Substance Use & Psychiatric Epidemiology Research

Research group from the National Addiction Centre at the KCL Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience

[RAND Europe @RANDEurope]

What affects people's willingness to donate DNA and health data?

RAND Europe expert Kate Morley worked with researchers across the world to help deliver the 'Your DNA, Your Say' survey to find out: https://t.co/ki2wYPtk3m @sangerinstitute

[Substance Use & Psychiatric Epidemiology Research @AddictionEpiKCL]

From our own Dr Kalk! BBC News - Smartphone 'addiction': Young people 'panicky' when denied mobiles https://t.co/lU7ydAMdNy

[Substance Use & Psychiatric Epidemiology Research @AddictionEpiKCL]

Interesting @VICE article - and link to new survey - about medicinal cannabis use @GlobalDrugSurvy. Have a read and take the survey!

https://t.co/OBKlNenPYi

[Substance Use & Psychiatric Epidemiology Research @AddictionEpiKCL]

Staggering is a fair adjective...

https://t.co/pS3EmCZeGu

[Substance Use & Psychiatric Epidemiology Research @AddictionEpiKCL]

Do you know your POP tarts from your POT tarts?
Read about these and other developments in the European cannabis market in the newly published @EMCDDA paper with SUPER's Tom Freeman (@Bath_AIM) Michael Lynskey, Sam Craft (and @AmirEnglund) https://t.co/VSJIfTSxrQ

[Honghan Wu @hhwu]

Want to reuse existing #NLP models to mine your #ehr #healthcare data but not sure which ones to use or how they would work? our preprint https://t.co/S73sbNpTEW aims to help you choose the best models and how to efficiently improve them for your data/task @phidatalab @HDR_UK

[Substance Use & Psychiatric Epidemiology Research @AddictionEpiKCL]

Not a surprise.

[Substance Use & Psychiatric Epidemiology Research @AddictionEpiKCL]

https://t.co/peO8pdGida

[Substance Use & Psychiatric Epidemiology Research @AddictionEpiKCL]

https://t.co/FeANHuUbcr

[The Health Foundation @HealthFdn]

Are avoidable hospital admissions a useful measure of the quality of care?

In a @BMJ_Qual_Saf editorial, @KarenHodgePodge, @SarahDeeny and @ASteventonTHF examine the uses and limitations of data on ambulatory care sensitive admissions.

https://t.co/NSXR7SHBro
#dataanalytics

[The Health Foundation @HealthFdn]

Want to communicate your health research in a better way in 2019?

Our toolkit for #researchers in health and health care is the tool you need.

Read online or download it for later: https://t.co/9SJTNcnAcO

#WhyWeDoResearch | #IAmResearch

[HeLEX Oxford @HeLEXOxford]

Everything you need to know about digital #consent for research and clinical care @nilshoppe @MeganPrictor @michaelethox @Genomethics @HeidiBBentzen @kazutokato6 @murtagh_mj https://t.co/9jzIFW7uyO

[Substance Use & Psychiatric Epidemiology Research @AddictionEpiKCL]

Ethnic variations in compulsory detention under the Mental Health Act: a systematic review and meta-analysis of international data https://t.co/GxDAHHPu1Y

[Substance Use & Psychiatric Epidemiology Research @AddictionEpiKCL]

How Britain's post-industrial cities got hooked on booze - the impact of the “three Vs: violence, vandalism and vomit” https://t.co/k1oiMVy19x #alcohol

[Anna Middleton @Genomethics]

I am so proud of our Society and Ethics Group! There are now 7 of us. Two affiliate staff and a new post doc to join us soon. Tackling societal issues raised by genomics ⁦@sangerinstitute⁩ ⁦@WGCethics⁩ ⁦@ConnectingSci⁩ ⁦@drdanoconnor⁩ ⁦@GA4GH⁩

[NIHR Biomedical Research Centre (BRC): Maudsley @NIHRMaudsleyBRC]

#CRIS blog: Using data on hospital episodes to look at the physical health of people with personality disorders https://t.co/WlXpIxpFmA

[Substance Use & Psychiatric Epidemiology Research @AddictionEpiKCL]

Prisons 'playing catch-up to psychoactive drug use' says minister https://t.co/6yLE9j1LWf

[Substance Use & Psychiatric Epidemiology Research @AddictionEpiKCL]

Tragically unsurprising: UK hospital admissions for addiction soar as treatment budgets fall
https://t.co/7JqM1LhfnW

[The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health @LancetChildAdol]

Inspiring opening from @drgigiosler: "“When I think about championing diversity, I don’t just think about more women. I look around the room and think “who is not here?”. Intentional representation is key in academia. #LancetWomen

[Substance Use & Psychiatric Epidemiology Research @AddictionEpiKCL]

Beer before wine not fine, scientists find after vomit-filled tests https://t.co/C1cT9idLJM