Welcome to your on demand offer holder hub - where you can access the information and insight you need, whenever you need it. From your course overview to taster lectures to videos from current students - it's all here!

Don’t forget you can contact current students on unibuddy at any time with questions you might have, book a 1:1 online appointment with Programme Lead, Professor Leonie Brose.  You can also join our Unibuddy Community to chat to other offer holders for your course.

Professor Juliet Foster, Dean of Education, shares a warm welcome to the 2025 offer holders of the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience.

Watch our online event for IOPPN postgraduate offer holders, recorded on 3 July 2025.

• Welcome from Dean of Education, Juliet Foster
• Hear from Student Experience Officer, Georgia May
• Hear from Careers Consultant, Rachel Demetriou

All information in this video was correct on 3 July 2025. Captions are auto-generated.

• Explore our content below to find out more about our Addictions course.
• Chat 1-2-1 with one of our current students on unibuddy.
• Attend an offer holder event on 3 July (online).
• Got a question? Chat to course leader Professor Leonie Brose on unibuddy or arrange a 15-minute online meeting here
• Take an online tour of our Denmark Hill Campus - home of the Department of Addictions.
• Join our postgraduate offer holders Unibuddy Community to chat with other offer holders for your course.
• Take a look at our optional reading and listening list compiled by Professor Leonie Brose.
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Don't miss the chance to book a one-to-one, 15-minute online session with Professor Leonie Brose, the programme lead for our MSc in Addictions and the MSc International Addiction Studies (IPAS). These exclusive sessions are the perfect opportunity to learn more about the course, ask any questions you have, and gain expert advice tailored to your academic or career goals.

Sessions run every Friday between 1 and 1:45 until 25 July.

Places are limited so don’t miss out – click here to register and select your session

My interest in patient well being and systematic healthcare has motivated me to pursue a career in psychological and pharmacological support. At King’s College London, I had the opportunity to explore these interests further through my Master degree in Addictions at the institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience. 

I would be happy to answer all your questions about the school, my studies, student life, or anything else.

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Join our WeChat group for postgraduate offer holders of courses at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience. Here you can out more about events and information for offer holders from China, and ask your questions to current postgraduate students.

Click here to join the group or scan the QR above.

Please note all reading and listening suggestions below are completely optional. 

General information on drugs and addiction

• Society for the Study of Addiction knowledge hub
• Babor, T. F., Caulkins, J., Fischer, B., Foxcroft, D., Humphreys, K., Medina-Mora, M. E., . . . Strang, J. (2018). Drug Policy and the Public Good (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 
• West, R., & Brown, J. (2013). Theory of Addiction (2nd ed.). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. 
• Addiction Audio: Interviews with authors of recent papers, including many of our colleagues and former students here in the department  
• Interactive presentation of data on the global burden of disease  
• Blog post on the study: Experiences of perinatal care for women who use and are in treatment for drug use

Information on reading scientific papers and methods

• Greenhalgh, T. (2019). How to read a paper: The Basics of Evidence-based Medicine and Healthcare. (6 ed.). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. An earlier version of many of the chapters is also available on the BMJ website: bmj.com/about-bmj/resources-readers/publications/how-read-paper) 
• Field, A. (2022). An Adventure in Statistics: The Reality Enigma (2nd ed.). London: Sage.

Blogs and videos about 'Advancing theory and treatment approaches for males in substance misuse treatment who perpetrate intimate partner violence’

• Outline of ADVANCE blog – ADVANCE programme – substance use and IPV
• ADVANCE video

Newspaper article from The Guardian

• Virtual reality to be used in UK trial to help people beat cocaine addiction | Drugs | The Guardian

Audio Addiction podcast features many of our module leads and teachers on the course. Here are some episodes that may be of particular interest  - linked to papers and specific studies:

https://shows.acast.com/addiction-audio/episodes/vaping-and-smoking-cessation-with-mairtin-mcdermott-and-leon

Rob Calder talks to Dr Máirtín McDermott and Dr Leonie Brose (MSc Addictions Programme and Module Lead) about their research into the effectiveness of e-cigarettes for quitting smoking.

https://shows.acast.com/addiction-audio/episodes/mental-imagery-and-cocaine-craving-with-john-marsden

Rob Calder talks to Professor John Marsden (MSc Addictions Module Lead) about cocaine cravings. Professor Marsden discusses the lack of pharmacological treatments for cocaine, and about his recent study using mental imagery to address cocaine cravings. He talks about the benefits of positive imagery compared with negative imagery. He then discusses how useful mixed-methods research can be and the importance of writing up data from unfinished trials.

https://shows.acast.com/addiction-audio/episodes/brief-interventions-emergency-departments-and-alcohol-with-p

In this episode of the Addiction Audio podcast, Dr Paolo Deluca (MSc Addictions Module Lead) talks about his recent research on using brief interventions in emergency departments. The research involved a three-armed randomised controlled trial on brief interventions for young people, and found no significant differences in alcohol-related outcomes between young people who had been given a brief intervention and those who had not. In the podcast, Paolo reflects on some of the potential reasons for this, considering previous evidence in support of brief interventions.

https://shows.acast.com/addiction-audio/episodes/the-acute-effects-of-cannabis-with-will-lawn

Rob talks to Dr Will Lawn about his research into the acute effects of cannabis on young people and adults. Will talks about setting up a study looking at young people and adults’ experiences of using cannabis with different levels of cannabidiol. He talks about the challenges of blinding participants to different types of cannabis; about how to manage the placebo effect when participants can become quickly aware of whether they have or have not had cannabis and the challenges of running a trial involving a controlled drug.

https://shows.acast.com/addiction-audio/episodes/long-acting-buprenorphine-with-jo-neale

Professor Joanne Neale talks to Addiction Audio about her latest research into how people feel during the first 72 hours of having long-acting buprenorphine (Buvidal). Jo talks about the recent history of this medication and how it predated the COVID-19 pandemic and was then brought to attention because it meant that people did not have to attend a pharmacy on a daily basis. Jo also talks about how this can be positive for some people but isn't appropriate for everyone.

https://shows.acast.com/addiction-audio/episodes/xylazine-heroinand-drug-markets-with-caroline-copeland

In this episode Ben Scher talks to Dr Caroline Copeland about her work analysing drug death data to identify drug use trends, harms and to inform policy. Caroline talks about how xylazine first entered the US drug market but has been increasingly identified in Europe and the UK, even being identified in vapes sold as containing tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). Caroline covers the harms from xylazine and the implications for public health practitioners before relating the UK issues to wider global drug markets.

And slightly different format https://www.addiction-ssa.org/community/women-in-addiction/ann-mcneill

Professor Ann McNeill (MSC Addictions Module Lead) is Professor of Tobacco Addiction and lead of the Nicotine Research Group in the Addictions Department at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. She was interviewed by Dr Debbie Robson in 2018 for the Women in Addiction project. Ann talks about choosing to take a break from the UK education system early in her career, bringing lived experience to her academic positions, and finding role models in feminist literature.

The aim of the Bursary scheme is to facilitate training in the addictions field for individuals experiencing difficulty in funding a course of study.

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