The post holder will oversee and manage a professional counselling, therapy, education and information service in the area of addiction and substance misuse to young people who have been referred to the ACTS service. 

The post holder will provide and manage substance misuse interventions to young people and their families alongside a multi-disciplinary team within Tusla Therapy.

The University of Bristol have an exciting opportunity for a researcher to work on a new three-year project (EPoCH) within the MRC Integrative Epidemiology unit (MRC IEU) at the University of Bristol, one of the leading centres for epidemiology in the UK.

The EPoCH study explores causality and mechanisms in the complex associations between parental prenatal health behaviours (smoking, drinking alcohol, physical activity, caffeine, high fat, high sugar diet) and childhood health across several domains including adiposity and neurodevelopment.

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate. The successful candidate will be a member of the Hungry Mind Lab (www.hungrymindlab.com).

The project, which is partially funded by the European Foundation for Alcohol Research (ERAB), will focus on studying the gene-environment interplay in the prediction of health outcomes in young adulthood. 

We are seeking a research associate with substantial experience with qualitative research methods to undertake research into the role of alcohol consumption within football cultures.

Duties will include survey and other research design, primary data collection, data analysis and interpretation of findings, the writing of high-quality academic papers, and impact-focused work with external stakeholders.

This role will involve developing a project focusing on the brain mechanisms leading to drug addiction and compulsive behaviours.

More specifically, our lab is interested in understanding how innate behavioural traits related to impulsivity, novelty seeking and risky-decision making contributes to vulnerability to drug abuse. 

The UNODC Regional Office for Southeast Asia and the Pacific’s (ROSEAP) Regional Programme outlines the proposed scope and focus of UNODC's work in the region for the years to come.

Under the direct supervision of the Project Coordinator and the additional supervision of the Operations Manager in Bangkok, the Programme Assistant will be responsible for providing a range of administrative and logistical support to the implementation of UNODC activities in countries of Southeast Asia and the Pacific region.

We are seeking to appoint a Research Assistant to work on a project funded by the Carnegie Trust focusing on the long-term mental health impact of cannabis use.

The role-holder will be the primary researcher on this project and will lead on the acquisition and preparation of data, and data analyses, or well as dissemination, including peer-reviewed publications, reports and presentations.

The post holder will support the delivery of research and policy-oriented outputs for a GCRF/ESRC funded research project. The project looks at the role of illicit/drug economies in transitions from war to peace in Afghanistan, Colombia and Myanmar.

It brings together UK institutions and southern research partners with a view to:

1. developing a robust and new evidence-base
2. strengthening the research capacity of southern partners
3. changing prevailing policies towards drugs, development and peacebuilding. 

A research team of the Psychological Science Research Institute (IPSY, UCLouvain), is seeking a post-doctoral researcher for a project related to the social neuroscience of addictive disorders. 

This project will explore the brain correlates of dehumanization (the feeling of being treated by others as less than a human) in alcohol-related disorders. In this project, the reseacher will explore, using neuroimaging tools (fMRI), dehumanization processes from the victim’s point of view. An outline of the global project can be obtained upon request. The researcher will be supervised by Prof. Pierre Maurage 

Glasgow Caledonian University is looking for a researcher who would like to join their vibrant team. The researcher will work in close collaboration with and under the supervision of Professor Lawrie Elliott and Professor Carol Emslie on the evaluation of the impact of Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) among Homeless People. MUP is a Scottish Government policy that aims to reduce the harm from alcohol.

FCA is seeking a full-time Research Officer to join its policy team in Ottawa.

The Research Officer will be responsible for providing rigorous and innovative issues analysis, researching and developing policy options, drafting a wide range of written correspondence, and providing general research and analysis support towards the achievement of FCA’s policy and advocacy objectives.

FCA is the umbrella group for civil society organizations that were instrumental in the development and ratification of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), the world’s first global public health treaty. 

This is an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Clinical/Counselling Psychologist to join the Greenwich Addiction Psychology Service.

This service delivers evidence-based psychological treatments to service users accessing both a community NHS led complex needs addiction service and a partnership community substance misuse service run by a non-statutory provider.

This position is located in the Department of Health And Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, headquartered in Rockville, Maryland.

The physician will serve as the Center's senior clinical policy and practice advisor, providing advice to Center Directors in the development of clinical policies; assures a cohesive, integrated approach to the accomplishment of Center projects and programs and the execution of inter-Center activities

PhD Project- Developing and evaluating a new pathway to smoking cessation: preventing early lapse using cognitive-behavioural techniques to promote long term abstinence

SSDP is seeking a Global Program Coordinator to join our team in a part-time role supporting our global network through a two-year fellowship.

The successful candidate will coordinate SSDP’s global chapter network and provide coaching, connection, and education to the newest generation of drug policy activists around the world.

They will manage SSDP’s advocacy work at the United Nations, represent SSDP to global allies, and report to SSDP’s staff on the need and activities of our global network.

Ideal candidates will be familiar with SSDP and the drug policy reform movement, but that is not required for a candidate who understands the War on Drugs is a destructive set of policies which must be reformed.

Location:  Washington, DC preferred