University of Helsinki
The official start day of the new A-BRAIN project is today, the 1st of March, 2018. The A-BRAIN project (2018-2021) concerns the implementation of the Brain Disease Model of Addiction (BDMA) and its possible implications for policy and practice. Seen in a wider perspective the project asks what it means when epistemic dogma starts situating the problems of addiction in the brain. How can this kind of knowledge be used and implemented in the most fruitful, sound and ethical ways? How can societies utilize the valuable parts of these discoveries and how does it change the ways in which we deal with addiction?
Partner institutions are: Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology (BIPS) in Bremen, CHU Ste-Justine in Montreal, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto, and University of Helsinki (UH). The UH holds the lead and coordination responsibility. The funding body is ERA NET ELSA-NEURON
The A-BRAIN will explore and measure expectations and attitudes regarding the BDMA in popular discourse, among clients and staff in treatment, and, during a prevention programme tuition trait. The results will form a base for a book in which ethical and sound implementation in governance is discussed from different perspectives.
The first work meeting of the project is in Toronto 26-28 of March, 2018.
See project web page