Report by Maurice Mittlemark on the Policy Science Dialogue Blogging Session, at the 2nd General Partners' Meeting (Newcastle - May 2012) as part of WP21 on evaluation of the project.

Milestone 11 (Area 2, WP5) - SUBAQUA: Substance Use and Behavioral Addictions – Questionnaire from Alice Rap

By Gerhard Gmel and Simon Marmet

The final milestone of the ALICE-RAP – WP5: Counting Addiction aims at coming up with a comparative questionnaire for substance-related and non-substance-related addictions for Europe.There are large gaps in current estimates for substance dependence in Europe and estimates differ in various methodological aspects and the instruments used, making them barely comparable.

In the present report three multidisciplinary studies are reported about effects of alcohol and cannabis marketing exposure on brain activity and drug-related cognitive processing in users of alcohol and cannabis and in controls. As was described in the Description of Work of the ALICE RAP project, the work consists of two parts. In Part I, a neuroimaging study about the effects of alcohol and cannabis marketing on brain activity is reported. Part II consists of two studies. In study 1 of part II, the immediate effect of alcohol advertisement exposure in light and heavy (but not clinically dependent) drinkers of alcohol is reported. In study 2 of Part II, immediate and long-term effects of alcohol advertisement in alcohol dependent patients are reported.

Deliverable D1.1, Work Package 1.1

By Virginia Berridge, Johan Edman, Alex Mold and Suzanne Taylor

A review of the development of concepts and ideas about addiction in European countries since the nineteenth century and the role of international organisations in the process. For further reading, we recommend Concepts of addictive substances and behaviours across time and place.

Report describing the deliverable 16.2 'Adolescents as customers' online database, available at http://alice-rap.preventionstandards.eu/