Newswise — A few scholarships remain for the November workshop of the Addiction Studies Program for Journalists of Wake Forest University School of Medicine at the Grand Hyatt Washington in Washington D.C. Thursday and Friday, November 10-11, 2011. Full scholarships for almost all expenses – transportation, hotel, and conference fees – are available to qualified working journalists.
If you have not already signed up or attended one of these workshops, please consider this opportunity to get the latest, most reliable scientific information about substance abuse, addiction and treatment – presented in an interesting, lay-language format.
The workshop is part of Wake Forest’s acclaimed Addiction Studies Program for Journalists and is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).
Workshop faculty members also come from other major research institutions such as Duke University, University of Pennsylvania, University of California Berkeley, Harvard University, and others. 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 and the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland.
More than 450 journalists from across the nation have attended one of the program’s two-day workshops, designed to give reporters and editors a strong grasp of the neurobiology of drug addiction and related prevention and treatment issues. This is an opportunity to greatly enhance your reporting on any beat that might include drug abuse. You'll leave the workshop with great story ideas and new contacts for future reporting.
Follow this link to see what participating journalists had to say about the most recent workshop: http://addictionstudies.org/journalists/past-workshop1106.html
The November workshop will be held in conjunction with the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, which will bring some 30,000 neuroscientists to Washington. Following the workshop, participating journalists are invited to attend opening day of the neuroscience meeting, and scholarship support is available for that as well.
Attendees will also have the opportunity to meet with and interview Dr. Nora Volkow, the dynamic director of NIDA.
For additional details and registration information, please reply to Sue Rusche ([email protected]) or call her at (404) 248-9676.
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.
Enrollment is limited, and the final deadline is fast approaching. So please respond NOW!
We hope to see you in Washington!
David Friedman, Ph.D.Director, Addiction Studies Program for JournalistsProfessor, Wake Forest University of MedicineWinston-Salem, North Carolina
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