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NEWS & EVENTS
Cornell Chronicle:
The Cornell Chronicle published a very nice piece on the Oral History Project in their February 29th edition.
Stacia Murphy & Jim Cusack Interviews Online:
We Just finished work on new interviews with Stacia Murphy and Jim Cusack in the Oral History Project section of the site.
Upcoming Conferences:
In the spring of 2009, the Smithers Institute will be holding a national conference to discuss where research on substance abuse in the workplace currently stands. Specifically, this is a follow-up to a conference we held in 2003. We will examine such issues as:
- Employee/Member Assistance Programs
- Drug testing
- New modalities of workplace intervention
- Labor-management collaboration for the prevention, intervention and treatment of substance abuse problems
- Workplace risk factors
- Retirement and substance abuse
- The role of insurance and implications for healthcare reform for the prevention and treatment of workplace substance abuse
The conference will produce a policy paper which will give academic guidance to future research and policy making. The two-day conference will be comprised of working sessions to gather information which will be the backbone of a policy paper. While difficult, an effort will be made to achieve some consensus around key issues of importance to the workplace. A writing committee will compile the paper and submit it to all participants for approval.
Past Conferences:
Conference On Alcohol and Other Drugs at Work
February 16-17, 2004, New York, NY
The conference was a great success! We thank all of the participants for attending and contributing. Read more about this conference.
There was an article published in the Cornell Chronical on the ILO-Smithers Conference on Alcohol and Other Drugs at Work. Read article.
For more conference information click here.
Christopher D. Smithers Foundation 50th Anniversary Celebration Symposium
In honor of the foundation’s commitment to the prevention and treatment of alcohol abuse and alcoholism, the Smithers Institute for Alcohol-Related Workplace Studies brought together a panel of 24 experts to discuss what progress has been made in studying the causes of alcohol problems and their prevention and treatment over the last 50 years. Read more...
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