The Faculty of Addictions Psychiatry Annual Conference 2019 will take place 30th April - 1st May.

Highlights of the programme include:

• Professor David Nutt - Legislation and exploring the therapeutic efficacy of illicit drugs
• Dr Rupert McShane - Managing the risks and benefits: Ketamine as licenced treatment for depression
• Professor Sir Ian Gilmore - Faculty Lecture on Getting evidence into policy to reduce alcohol-related harm – mind the gap
• Professor Anne Lingford-Hughes - Translational neurobiology
• Dr Roberta Agabio - Baclofen for the treatment of alcohol use disorder: the Cagliari International Consensus Statement
• Dr Hilary Hamnet - Toxicology
• Women in addiction - Dr Sally Marlow and Dr Sharon Cox
• The care and treatment of colleagues with addictions - Dr Jane Marshall and Dr Eilish Gilvarry
• Innovations in technology and SUDs
• Optimising medicines for patients
• Evolutionary psychiatry and the history of addictions