent lapses among people who are trying to quit or reduce alcohol, tobacco or other drug use. Dr Perski talks about why the literature is so complex and how defining JITAIs is difficult in the first place. She talks about the potential for Ecological...

Rob Calder talks to Professor John Marsden about cocaine cravings. Professor Marsden discusses the lack of pharmacological treatments for cocaine, and about his recent study using mental imagery to address cocaine cravings. He talks about the benefits of positive imagery compared with negative imagery. He then discusses how useful mixed-methods research can be and the importance of writing up data...

Professor Alison Ritter talks about her recent paper “Are market mechanisms associated with alcohol and other drug treatment outcomes” and about the Australian context of drug treatment provision and commissioning. We discuss the challenges of measuring outcomes against commissioning structures and Professor Ritter explains how funding arrangements can end up looking like a bowl of spaghetti. Alis...

Rob Calder talks to Professor Robert West about the Paper Authoring Tool (PAT). Professor West talks about how PAT can be used in the design and write-up phases of a randomised controlled trials, about how it saves time for reviewers and journals and about how using the PAT can make your research more rigorous, well reported and discoverable. He also discusses the future of research publishing and...

Jack Wilson talks to Rob Calder about his recent systematic review and meta-analysis on whether cannabis use increases the likelihood of later life opioid use or opioid use disorders. Jack talks about the limitations of the literature, the influence that the gateway hypothesis has had on policy and on some of the different types of studies that explore this issue. Wilson J, Mills K, Freeman TP, Su...

Dr Emma Johnson talks to Rob Calder about shared genetic liabilities for cannabis use disorder and schizophrenia and the role of tobacco smoking. Dr Johnson talks about the implications of this research on the evidence for a causal relationship between cannabis and schizophrenia and for other genetic associations relating to substance use and psychiatric disorders. The episode also covers to ever-...

Rob Calder talks to Dr Thomas Mason about his research on pay for performance models of addiction treatment and how they were associated with increased emergency hospital admissions. Mason T, Whittaker W, Jones A, Sutton M. Did paying drugs misuse treatment providers for outcomes lead to unintended consequences for hospital admissions? Difference-in-differences analysis of a pay-for-performance sc...

Rob Calder talks to Dr Máirtín McDermott and Dr Leonie Brose about their research into the effectiveness of e-cigarettes for quitting smoking. McDermott M.S, East K.A, Brose L.S, McNeill A, Hitchman S.C, Partos T.R. The effectiveness of using e‐cigarettes for quitting smoking compared to other cessation methods among adults in the United Kingdom. Addiction 2021. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15...

Rob Calder talks to Dr Maristela Monteiro about deaths in the Americas between 2013 and 2015 that were 100% attributable to alcohol. Chrystoja B.R, Monteiro M.G, Owe G, Pinheiro Gawryszewski V, Rehm J, Shield K. Mortality in the Americas from 2013 to 2015 resulting from diseases, conditions and injuries which are 100% alcohol attributable. Addiction 2021  https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15475 Hos...

Rob Calder speaks to Dr Katie East about her research into social norms in relation to smoking behaviour East K, McNeill A, Thrasher JF, Hitchman SC. Social norms as a predictor of smoking uptake among youth: a systematic review, meta‐analysis and meta‐regression of prospective cohort studies. Addiction 2021 https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15427 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informat...

Rob Calder speaks to Professor Jon Caulkins about his Addiction Opinion & Debate article discussing the difficulties of measuring heroin use with general population surveys Reuter P, Caulkins JP, Midgette G. Heroin Use Cannot Be Measured Adequately with a General Population Survey. Addiction 2021 https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15458 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rob Calder speaks to Professor Petra Meier about her research using computer modelling to estimate how the impact of alcohol pricing policies might differ according to gender. Meier PS, Holmes J, Brennan A, Angus C. Alcohol policy and gender: a modelling study estimating gender-specific effects of alcohol pricing policies. Addiction 2021 https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15464 Hosted on Acast. See acast...

Rob Calder speaks to Professor David Leon about his research into on-line search behaviour as minimum unit pricing of alcohol was introduced in Scotland, and what it told him about how people responded to minimum unit pricing policies. Leon DA, Yom-Tov E, Johnson AM, Petticrew M, Williamson E, Lampos V, Cox I. What on-line searches tell us about public interest and potential impact on behaviour in...

Suzi Gage talks to Professor Richard Miech about his paper exploring the impact of a change in the Monitoring the Future project data collection from pen and paper surveys to digital technology  Miech RA, Couper MP, Heeringa SG, Patrick ME. The impact of survey mode on US national estimates of adolescent drug prevalence: results from a randomized controlled study. Addiction https://doi.org/10...

Suzi Gage talks to Janna Cousijn about her paper on the long term consequences of cannabis use for the brain, written for the series Clinical issues: substance use disorders and the body Kroon E, Kuhns L, Hoch E, Cousijn J. Heavy cannabis use, dependence and the brain: a clinical perspective. Addiction 2020; 115: 559-572 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.14776 You can access all arti...

John Marsden talks to Robert West about his time as Editor-in-Chief of Addiction Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Suzi Gage speaks to Dr. Tom Freeman, director of the Addiction and Mental Health Group at the University of Bath, about his research into how the THC and CBD content of cannabis products has changed over the years. You can read Tom's research here https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.15253 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Suzi Gage talkes to Wayne Hall about his analysis of the film Reefer Madness for the Addiction Classics series. The Addiction Classics series gives authors an opportunity to reflect on what classic works (usually books or research papers but in this case a film) have contributed to the addiction field, and why we need to be aware of them. A Virtual Issue of all articles published so far in the ser...

Suzi talks to Dr Rob Calder about Addiction News and COVID-19 addiction news from across the globe. Addiction News is an area on the journal website where Rob has been compiling news articles and stories related to addiction. Rob is the Deputy Web Editor for the Society for the Study of Addiction, as well as the editor of Addiction News. We talk about the page itself, as well as news stories about...

Suzi Gage talks to Dr Olga Perski about evidence around the relationship between smoking and COVID-19, why there may have been some disagreement in the literature and the media as to the relationship, and her work conducting a living systematic review to explore this further. The living systematic review can be found here, for pre-publication peer review and comment: https://www.qeios.com/read/UJR...

Suzi Gage interviews Shalini Arunogiri about her research on GHB-related harms The research can be found here:  onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.14848 Arunogiri, S., Moayeri, F., Crossin, R., Killian, J. J., Smith, K., Scott, D., and Lubman, D. I. ( 2020) Trends in gamma‐hydroxybutyrate‐related harms based on ambulance attendances from 2012...

Suzi Gage interviews Dr Claire Garnett about her research exploring changes in smoking and quitting behaviour in England The research article can be found here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/add.14882 Garnett, C., Tombor, I., Beard, E., Jackson, S. E., West, R., and Brown, J. ( 2020) Changes in smoker characteristics in England between 200...

Suzi Gage interviews Adam Winstock about the Global Drug Survey Global Drug Survey's website is here: https://www.globaldrugsurvey.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Suzi Gage interviews Amy O'Donnell about her research on the impact of introducing and then withdrawing small financial incentives for alcohol screening and brief advice in primary care in England The research can be read here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/add.14778 O'Donnell, A., Angus, C., Hanratty, B., Hamilton, F. L., Petersen, I., and Kaner, E.&nbs...

Suzi Gage talks to Robert West about recent US reports of deaths linked to e-cigarette use. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.