Internationals Guests:
Didier Playoust -
Vice-President of the French Society of Alchology; former coordinator of the French Traffic Accident Prevention Program Pas-de-Callais North Region; Coordinator of the Alcohol Clinic, Hospital de Tourcoing, Lille (France)
Karl Fagerstrom* -
Creator of the Fagerstrom Scale for Nicotine Dependence; pioneer in the creation and use of nicotine replacement therapy for tobacco treatment, author of innumerous articles in this field; director of Smokers Information Centre and Fagerstrom Consulting (Sweden)
Martin Raw Visiting Professor of the Federal University of São Paulo , Brazil ; Honorary Professor in Public Health Sciences from London University (UK)
Richard Rosenthal -
Distinguished member of the American Psychiatric Association; co-author of the DSM-IV criteria for Pathological Gambling; author of many papers and book chapters on the phenomenology of Pathological Gambling, its course, complications and treatment; co-director of the Pathological Gambling Program of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA, USA)
Richard Saitz** -
Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology; director of the Addiction Clinics and Education Unit of the Medical Center of Boston University; elected president of the Association for Medical Education and Research on Substance Abuse (USA)
Sheila Blume -
Professor of Psychiatry of New York State University, Stony Brook; Former director of the Addiction and Pathological Gambling Unit of the South Oaks Hospital, Amityville, New York (USA); pioneer on gender sensitive treatment proposals for addictions.
Support:
* Pfizer Pharmaceutical
**National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
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