Newswise — Reporters who have an interest in drug addiction and alcoholism and related social issues are invited to join a small group of fellow journalists at the next workshop in the Addiction Studies Program for Journalists of Wake Forest University School of Medicine, to be held Nov. 27-28 in Hilton Head, S.C.
A full scholarship for almost all expenses " conference fees, hotel and transportation " is available to qualified working journalists.
More than 220 journalists from across the nation have attended one of ASPJ's two-day workshops, designed to give reporters a strong grasp of the neurobiology of drug addiction, including the latest scientific information, all presented in an interesting lay-language format.
If you have not already attended an ASPJ workshop, this is an opportunity to greatly enhance your reporting on any beat that might include drug abuse, especially medicine/health, crime and the courts, social issues, education and sports. You'll leave the workshop with story ideas and new contacts for future reporting.
In addition to Wake Forest, which has one of the longest-running NIH-funded addiction research programs in the nation, workshop faculty come from Duke University and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). The program is co-sponsored by National Families in Action, a drug-prevention organization in Atlanta, and is affiliated with the Medical Journalism program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The November workshop will be held in conjunction with the 2006 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Substance Abuse Policy Research Program Conference. Following the workshop, participating journalists are invited to attend the conference, and scholarship support is available for both.
The ASPJ workshop format and faculty will be very similar to the June 2006 workshop held in Phoenix. Follow this link to read about it and see what the participating journalists had to say: http://www.addictionstudies.org/journalists/past-workshop0606.html
For additional details and registration information, please email Diane Joyner at [email protected], or call her at (336) 713-7161.
Or visit the web site http://www.addictionstudies.org. If you are not able to attend, please share this invitation with any other working journalist who might benefit from the workshop.
Registration deadline is Wednesday Oct. 25. Enrollment is limited, so please respond soon!
We hope to see you in Hilton Head!
RSS