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Peter Adams was trained initially as a clinical psychologist and has practiced in
hospital, community and private practice settings for over 13 years. Through his
practice he developed specialist expertise in addictive behaviour, violence and
public health interventions for dangerous consumptions. His current research interests
include: family impacts of addictions, brief interventions, recovery processes and
public health approaches to gambling.
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Rachael Butler is a researcher/research project manager in the School of Pharmacy.
Her research interests include substance use and young people and families, legal
party pills and she has extensive expertise in qualitative research methods.
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Chris Bullen is a public health medicine specialist, a senior lecturer in public
health and Acting Director of the Clinical Trials Research Unit, School of Population
Health. His current research interests lie in tobacco control and smoking cessation,
particularly in the trialling of innovative interventions to increase quit attempts
and improve quitting success. Chris was a co-author of the latest New Zealand Smoking
Cessation Guidelines and the most recent Cochrane review of nicotine replacement
therapy.
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Felicity Goodyear-Smith is both an academic and practising general practitioner
with a particular interest in the detection and management of risky lifestyle behaviours,
including use of nicotine, alcohol, recreational drugs and gambling, and mental
health issues in primary health care. Dr Felicity Goodyear-Smith is an Associate
Professor in the Department of General Practice and Primary Care.
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Maree Jensen is a practising pharmacist, with an interest in the field of methadone,
needle exchange and harm reduction strategies in disenfranchised populations such
as the drug injecting and sex worker communities. Maree Jensen is a Senior Tutor
at the School of Pharmacy, University of Auckland.
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Ross McCormick is New Zealand representative on the Chapter of Addiction Medicine
governance committee. His research and teaching is primarily in the field of primary
care provider behaviour in relation to the detection and management of inappropriate
drug and alcohol use. Dr. Ross McCormick is the Director the Goodfellow Unit.
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Bruce Russell is an academic pharmacist whose research interests revolve around
both the acute and long-term pharmacological effects of recreational drugs on the
CNS and their metabolism, in particular the amphetamines and hallucinogens. He is
currently using 128-lead EEG and developing fMRI protocols to investigate the acute
regional effects of BZP/TFMPP with the help of several post-graduate students, one
of whom is also performing pharmacokinetic studies.
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David Newcombe is a Lecturer in Alcohol and Drug Studies at the Department of Social
and Community Health. His research interests including screening for problematic
substance use and determining the efficacy of brief interventions ; the clinical
pharmacology of opioid pharmacotherapies; and exploring the harmful consequences
of psychostimulant use.
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Robin Shepherd has research and clinical experience in substance abuse and problem
gambling in both the United States and the United Kingdom. Robin has been living
in New Zealand for the past three years focusing on problem gambling research, but
she has become recently interested in drink driving interventions with the research
treatment group.
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Janie Sheridan is Associate Professor at the School of Pharmacy. Her research interests
include methamphetamine use and issues relating to injury, 'legal party pills' in
New Zealand, primary care services for drug and alcohol users and methadone prescribing
patterns. She has also been involved in development of a screening and outcomes
tool for young people in relation to substance use.
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Trecia Wouldes is a developmental psychologist. Her research interests include the
effect of maternal drug use during pregnancy on the developing child. Two studies
current studies are underway, one examining the neurological effects of methadone
use during pregnancy on the infant and young child, and a further one examining
the biological and psychosocial effects of methamphetamine use on the developing
child. Dr Trecia Wouldes is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Psychological
Medicine.
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Amanda Wheeler is the director of the Clinical Research Resource Centre, at Waitemata
DHB, as well as a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Auckland and Specialist
Mental Health Pharmacist. Her primary areas of research have been in psychoses,
mood disorders and addictions and she is particularly interested in the impact of
pharmacological interventions on health outcomes. One of her primary goals is to
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