This position will report to the Chief Learning Officer (CLO) to ensure successful strategic development, creation, implementation of a number of key ASAM educational offerings and resources.

The Associate Director/Director will work closely with course planning committees, faculty, other medical/medical education organizations, and other members of the ASAM staff team in support of ASAM’s strategic priorities.

The Associate Director/Director will be responsible for developing strategies for the successful continuation of competency-based educational activities with a focus on the ASAM Fundamentals of Addiction Medicine (including all Fundamentals curriculum activities such as live workshops, online workshops, ASAM ECHO series, and online modules), the ASAM Review Course in Addiction Medicine, the ASAM Motivational Interviewing Workshop and special grant funded projects such as the National Association for Drug Court Professionals (NADCP) trainings.

The Associate Director/Director will also work closely with the CLO and other members of the professional development team to conduct needs assessments and evaluations and incorporate feedback from participants in education activities. The Associate Director/Director will also continue to evolve learner engagement and outreach to new audiences. Candidate must quickly develop a broad understanding of the ASAM education programs and be able to set priorities in work assignments.

As our new Behaviour Change Programme Manager, your primary task will be to help hundreds of thousands of people to take control of their drinking, notably through our flagship Dry January campaign and the Try Dry app. Working closely with colleagues in the communications team, you will be designing, developing, implementing and marketing Dry January and our other cutting-edge behaviour change programmes. You will be supported to set - and meet - ambitious plans and targets. You will also work with multiple internal and external stakeholders to drive up our impact and, where applicable, to identify opportunities to bring in income to support the further expansion of this work.

To be successful in this role, you will have demonstrable experience of running successful projects and programmes that deliver positive social and/or behavioural change. You will be a strategic and creative thinker, who can see the potential of Dry January and our other programmes and will strive to reach it. You will be an outstanding organiser, able to manage a complex and diverse workload. And you will be adept at producing engaging communications for public audiences, managing relationships with multiple stakeholders, and analysing data to create meaningful reports.

Closing date: midnight on Wednesday 20 May 2020

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board are currently looking for a Consultant to join an innovative team at the forefront of addiction services in Wales and working in close partnership with commissioners and third sector providers.

GSSMS provides comprehensive treatment to individuals with a variety of addiction issues as well as complex mental and/or physical health issues. You will become part of a team that is committed to service development and will have the opportunity to contribute to a number of innovative projects in Wales thus advancing the quality of addiction services.

AIR is seeking to hire a senior leader, knowledgeable about substance use disorders, and an expert in evidence-based policies and practices that federal, state and local agencies can implement (across systems of health care, public health, criminal justice, and human services) to address substance use disorders.

This senior person will lead AIR’s Center for Addiction Research and Effective Solutions through research, policy, and technical assistance. They will work with AIR staff in building new work that fulfills AIR’s mission to conduct and apply the best behavioral and social science research to improve lives, especially for the disadvantaged.

This senior leader will develop and execute a strategy to grow a body of work, building on AIR’s existing foundation in the following areas: provider interventions including safe prescribing practices, evidence based treatment (to include medications for addiction treatment), recovery supports, and promotion of patient and family engagement in the treatment of substance use disorders; cross-sector strategy and engagement; communication campaigns; development, implementation and evaluation of  interventions across a number of settings.

The University of Colorado Boulder seek a highly motivated individual to support all aspects of our research. Current projects in the lab focus on identifying the influences of cell-type-specific pathways from the brain's reward center, the ventral tegmental area (VTA), on reward and aversion processing in addiction and depression.

Job Description

Responsible for participant screening and recruitment for investigator-initiated studies on tobacco use treatment, multi-center research studies, and patient-oriented clinical and translational research projects within a specific Division focused on tobacco dependence, under general supervision. Works directly with faculty, study physicians, research coordinators, project managers, and other research staff. Performs chart review, telephone screening, in-person screening visits, consenting of participants, processing and shipping of labs, entering data into databases, and the provision of behavioral counseling interventions focused on smoking cessation.

This research assistant will primarily recruit and conduct interviews and data collection for a randomized controlled trial looking at the effectiveness of a brief counseling intervention at decreasing pain and substance use problems in Veterans.

Essential Duties

1. Researches and collects data through site or home visit intakes; library research; structured interviews; or through other means for designated research assignments.
2. Records and compiles information related to research data. Codes data accordingly to research specifications. Uses a computer terminal to input and retrieve data and to generate reports.
3. Processes and summarizes data using scientific or statistical techniques. Assists in data interpretation and analyses. Reports on status of research activities.
4. Recruits study participants and ensures that subject recruitment and follow-up are completed per protocol procedures.
5. Orders and maintains inventory of supplies. May assist in designing, developing, and modifying research experiments, procedures, or survey instruments. May assist research and support staff.
6. Performs additional functions incidental to research activities.

This position is located in the UNODC Programme Office in Tunisia (POTUN) with duty station Tunis, operating under the Regional Office for the Middle East and North Africa (ROMENA) of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) based in Cairo, Egypt.

The incumbent will work under the overall guidance of the UNODC Regional Representative for the Middle East and North Africa, based in Cairo, and the direct supervision of the Research Officer (Criminal Intelligence Analysis) in Tunis. Technical advice and support will be sought from the relevant units in UNODC headquarters in Vienna.

The top ten health conditions that contribute to global disease burden in high-income countries include depression and anxiety (common mental health disorders), alcohol and smoking linked conditions (alcohol use disorders, lung cancers and heart disease) and diabetes. Notably, these are all non-communicable conditions which have early life risk factors that include mental health, adiposity and substance use (nicotine, alcohol).

This 3-year PhD project offers an exciting opportunity to undertake research into health across the life course and across generations.

Project Title: Leveraging Process Models of Self-Regulation to Understand Self-Quitting in Scotland

Description: Despite ambitious targets to quarter smoking rates by 2034, the prevalence of smoking in Scotland has plateaued. Scientific understanding and related policy recommendations are further complicated by findings that most individuals who quit smoking long-term do so unassisted. Little is currently known about these self-quitters, often because they achieve cessation outside of any formal program.

The project will apply a self-regulation framework to

1. provide evidence-based insights into unassisted cessation, and,
2. test if the psychological mechanisms underlying unassisted cessation predict and encourage cessation in new-quitters.

The project will take a mixed-method approach to investigate health behaviours in community members related to smoking cessation.

The Research Coordinator will provide oversight and administrative support for research projects in the Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Unit within the Section of General Internal Medicine.

The CARE Unit is an academic unit addressing clinical, education, and research aspects of alcohol and other drug use and disorders. Primary responsibilities of this position include assisting Principal Investigators/CARE Unit faculty, with guidance from a senior research manager, in conducting and monitoring research studies.

Change Grow Live is looking for an experienced Clinical Psychologist who can ensure the delivery of a high quality, accessible and inclusive psychological service for people with complex needs.

The post holder will promote psychologically informed and trauma-informed practises within the team and wider service through consultation, case management, training, reflective practice, and research. The service will offer a range of psychological and psychosocial interventions including, but not limited to Motivational Interviewing, CBT, EMDR, and relapse prevention.

Change Grow Live is looking to recruit a Specialty doctor for their substance misuse treatment service in Newham, London.

The post holders will work under the Consultant Psychiatrist for the service and have a responsibility to work with a multi-disciplinary team to provide holistic care for the client of both services.

The post-holders will contribute to the service to ensure that service users consistently receive high-quality services that adhere to the best practice guidelines and achieve high professional standards. They will be responsible for contributing to the overall performance of the service to ensure that contractual output targets are achieved. They will be required to record and input client data and information in order that the service operates within contractual, administrative and financial requirements.

This post represents an excellent opportunity for someone with strategic vision, strong and influential leadership abilities, and sound operational management abilities to ensure the delivery of HSCP objectives in conjunction with the wider HSCP senior management team.

This role has responsibility for both the strategic development and delivery of services in respect of adults with mental illness, addiction and homelessness provided by both the NHSGGC and Inverclyde Council.

This is a Secondment Opportunity for 6 to 12 months.

Title: Understanding the Determinants of Resilience in Biological, Adoptive and Foster Families Living With Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

Project Details: The effects of Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder on children and young people’s development and wellbeing can create significant challenges for families. While previous studies mostly focus on the deficits and difficulties experienced by families, there is emerging evidence that some families living with FASD are able to overcome these difficulties to enable children to thrive. However, little is known about the factors that facilitate such resilience. This doctoral study will examine the individual, family and contextual factors that promote positive family functioning in biological, adoptive, kinship and fostering families living with FASD. 

The purpose of this position is to coordinate and conduct research activities associated with the Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse (CRISM), which include a number of studies at the intersection of substance use, healthcare services and policies, and community engagement.

The Research Coordinator will conduct qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis, assist in the management of projects including managing and tracking expenses, coordinate research dissemination activities, and conduct literature reviews under the supervision of the Program Manager and the Principal Investigator 

The Rutgers Brain Health Institute and the Department of Psychiatry are recruiting an outstanding physician-scientist as a tenure-track Professor of Psychiatry and to serve as the Director of the Treatment Research Unit (TRU), a key component of the newly created Rutgers University Addiction Research Center (RUARC). 

The ideal candidate will be a physician-scientist, adept at securing extramural funding to support translational research in substance use disorders. They will work with the Director of RUARC and lead a team to translate research findings to the clinic to improve substance use disorder policies and programs. 

The Department of Psychiatry at Dartmouth-Hitchcock and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth is seeking an academic Addiction Psychiatrist to join its faculty at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH.

Addiction clinical service, teaching, and research is a strategic priority in our department and this faculty member will join an active high-quality service.

The role includes providing clinical care, teaching and training of medical students, residents, and addiction fellows and participating in plans and approaches to addressing addiction in the population across the service system of Dartmouth-Hitchcock.  

Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey is seeking a motivated Research Associate staff member for the Center for Tobacco Studies (CTS) within the School of Public Health.

The Research Associate will be responsible for the conduct of highly specialized and technical research in the area of tobacco and for assisting in the management of tobacco research studies, including design, analysis, and reporting.

How can public support be fostered for controversial, but evidence-based, drug policies that will improve outcomes for stigmatised and marginalised groups?

Project Description

The UK is currently facing some of the highest levels of deaths related to controlled drug use on record. People who use drugs (PWUD) also face other health and social harms related to their drug use, and because of the ways in which society chooses to respond to their drug use. We know that there are interventions and policies that might reduce some of these harms, but despite some promising evidence, these responses may not be implemented, or available to enough people to have an impact. There are many reasons for this, and not all are easy to resolve.
Drug policy and other public health scientists have argued that whilst important, public contribution to policy development and preferences can sometime be tokenistic, and valued only when it is in accordance with the broader political aims of government. Some important public health focused drug policies supported by health professionals and academics can also seem controversial and counter-intuitive to the public, and governments have also used this apparent lack of public support to justify inaction. However, policies that do have public interest and support, and lead to advocacy campaigns are sometimes quickly acted on. A good contrast here is the decision by the UK government to change the law to allow prescription of cannabis-based medicinal products in 2018, but ongoing resistance to change the law to permit the establishment of medically supervised drug consumption facilities in Scotland. 
Some of the reasons why the public may not support particular actions include a lack of familiarity with the aims and evidence underpinning a particular approach, or public attitudes towards PWUD. Public stigma is an important source of social exclusion and determines which policies and practices receive public support. Stigma can also affect the likelihood of PWUD to seek support, and undermine the benefits of treatment, and so this is important to address. We also know that some health and social care professionals can have stigmatising attitudes towards PWUD, and this can affect the level and quality of care provided, and may indirectly affect public opinion. Despite recognition of the importance of stigma on drug-related health and social outcomes, little research has examined techniques that might lead to more inclusive and less stigmatising attitudes towards PWUD. Similarly, although there has been good work in other health fields (e.g. alcohol, tobacco, HIV), there is a lack of work that has examined how public support for controversial, but evidence-based responses to illicit drug use can be fostered. 
We would like to work with a student who is committed to developing a high-quality programme of PhD research that responds to some of these important challenges. The student should generate the research ideas, but based on some of the work we have already done, areas of investigation might include: 

1. How framing of a) drug issues in public discourse (including the media), b) PWUD, and c) responses to drug use can affect public attitudes towards PWUD and public support for controversial policies. 
2. How the different ways in which evidence for controversial drug policies is presented can affect public support 
3. The role of mass media in shaping attitudes towards PWUD. In particular in the development of understanding media responses to drug-related ‘problems’, or in the development of evidence-based resources and training for journalists and other media producers to support their reporting.

This is an exciting and important area of work, with direct relevance to practice and policy. This is likely to be multidisciplinary research, and also presents opportunities to collaborate with professionals and partners outside of University settings. It is likely to appeal to students from a broad range of disciplines, including, but not limited to public health, psychology, sociology, criminology, health sciences, journalism, and marketing/communications. It is important that the prospective student shares our values of respect towards PWUD, and shares our commitment to undertaking research that seeks to support marginalised and stigmatised groups and to reduce health and social inequalities.