Service-user involvement ▪ Young people and families ▪ The work of the Alcohol Education and Research Council

* Society for the Study of Addiction Annual Symposium, 2009 ** Notification to current and recent members * The SSA’s annual conference will be held on Thursday 12 and Friday 13 November this year, at the Park Inn, York. Application forms available here.Apply by 18 September for reduced-rate attendance. Theme: Treatment policy Sub-themes: Service-user involvement ▪ Young people and families ▪ The work of the Alcohol Education and Research Council Chris Godfrey will give the Society lecture ▪ Addiction treatment: Do economists contribute to the policy debate? Sessions topicsThe future of user involvement in drug treatment decision-making ▪ Jo NealeThe evidence base for treatment policy, also looking at how England achieved universal treatment coverage for nicotine addicts ▪ Ann McNeillThe evidence base for the treatment of addiction ▪ Connie WeisnerThe future of talking treatments ▪ Gerhard BühringerThe future of pharmacological treatment ▪ Anne Lingford-HughesThe future of treatment in the developing world ▪ Isidore ObotEuropean alcohol treatment policy ▪ Antoni Gual i SoléThe future of drug treatment policy at the international level ▪ Keith HumphreysThe elephant outside the room: Thoughts on treatment policy from a population perspective ▪ John CunninghamTreatment policy for young people: Contrasting the UK and the US ▪ John KellyOption 2 and its evaluation: Incorporating the delivery of treatment through families into treatment policy ▪ Rhoda Emlyn-JonesHow good are psychosocial interventions in the UK? ▪ Gillian ToberTreatment policy in England – a NICE perspective ▪ Eileen Kaner Alcohol Education & Research Council Symposium: What does the AERC do?Chair – Ray HodgsonThis parallel session will address AERC work including: Young men experiencing a facial injury; Work on prospective memory; The Strengthening Families programme; The effects of acute alcohol consumption on processing cues of emotional expressionWith: Alyson Smith ▪ Val Curran ▪ David Foxcroft ▪ Angela Attwood  * Submissions for delegates’ posters and oral presentations are now welcome. Any addictions subject will be considered. See ‘Instructions for authors’. There will be a £500 prize for the best poster (decided by independent judges at the conference). *