Conference: National Drug Research Institute: Complexity: Researching alcohol and other drugs - August 2013

National Drug Research Institute, Burnet Institute, Monash University
Date: 21 Aug 2013
Venue: Aarhus University, Denmark

This conference will bring together leading international researchers in
drug use and addiction studies from a range of research disciplines.

Title: Complexity: Researching alcohol and other drugs in a multiple world
Institution: National Drug Research Institute, Burnet Institute, Monash
University

Date: 21 Aug 2013 to 23 Aug 2013
Venue: Aarhus University, Denmark

Summary:
This conference will bring together leading international researchers in
drug use and addiction studies from a range of research disciplines.

Description:
This conference offers a forum in which the issues and dilemmas of
complexity in alcohol and other drug research can be explored. It welcomes
research based on quantitative and qualitative methods, and encourages
innovative use of methods, concepts and theoretical approaches. Possible
themes include: Changing meanings, definitions and measures of addiction;
The relationships between alcohol and other drug use and health and social
phenomena; Emerging drugs and conceptions of their effects; Public opinion
on illicit drug use, drinking or smoking; Drug policy and the forces and
assumptions that shape it; Drugs and addiction in film, news and other
media; Models and practices of treatment and recovery; Pedagogies of
addiction and drugs in universities and schools; Drugs in urban cultures
and spaces; Subjects and practices of harm reduction; Global politics of
drug production and consumption; Complexity and method in the addiction
and drug use field; Validity and reliability in quantitative drug
research; Quantitative and qualitative theories of complexity and their
uses in drug research.

Web
Link: http://ndri.curtin.edu.au/local/docs/pdf/conferences/cdp_2013_conference_flyer.pdf
Name: Nicola Thomson
Phone: 0466 207 868 E-mail: cdp@cutin.edu.au
Address: NDRI, 54-62 Gertrude St, Fitzroy, 3065, VIC