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Alcohol: risks, clinical considerations, treatments and outcomes

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This track is co-produced by the European Federation of Addiction Societies (EUFAS).

This track focuses on various aspects related to alcohol use, alcohol use disorder (AUD), and related topics with particular focus on:

Causality of Alcohol Use Disorders (AUD): (neuro)biology, genetics, microbiota, and alcohol-related liver disease.
Innovation in treating AUD: digital interventions, and opportunities to support recovery through the use of artificial intelligence and other new technologies.
Co-morbidity: risks, outcome predictors and clinical considerations.
AUD typologies and trans-diagnostic thinking: including the opportunities provided by network analysis and machine learning.
AUD across the life course. Developmental perspectives for responding to needs at different stages of life: foetal alcohol syndrome, prevention in adolescent, ageing populations

Sessions

Wednesday, 23 October

10:50

Treatment of alcohol use disorder

Short communication session

13:20

Alcohol use in the young

Oral presentation session

Alcohol use disorder: clinical biology and epidemiology

Short communication session

15:00

Alcohol use from brief intervention to harm reduction

Oral presentation session

16:50

The EUFAS-EAR European Addiction Research Award

Thursday, 24 October

10:50

Predicting the future: biomarkers for progression of alcohol use disorder

Oral presentation session

15:00

Alcohol epidemiology: social inequalities

Oral presentation session

16:50

Alcohol and gender issues

Oral presentation session

Alcohol use among the elderly

Oral presentation session

Friday, 25 October

10:50

Alcohol: interventions and up-to-date technologies

Oral presentation session

13:20

Alcohol and other drug policies in the work setting – a perspective on European developments

Oral presentation session

Research into practice: The implementation and evaluation of alcohol assertive outreach treatment in England

Presentations

Wednesday, 23 October

10:50

Short communication

Efficacy of Cognitive vs. Mindfulness Targeted Hypnotic Suggestion on Working Memory and Relapse in Alcohol Treatment

Short communication

Controlled alcohol drinking rooms. Madrid's experience.

Sonsoles Gutiérrez-Cáceres

Short communication

Implicit Social Attunement & Alcohol Use: The Effect of Peer Feedback on Willingness to Drink in Social Settings

Short communication

TeleHealth Resources for IndiVidualizEd Goals (THRIVE) in Alcohol Recovery Study: Initial Findings

Katie Witkiewitz

Short communication

A randomised controlled trial assessing the effectiveness of a smartphone app intervention for alcohol-dependent adults

Short communication

Autobiographical reasoning: a process involved in the clinical evolution of individuals with alcohol use disorder?

Clara De Groote

Short communication

PREDICTORS OF TREATMENT COMPLETION AND DISCONTINUATION IN GROUP TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH AUD: RESULTS FROM A NORWEGIAN MULTI-SITE PREDICTOR STUDY

Kristoffer Høiland

Short communication

Successful alcohol and cannabis counselling in Germany: What is the difference between medical and legal referrals?

Moritz Rosenkranz

13:20

Short communication

A qualitative exploration of the Alcohol Harm Paradox among different socioeconomic groups in Australia

Short communication

A spatial examination of liquor licence density and the level of disadvantage of schools in Ireland

Short communication

What’s the risk, does underaged drinking influence employment outcomes for young adults?

Nicholas Taylor

Short communication

Alcohol and youth neurodevelopment: a systematic review of longitudinal brain imaging studies

Dhatsayini Rattambige

Oral presentation

Structure and predictive validity of alcohol use disorder recovery domains in young adulthood

George Richardson

Short communication

Medications for alcohol use disorder in alcohol-related cirrhosis

Hugo López Pelayo

Oral presentation

An 11-year analysis of alcohol-related emergency department presentations by young people, from an EU hospital setting

Short communication

B-Phosphatidylethanol sampling in primary health care to detect harmful alcohol use – perceptions among physicians

Åsa Steensland

Oral presentation

Heavy episodic drinking among French adolescents between 2005 and 2022: a gender perspective.

Short communication

Phosphatidylethanol as an outcome measure in treatment aimed at controlled drinking

Oral presentation

Digital components in interventions aiming to reduce or prevent alcohol use among young people: A scoping review.

Stefanie Maria Helmer

Short communication

Ethyl glucuronide in maternal hair to objectively assess alcohol consumption in the three trimesters of pregnancy

Katarzyna Okulicz-Kozaryn

15:00

Oral presentation

Alcohol Mis(Use) among Migrants, Asylum-seekers and Refugees: state-of-the-art

Maria Pires Cameira

Oral presentation

Harm reduction interventions and Indigenous peoples: The first Managed Alcohol Program in Montreal

Rossio Motta-Ochoa

Oral presentation

Predictors of outcome in individuals with alcohol use disorder and a treatment goal of controlled drinking

Anders Hammarberg

Oral presentation

Crafting the international standard: Establishing and implementing core outcome measures for alcohol brief interventions

Gillian W. Shorter

16:50

Keynote presentation

The increase of 100% alcohol-attributable mortality in the EU during COVID-19 – implications for the health care system

Keynote presentation

The EAR-EUFAS European Addiction Research Award 2024 - presentation of the award and the awardee

Karen Ersche, Colin Drummond

Keynote presentation

Andreas Heinz’ award lecture: Learning mechanisms in addictive disorders

Thursday, 24 October

10:50

Oral presentation

Neurobiological Markers of Alcohol Use Disorder: Implications for Prevention and Treatment

Oral presentation

Identifying harmful alcohol use with phosphatidylethanol 16:0/18:1 in patients with suspected severe injury

Benedicte Joergenrud

Oral presentation

VALIDATION OF PLASMA BIOMARKERS FOR PREDICTING AND PREVENTING ALCOHOL-ASSOCIATED RISK OF DEMENTIA: PRELIMINARY DATA

Fernando Rodriguez de Fonseca

Oral presentation

Drink and be merry? The impact of alcohol and affective social cues on emotional contagion

15:00

Oral presentation

Socioeconomic differences in the real-world effectiveness of pharmacotherapy of alcohol-related health problems

Oral presentation

Estimating the global burden of alcohol's harm to others

Anne-Marie Laslett

Oral presentation

Economic wealth, patterns of drinking, and alcohol-attributable disease burden

16:50

Oral presentation

Age-related loss of autonomy, residential instability and alcohol use: suggestions to improve intervention and services

Oral presentation

Exploring drinking motives and alcohol consumption in a UK LGBTQ+ population

Oral presentation

Patient characteristics and treatment outcome predictors in older adults in routine care alcohol use disorder treatment

Oral presentation

Illustrating the Recovery Journey: Exploring Women's Alcohol Treatment Experiences Through Participant Drawings

Oral presentation

Investigating sex and gender differences in alcohol cue-reactivity: implications for treatment strategies?

Anne Marije Kaag

Oral presentation

Working elements in interventions to reduce problematic alcohol use according to older adults: a realist evaluation

Fieke van den Bulck

Oral presentation

A systematic review examining how gender and sex are measured and reported in research on alcohol treatment

Friday, 25 October

10:50

Oral presentation

Effectiveness of Machine Learning Based Adjustments to an eHealth Intervention Targeting at Risk Alcohol Use

Matthijs Blankers

Oral presentation

Identification and treatment of AUD with the 15-method – Evaluating effectiveness of the method in Danish primary care

Anette Søgaard Nielsen

Oral presentation

Smartphone-Delivered Cognitive Bias Modification for Reducing Harmful Drinking amongst middle – older age adults

Victoria Manning

13:20

Oral presentation

Work related cocaine use: prevalence and interventions

Marie-Claire Lambrechts

Oral presentation

The Workplace as a “Co-Therapist”

Camilla Lynne Bakkeng

Oral presentation

Individual agreements for recovery from substance misuse. Employees’ response and experience of regulatory aspects.

Oral presentation

A healthy work environment for Eastern European migrant workers in The Netherlands

Desirée Spronk

Oral presentation

Pathways into individual substance misuse recovery agreement in the workplace

Janne Scheffels

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