EUFAS-EAR Award

Since 2016, EUFAS also collaborates with the journal European Addiction Research to present the EUFAS-EAR Award to an outstanding scientist in addiction research, inviting the winner to deliver a plenary presentation on their work:.

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• EUFAS-EAR Award 2016: Karl Mann receives the first EUFAS-EAR Award and gives a plenary lecture: Alcoholism and Treatment – moving towards the promised land at the Sociodrogalcohol conference in Alicante, Spain. Click links to the online full text or PDF versions of the contribution to European Addiction Research (EAR).

• EUFAS-EAR Award 2017: Jürgen Rehm receives the second EUFAS-EAR Award and gives a plenary lecture: Decreasing life expectancy despite gains in cancer and cardio-vascular disease mortality? The role of addictions in public health in high-income countries at the Lisbon Addictions 2017 conference in Lisbon, Portugal. Click links to the online full text or PDF versions of the contribution to European Addiction Research (EAR).

• EUFAS-EAR Award 2018: Wim van den Brink receives the third EUFAS-EAR Award and gives a plenary lecture: Precision Medicine in Addiction: A Bright Future? at the European Psychiatric Association meeting in Nice, France. Click links to the online full text or PDF versions of the contribution to European Addiction Research (EAR).

• EUFAS-EAR Award 2019: Professor Sir John Strang receives the fourth EUFAS-EAR Award and gives a plenary lecture: “Preventing deaths from heroin overdose: better science, fuller understanding, greater impact” at the Lisbon addiction 2019 conference.
  Click here for the online full text and here for the PDF version of his paper “Take-home naloxone and the prevention of deaths from heroin overdose: pursuing strong science, fuller understanding, greater impact.“, published in European Addiction Research (EAR).
  Find out why he was chosen here.

• EUFAS-EAR Award 2020: Professor Marta Torrens receives the fifth EUFAS-EAR Award and gives a plenary lecture at the 3rd International congress of the SOCIDROGALCOHOL. Her contribution to European Addiction Research (EAR) is yet to be published.
  Find out why she was chosen here.
  

• EUFAS-EAR Award 2021: Professor Anne Lingford-Hughes receives the sixth EUFAS-EAR Award and gives a plenary lecture at the SSA 2021 conference. Her contribution to European Addiction Research (EAR) is yet to be published.