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Functions as a Drug Abuse Treatment Specialist (DATS) within a Bureau of Prisons (BOP) federal correctional facility.

Provides direct services, individual therapy and/or group counseling, drug education, residential and/or non-residential treatment services which focuses on the rational behavioral therapy model of drug abuse treatment and criminality.

Responsible for the education of prison staff about drug abuse, drug abuse treatment and the local prison program.

Administers eligibility and psycho-social assessments as the basis for individual treatment planning.

Attends meetings with supervisors, other drug treatment DATSs, the unit team, etc., to share information, knowledge, ideas, and recommendations for the drug abuse treatment participant.

Along with all other correctional institution employees, incumbent is charged with responsibility for maintaining security of the institution. The staff correctional responsibilities precede all others required by this position and are performed on a regular and recurring basis.

Do you want to make a real difference as a Psychosocial Recovery Worker?  Why not bring your compassion and skills to help support people in their recovery?

Our Substance Misuse Service at HMP Bullingdon is looking for a dynamic and experienced Recovery Worker.  The team is innovative, forward thinking and committed to a Recovery focused approach that meets people's needs.  You will be part of a supportive team with effective management, supervision and guidance.  

Working with people who have complex offending backgrounds and substance use needs within prison is both challenging and rewarding. This is a fantastic chance to make a positive difference to the lives of people who are often disadvantaged and vulnerable.

This job is open to qualified professionals, or members of the public preferably with experience and understanding of working within Drug and Alcohol Recovery. 

We are willing to support your professional development and provide an opportunity for the right person, who may not have the preferred 12 months experience.

Are you:

• skilled and experienced in providing evidence based psychological and psychosocial interventions geared towards supporting people to make positive changes and work towards recovery?
• highly motivated with the ability to support and inspire?
• able to apply your skills and interventions to the care of people with substance misuse needs.

then we want to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

You will work within a multi-disciplinary team, in a custodial environment delivering a high standard drug and alcohol recovery service in response to the needs of the service users as part of Inclusion and Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation trust.

You will provide a range of psycho-social interventions motivating and supporting service users to achieve recovery and positive outcomes within a recovery-orientated substance misuse treatment service

You will work in collaboration with clinical prescribing services to ensure the needs of each service user is met and that integrated working is a key element to Inclusion's prison services.

You will provide a drug and alcohol recovery service (incorporating assessment, recovery planning, casework coordination and psycho-social interventions) to problem drug and alcohol users located within the prison establishment

You will contribute and work within the prison and wider drug strategy

Several internship positions are open in the Civil Society Unit (CSU), Office of the Director (OD), Division for Policy Analysis and Public Affairs (DPA), United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Vienna, Austria. The first internship will start in July 2025. All internships are for a period of four (4) to six (6) months subject to the needs of the office and the availability of the interns. The internship is UNPAID and full time. Interns work five days per week (40 hours) under the supervision of a staff member in the office to which they are assigned. The UNODC Civil Society Unit (CSU) manages the Civil Society Global Programme (GLOU68). Within the framework of GLOU68, CSU facilitates the dialogue between civil society, Member States, and the private sector in the fight against corruption, on drug issues and other crimes. Through the GLOU68 programme, CSU works to facilitate meaningful participation of relevant stakeholders in UNODC activities.

For more information on UNODC, please visit the following website: www.unodc.org. For more information about the CSU, please visit www.unodc.org/unodc/en/ngos/cst.html

The intern shall undertake the following duties which may include, but are not limited to:

• Contribute to the implementation of Programme GLOU68 “Engagement with Non-Governmental Stakeholders on Anti-Corruption, Drugs and Crime Prevention”, by participating in the various aspects of the projects’ cycles, including drafting concept notes, funding proposals, implementation and reporting;
• Attend and take notes at events/meetings/conferences;
• Assist in the preparation of the CSU activities and events;
• Conduct research;
• Perform other tasks as necessary.

Título del proyecto: Papel dependiente del sexo de los receptores de dopamina D3 en la vulnerabilidad individual para desarrollar un comportamiento compulsivo de búsqueda y consumo de drogas: investigaciones preclínicas utilizando un nuevo antagonista altamente selectivo

Supervisor: Profesor David Belin

Departamento/Instituto: Fisiología, Desarrollo y Neurociencia (PDN)

Socio industrial: Shionogi

Detalles del proyecto:

La epidemia de opioides que se ha cobrado la vida de más de medio millón de personas en Estados Unidos en la última década está llegando al Reino Unido. Todavía no existen tratamientos eficaces para la adicción a los opiáceos y otras drogas como la cocaína y el alcohol, lo que limita nuestra capacidad para ayudar a quienes padecen este trastorno psiquiátrico debilitante, en parte debido a nuestra falta de comprensión de los mecanismos celulares que median la transición de la búsqueda y el consumo de drogas controladas a las compulsivas. El sello distintivo del trastorno por consumo de sustancias. Entre los mecanismos candidatos, los que se encuentran en la fase posterior del receptor de dopamina D3, cuya expresión se ve profundamente exacerbada por la exposición a drogas adictivas, se han destacado durante mucho tiempo. Sin embargo, el papel de este receptor en el comportamiento compulsivo de búsqueda de drogas nunca se ha determinado debido a la falta de procedimientos apropiados en especies no humanas. Aprovechando un nuevo modelo animal de hábitos compulsivos de búsqueda de heroína desarrollado por el laboratorio de Belin, se ha lanzado recientemente una nueva asociación multimillonaria con Shionogi para probar, entre otras cosas, el potencial terapéutico y la firma neuronal asociada de un nuevo receptor de dopamina D3 altamente selectivo en los hábitos de búsqueda de drogas, la búsqueda compulsiva de drogas y la escalada de la autoadministración de drogas en ratas macho y hembra. Este programa de investigación en la interfaz de la neurociencia del comportamiento, la neurofarmacología y la biología molecular proporcionará una oportunidad única para que un estudiante de doctorado adquiera un conocimiento profundo de las bases psicológicas y neuronales de los trastornos por uso de sustancias, al tiempo que adquiere una amplia gama de habilidades experimentales en un entorno muy favorable.

El socio industrial es uno de los pocos laboratorios de las grandes farmacéuticas que quedan invirtiendo en investigación fundamental en neurociencia y persiguiendo el desarrollo de tratamientos novedosos para los trastornos del SNC. Durante mucho tiempo ha estado interesado en expandir su estrategia de descubrimiento de drogas a la adicción a las drogas. Shionogi se ha convertido en uno de los principales socios industriales del paisaje de Cambridge y es muy activo en su colaboración con la Comunidad de Neurociencia de Cambridge. En los últimos cinco años, Shionogi ha apoyado una nueva línea de investigación sobre el papel de los receptores periféricos de opiáceos en los efectos conductuales de los opiáceos en el contexto de una beca BBSRC-ICase con el Belin que ha demostrado ser muy exitosa, siendo así un testimonio del compromiso de Shionogi para apoyar la investigación en el campo de los trastornos por uso de sustancias.

Se espera que los solicitantes tengan una amplia experiencia con procedimientos crónicos de autoadministración intravenosa en ratas.

Más información sobre el programa de doctorado DTP de Cambridge Bioscience en este enlace: https://bbsrcdtp.lifesci.cam.ac.uk/bbsrc-dtp-programme/icase-studentships. Los detalles completos de los requisitos de ingreso a la Universidad y las becas se especifican en el siguiente enlace: https://www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Heersink School of Medicine invites applications for an open-rank faculty position in the Department of Neurobiology. We are seeking candidates with experience in the area of substance use disorders and addictions, motivated behavior, or the consequences of drug experience on brain function. The Department of Neurobiology (link) is an established and well-funded department with over a quarter century of fundamental neuroscience discoveries. Faculty are housed in custom-designed laboratories and offices in the Shelby Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Building and nearby Civitan International Research Center. The department has strengths in the molecular mechanisms of neuronal function, synaptic communication and plasticity, and animal models of neuropsychiatric disorders, with technical approaches spanning molecular, genetic, cellular, systems, and behavioral levels of analysis. The Department of Neurobiology provides competitive start-up packages, modern laboratory space, excellent core facilities, a collaborative research environment, and world-class training programs. UAB is strongly committed to neuroscience research, and the department is expanding rapidly under new leadership.

Driven by an intensely collaborative and entrepreneurial character, UAB is one of the leading economic engines in Alabama, with a nearly $4 billion budget and a statewide economic impact exceeding $12.1 billion annually. UAB is Alabama’s largest employer with nearly 28,000 employees, and ranks in the top 10 among public universities for NIH funding, with total research expenditures exceeding $715 million in 2022. With nearly 1,700 faculty, 1,200 medical and graduate students, and 12,000 undergraduate students, UAB pursues the frontiers of education, research, and health care and strives to be one of the most dynamic and productive universities of the 21st century. Birmingham is a cosmopolitan city at the heart of a metropolitan area with a population of 1.1 million people. It is a rich cultural center and progressive community with low cost of living, moderate weather, and ample outdoor activities.

Successful applicants will join one of the strongest neuroscience environments in the country. The UAB Comprehensive Neuroscience Center (CNC) has more than 450 neuroscience research faculty, clinicians, staff, students & trainees representing 32 UAB departments across 9 UAB schools. The CNC serves as a focal point for basic and applied neuroscience research at UAB. In addition, UAB is home to several other neuroscience-related centers, including the Center for Addiction and Pain Prevention and Intervention (CAPPI), Civitan International Research Center (CIRC), Center for Neurodegeneration and Experimental Therapeutics (CNET), an NIH-funded Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, and Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine Institute. UAB is one of 42 institutions with an NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award, which supports translational research and promotes junior investigators.

Candidates must have a Ph.D. and/or M.D in a related field and a strong record of research accomplishments. Faculty members are expected to establish or continue active independent research programs and to participate in education of professional, graduate, and undergraduate students. To ensure priority consideration, applications should be submitted by September 15, 2025, but applications will be considered until positions are filled. Applicants should submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, list of references, and brief summary of current and proposed research activities as a single PDF file.

The Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Epidemiology, at the University of Utah is seeking a faculty member to carry out addiction-related research and to promote and facilitate collaborative studies of addiction health services or addiction intervention-related research. Candidates with experience in single or multisite, health system-focused, prospective research studies are encouraged to apply. A multitude of opportunities for collaborative research exist in areas such as clinical and population health decision support systems, behavioral health interventions, and epidemiology at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center and Salt Lake City Veterans Health Care System. This position will specifically work to continue to build the behavioral health and addiction sciences research portfolio and acumen of the University of Utah School of Medicine.

As a key member of the Division of Epidemiology and collaborator with the Salt Lake City Veterans Health Care System, the successful candidate will be a highly motivated investigator whose major focus is research and productivity.

Minimum Qualifications: To be considered applicants must possess a doctorate degree in a related discipline, currently have secured independent funding, demonstrate authorship, have 3 years of experience or training in a related discipline, and possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

HJF is seeking a Scientist I develop and conduct research projects. The Scientist will work with multiple phenotypic, genomic, and neuroimaging large datasets including the dbGaP, Million Veterans Program (MVP), All of Us, UK Biobank, Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development (ABCD) study, and others. The Scientist will have the opportunity to lead impactful manuscripts and travel to national and international conferences to present work. There will also be opportunities for attendance of statistical genomics training workshops. Our lab prioritizes professional growth.

This position will be in support of the Clinical Neuroscience of Psychopathology (CNP) lab in the Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology at Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, MD. The fellow will work on studies that aim to elucidate the genetic and neurobiological basis of alcohol use, addiction, impulsivity, and other psychopathology. This research includes collaborations with principal investigators from the University of Pennsylvania, the National Institutes on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and Yale University. The ideal candidate will have strong computational and analytic skills and a passion for psychiatric genetics and addictions research. This position is hybrid or fully in-person.

The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine (HJF) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing military medicine. We serve military, medical, academic and government clients by administering, managing and supporting preeminent scientific programs that benefit members of the armed forces and civilians alike. Since its founding in 1983, HJF has served as a vital link between the military medical community and its federal and private partners. HJF's support and administrative capabilities allow military medical researchers and clinicians to maintain their scientific focus and accomplish their research goals. 

Responsibilities:
 

• Leads manuscripts in the area of addiction and psychiatric genetics.
• Plans, executes, and oversees research projects.
• Assists in designing, developing, executing, and implementing scientific research and/or development; includes working on pheWAS, GWAS, whole genome association studies, protein-protein interaction and other genomic and bioinformatic analyses.
• Monitors scientific literature. Prepares written reports and manuscripts for submission to scientific journals.
• Prepares and develops methods, results, and syntax.
• Prepares data for presentations at scientific meetings and for publication in journals. 
• Coordinates and prepares new grant and funding applications.
• Collaborates with other technical and professional staff. Trains and supervises technical staff.
• Oversee the preparation of technical reports, summaries, study protocols, and IRB submissions.
• May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned or directed by the supervisor. This may include attendance of and participation in required training for role.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Assigned Lead: May recommend the following: employee hiring, disciplinary action, and starting salaries; provide input on employee performance evaluations.

We are seeking to appoint a Researcher in Public Health to lead a collaborative research programme in Derby and the wider Derbyshire area on the socioeconomic determinants of health inequalities and their impact on non-communicable diseases. Our strategic aim is to conduct excellent, multidisciplinary research at the intersection of two growing areas of public health priority.

The programme involves multisectoral collaboration with regional, national and international organisations. The example of the local stakeholders includes the University of Derby's School of Allied Health and Social Care, the Derbyshire NHS Integrated Care System, Derby City Local Authority, Derbyshire County Council, and Derbyshire Voluntary, Community, and Social Enterprise.

Our target populations include underserved populations living in poverty and minoritised groups facing issues related to substance misuse, mental health disorders, and homelessness. The collaboration aims to how socioeconomic factors such as access to health and social services, income levels, social deprivation, affordable housing, education, and environmental conditions influence non-communicable diseases prioritised in UK public health. Additionally, we will also examine behavioural factors such as gambling, alcohol, and drug addiction, as well as adverse childhood experiences. 

The successful candidate will have the freedom to develop the project with support from Professor Mzwandile Mabhala and other leading experts in public health. This role involves working within a collaborative team that includes both established and early-career researchers, as well as public health practitioners and policy leaders, on a regional, national, and international scale.

Day to day elements of the role include:

• Engage in networking activities to make internal and external contacts develop knowledge, and form relationships for future research collaboration.  
• Identifying opportunities for "bonding networks" to enhance collaborative efforts in advancing the research and development agenda related to health inequalities and vulnerable groups.
• Developing capacity within the wider public health workforce, particularly in non-traditional public health organisations and roles not specifically identified as public health.
• Leading efforts to identify external funding opportunities and develop grant proposals involves conducting literature reviews, preparing research plans, and contributing to budget justifications.
• Preparing research manuscripts for publication in high-impact scientific journals and presenting findings at conferences and seminars.
• Contributing to departmental teaching activities, including supervising PhD and MSc students.

The anticipated interview date is Thursday 1st May 2025.

Applications are invited for a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on a project investigating the neurocognitive mechanisms underpinning alcohol consumption in adolescence, funded by the Academy of Medical Sciences. This post is based at the School of Psychology and Aston Institute for Health & Neurodevelopment (AIHN) at Aston University, Birmingham. AIHN is a world-leading CQC-registered brain-imaging facility with an excellent interdisciplinary research environment fostering ‘bench-to-bedside’ research into health and neurodevelopment.

This is a unique opportunity to join a world-leading team in addiction and neuroimaging research led by Dr Charlotte Pennington. The project will comprise a large-scale neuroimaging experiment to determine whether reward sensitivity and inhibitory control predict alcohol-related attentional bias and consumption in adolescence.

The successful candidate will provide essential research assistance for all aspects of the project. Support is particularly required for the programming of experimental tasks and analysis pipelines for functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data and collecting such data from a large sample of adolescents at the AIHN. Therefore, the candidate must have a track record of excellent programming and quantitative data analysis skills. Some experience with the collection and analysis of fMRI data is desirable, but full training will be provided. The candidate must be able to travel to Aston University, Birmingham as data collection will happen on site.

The candidate must have a PhD in Psychology, Neuroscience, or a cognate discipline. They should have advanced skills in programming and data analysis and experience of writing up research for high-quality publications and conference presentations. Additional essential criteria and responsibilities can be found in the job description and person specification.

This role is subject to satisfactory Enhanced DBS check. 

If you have any queries regarding this post, please contact the Principal Investigator, Dr Charlotte Pennington (c.pennington@aston.ac.uk). 

Aston University is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.  It promotes equality and diversity in all aspects of its work. We strive to have robust inclusivity strategies in place, including race and sexual orientation, to encourage colleagues to have the confidence and freedom to be themselves in the workplace. For more information, visit: https://www2.aston.ac.uk/about/inclusive-aston 

If you require the job details document or an application form in an alternative format please contact the recruitment team at recruitment@aston.ac.uk