New Governance of Addictive Substances and Behaviours / Governance of Addictive Substances and Behaviours Series (PDF)

personality and biological risk factors for the
development and maintenance of drug abuse and the factors that mediate the co-occurrence of addictive behaviours with other mental disorders. Her experimental research focuses on factors that make people more susceptible to seek out behavioral reinforcement from drugs of abuse. Her research findings have led to the
development of new approaches to substance abuse treatment and prevention that target personality risk factors and the underlying motivational determinants of drug use in subtypes of substance misusers.

Antoni Gual is a psychiatrist, with long experience in Addictions research, including both the clinical and the public health fields. He is head of the Addictions Unit at the Clinic Hospital of Barcelona, Spain; and also acts as Alcohol Consultant at the Health Department of Catalonia. He is coordinator of the ALICE RAP project (www.alicerap.eu) and is involved in several European research projects in the areas of Public Health and clinical trials. He is Vice-President of the International
Network on Brief Interventions for Alcohol Problems (INEBRIA), President of the European Federation of Addiction Scientific Societies (EUFAS) and past president of the Spanish Scientific Society for the Study of Alcohol and Alcoholism.

Matilda Hellman is an internationally recognized researcher of understandings of and societal reactions to transgressive and excessive problematic behaviour. Hellman has published extensively and held the lead in a series of international research projects since 2005. Hellman is vice director of the University of Helsinki Centre for Research on Addiction, Control and Governance (CEACG), and holds a university lectureship in sociology at the University of Tampere. Hellman has served as editor
for several books and scientific journals. She is currently the vice president of the Kettil Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcohol. She works as a consultant for the Finnish National Institute for Welfare and Health (THL).

Silvia Matrai is a trained psychologist and cognitive-behavioural therapist (MSc), specialised in psychodiagnostics (MSc) and health care management (MSc) including health economics and public health policies. She has worked in clinical practice specialising in mental health in medical patients, psychosocial support at high-stress workplaces, and therapeutic communities and individual psychotherapy in addictions. She has been involved in clinical trials, public health research in addictions,
and as a researcher and international project manager in large-scale collaborative interdisciplinary research projects.

David Miller is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bath. He is interested in the effects of corporate and state power on policy and society more generally. He conducts research on lobbying, think tanks, policy planning groups, how they are funded and with what effect. His interest in addictions focuses on how corporate interests attempt to manage the harms that their products cause.

David Nutt is a psychiatrist at Imperial College London. He trained at Cambridge, Guys Hospital, Oxford University and NIH. His research focuses on the use of PET and fMRI imaging to understand how drugs work in the brain and the mechanism underpinning psychiatric disorders, particularly addiction and anxiety disorders.

Jürgen Rehm, Ph.D., holds positions at the CAMH (Toronto, Canada) as Director of the Social and Epidemiological Research Department and Head of the PAHO WHO Collaborating Centre. In addition, he has been appointed the Inaugural Chair for Addiction Policy at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health of the University of Toronto, and section head for epidemiology at the Institute for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy of the Technical University Dresden (Germany). Dr. Rehm has published more
than 700 peer-reviewed journal articles in addiction research; he is listed among the ISI/Thompson Reuters globally most highly cited in the fields of social research and epidemiology (top 1% with respect to impact as measured by citations) and has been awarded the Jellinek Award, the most prestigious
award worldwide for alcohol research. He has served as consultant to many countries, and is member of the WHO Expert Advisory Panel of on Drug Dependence and Alcohol Problems.

Jillian Reynolds is a political scientist, holding a masters' degree in social and public policy from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra- The Johns Hopkins University. She has worked as a social and public policy researcher both in the public and private sectors, participating in projects focused on the core welfare policy areas: health and social protection, education, training and employment. She currently works as the Science Officer and researcher of the European-wide interdisciplinary projects
coordinated by the Addictions Unit of Hospital Clínic of Barcelona (such as ALICE RAP, AMPHORA or ODHIN), and has particular interest in the reduction of social and health inequalities through public health initiatives.

Dr. Tamyko Ysa, PhD in Political Science, Executive Master in Public Management, MSc in Public Administration and Public Policies (LSE), BA in Political Science, BA in Law. Associate Professor of the Department of Strategy and General Management and of the Institute for Public Governance and Management, and Vice-Dean for Research at ESADE Business School. She has published in journals such as "Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory", "International Public Management Journal",
"Journal of Business Ethics" or "Public Money & Management". Her previous books and chapters include "Governments and Corporate Social Responsibility: Public Policies beyond Regulation and Voluntary Compliance", "New Steering Concepts in Public Management" and "Governance of Addictions: European Public
Policies".