EUFAS invited symposia
EUFAS organises or co-organises conferences or symposia on addiction research in the member society countries:
2019 - Warsaw (Apr. 6 - 9) - 2019 EPA conference
EUFAS was invited to hold a joint symposium with the EPA within the frame of the 2019 EPA conference in Warsaw, Poland. Title of the symposium was “Cannabis and the Brain: an Update for Psychiatrists”
| Chairs: | Professor Philip Gorwood, France, president of EPA and Professor Geert Dom, Belgium, President of EUFAS |
| Speakers: | Gual A. Neurosciences Institute. Hospital Clínic. IDIBAPS, Addictions Unit. Psychiatry Department, Barcelona, Spain.
Title: Measuring Quantity Matters: the Need for a Standard Joint Unit L. Miquel. Addiction Unit Hospital Clínic of Barcelona. IDIBAPS, Psychiatry. ICN, Barcelona, Spain. Title: Is it Possible to Measure Brain Disfunction in Cannabis Use Disorders? The Visomotor Rotation Task as a Biomarker of Cerebellum Alterations. J. Cousijn. University of Amsterdam, Psychology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Title: Heavy Long-Term Cannabis Use: the Neurocognitive Effects. E. Hoch. Ludwig Maximilian University, Department of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany. Title: The CANDIS Program, a Validated Intervention to Treat Cannabis Use Disorders. |
2018 - Nice (Mar. 3 - 6) - 2018 EPA conference
EUFAS was invited to hold a joint symposium with the EPA within the frame of the 2018 EPA conference in Nice, France.
| Chairs: | Prof. Dr. S. Galderisi, President EPA and Prof. Dr. A. Gual, Past-President EUFAS |
| Speakers: | Sabine Vollstädt-Klein, University of Heidelberg, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany.
Title: Interaction between behavioral inhibition and neural alcohol cue-reactivity in ADHD and alcohol use disorder Albert Batalla, Department of Psychiatry, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Title: Exploring novel targets in the transition from reward to misery in comorbid substance use and mood disorders Colin Drummond, King’s College London, and Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK Title: Addiction treatment – what is needed? |
2017 - Lisbon (Oct. 24 - 26) - LxAddictions 2017
EUFAS was invited to hold a symposium within the frame of the 2nd European Conference on Addictions and Dependencies (Lisbon Addictions 2017), in Lisbon, Portugal.
| Chairs: | Antoni Gual i Solé, Barcelona & Geert Dom, Boechout, Belgium |
| Speakers: | Karl Mann, Germany – An empirical basis to diagnose gambling and gaming disorders in ICD-11.
Conor Farren, Ireland – An overview of European Addiction Clinical guidelines. Jørgen Bramness, Norway – The legal status of medical and recreational use of cannabis throughout Europe. |
2016 - Alicante (Mar. 10 - 12) - Socidrogalcohol
EUFAS was invited to hold a symposium on European developments in addiction science and policy at the 43rd Spanish Socidrogalcohol conference, in Alicante, Spain.
European Federation of Addictions Societies – Symposium
| Chair: | Antoni Gual i Solé, Barcelona |
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Emanuele Scafato, Milan
Good clinical practice and European guidelines for low-risk consumption: the RAHRA Joint Action Antoni Gual i Solé, Barcelola Julio Bobes García, Asturias Jørgen G. Bramness, Oslo & Friedrich Wurst, Hamburg
The registry status and perceived efficacy of drugs used for Alcohol Use Disorders in Europe (download PDF presentation) |
2015 - Dundee (Oct. 5 - 8) - International Society of Addiction Medicine
Harmonising alcohol policies and Treatment Guidelines throughout Europe
| Chair: | Prof. Karl Mann, Mannheim, Germany Dr. Antoni Gual, Barcelona, Spain |
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Jorgen Bramness, Oslo
Norwegian guidelines for the treatment of substance use disorders Henri-Jean Aubin, Paris Karl Mann, Mannheim Colin Drummond, London
Comparing new alcohol guidelines with the international gold standard (download PDF presentation) |
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2014 - Berlin (Sep. 30 - Oct. 2) - Suchtkongress
This symposium provided an overview on the current use of brief interventions in alcohol and tobacco-related disorders in the practices of GPs in Northern Germany; specific approaches to early interventions for patients with tobacco-related disorders; a European survey on brief interventions in the GP setting for patients with alcohol-related disorders including new derived treatment approaches; and implementing brief intervention techniques already during medical studies.
Alcohol and Tobacco-related disorders – new chances for early interventions in general practice
| Chairs: | Prof. Karl Mann, Mannheim Dr. Christof von Ascheraden, St. Blasien |
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Hans-Jürgen Rumpf, Lübeck
Drinking and smoking – status quo of interventions by general practitioners (download PDF presentation) Henri-Jean Aubin, Paris Antoni Gual, Barcelona Jean-Bernard Daeppen, Lausanne
Teaching medical students in early interventions |
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| Discussant: | Christoph von Ascheraden, St. Blasien | |
2013 - Warsaw (Sep. 7 - 8) - ESBRA Conference
A scientific event of EUFAS was held during the European Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ESBRA) conference in Warsaw, Sept. 7th – 8th 2013. EUFAS had the privilege to organise two specific “EUFAS symposia”:
1. Nurturing addiction research and harmonising alcoholism treatment in Europe
| Chairs: | Karl Mann, Mannheim Henri-Jean Aubin, Paris |
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| Speakers: | Jorgen Bramness, Oslo (download PDF presentation) Colin Drummond, London (Download PDF Presentation) Toni Gual, Barcelona (Download PDF Presentation) Jürgen Rehm, Toronto |
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2. Liver Transplantation: a European Perspective
| Chairs: | Friedrich Wurst, Salzburg Marcin Wojnar, Warsaw |
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| Speakers: | Geert Dom, Boechout (PDF Presentation download) Friedrich Wurst, Salzburg Helmut K. Seitz, Heidelberg Julio Bobes, Oviedo Uwe Preuss, Halle |
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The “Albatros Conference” is an annual meeting organisd by the French Fédéracion Addiction which takes place in early June in Paris and assembles between 700 – 800 scientists and practitioners. In 2013 EUFAS was invited to organise a symposium dealing with a comparison of existing treatment guidelines in Europe:
The treatment of alcohol use disorders in Europe. Status of guidelines
| Chairs: | Karl Mann, Mannheim Henri-Jean Aubin, Villejuif |
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| Speakers: | Connor Farren, Dublin (PDF Presentation download) François Paille, Nancy (PDF Presentation download) Jürgen Rehm, Toronto (PDF Presentation download) |
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