Psychopharmacology and Substance Abuse Newsletter

In this issue

• From the president’s desk
  The challenge is to continue to strive toward making Division 28 a home where its members feel comfortable and welcome, but yet provide the opportunities for discovery and career development
  By Rick Bevins, PhD
• Upcoming important deadlines
  Scholarships, grants and awards available for division members
  
• Apply now for the APA 121st Annual Convention
  Deadlines have now passed for all proposals
  By Kathryn Saulsgiver
• Collaborative Perspectives on Addiction Conference
  The theme for the 2013 conference is "Biobehavioral Research and Implications for Practice"
  By Anthony Liguori
• 2012 Division 28 award winners
  Winners received the Outstanding Dissertation award, Young Psychopharmacologist Award and MED Associates Brady-Schuster Award
  
• New division fellows
  Welcome to the division's newly elected fellows
  By Stephen J. Heishman
• Student column
  Learn about the Basic Psychological Science Research Grant and a new APAGS journal, Translational Issues in Psychological Science
  By Alexa Lopez
• Advocacy updates
  Tobacco control and cessation; proposed National Institute of Substance Use and Addiction; HIV/AIDS and substance abuse congressional briefing; Disaster Distress Helpline; and sequestration may cause loss of research funding
  By V. Vatsalya and Marion Coe, BA
• Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology table of contents
  Article topics include smoking behavior, opioid dependence, comorbid boderline personality disorder and alcohol use disorders, cannabis use and cognitive performance, and antidepressants and memory
  
• Fellowship opportunities
  Postdocs in drug abuse, psychopharmacology and neurocognitive effects of alcohol and substance abuse
  
• Training opportunities
  Training in brain imaging, addiction treatment, health psychology