Rob Calder

Nov 11, 2024 | addiction-ssa.org | Rob Calder |Natalie Davies |Sarah Judd Welch

Four members of the SSA’s conference committee write about a relatively modern conundrum for event organisers – ‘Should we serve alcohol?’At the SSA’s 2023 Annual Conference, we had a busy evening reception, followed by a sit-down dinner. These are standard fixtures in our Annual Conference programme, but something was different that year. For the first time, we decided to provide alcohol-free beverages for our delegates instead of the usual choice of wine or ‘soft’ drinks.

Nov 7, 2024 | addiction-ssa.org | Rob Calder

Dr Rob Calder shares his advice for giving an effective presentation at a scientific conference. On a long enough timescale, every academic has to deliver a PowerPoint presentation. It’s as inevitable as death, taxes, reviewer two’s attitude, and using too many acronyms to try and dodge a wordcount (UTMATTADAW). Here are some top tips for preparing for your presentation so that it echoes through history and crescendos into a wildly uncontrollable Pavarotti-style hour-long standing ovation. 1.

Jul 22, 2024 | inkl.com | Rob Calder

PA WireBath have also been confirmed as Bristol’s opponents for the first Premiership game to be played at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium on May 10 next year. Northampton won their first Premiership title for 10 years when they beat Bath 25-21 in June. Scrum-half Alex Mitchell’s try seven minutes from time saw Saints home, with Bath playing almost an hour of the final with 14 players after prop Beno Obano was sent off.

Apr 16, 2024 | addiction-ssa.org | Rob Calder

Rob Calder gives a peek into plans for the SSA’s next Annual Conference, and shares the benefits of buying your ticket early. We are now selling early-bird tickets to our Annual Conference, which will be held on 14 and 15 November in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Jul 24, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Keith Humphreys |Rob Calder |John Marsden |Ed Day

A peer reviewer of a submitted paper on methadone maintenance states that she avoids the author’s term ‘opioid agonist therapy’ because new patients associate it with agony and become less willing to try the medication. She recommends ‘opioid substitution therapy’ instead. When the author uses this term in a revised submission, a different reviewer says that this term implicitly supports the canard that ‘methadone just substitutes one addiction for another’.