The Addiction and the Family International Network (AFINet) is a platform which:
We have just discovered that the AFINet Membership application form has not been working for the last 6... Read more
AFINet is a free-to-join Network, providing a platform which: brings together researchers, policy-ma... Read more
Notice of Annual General Meeting (AGM) Preceded by a Webinar about Family Members Affected by ... Read more
Family Drug Support in New Zealand are using the 5-Step Method remotely, holding videoconferencing se... Read more
A new report (“Medications for Opioid Use Disorder”) has been put onto the website under Country Reports.... Read more
The next AFINet Newsletter is due to come out at the end of June, and there is a call to all members for ... Read more
Welcome to the 10th issue of the AFINet newsletter! As you may recall, we have adjusted the format of the... Read more
AFINet Trustee Richard Velleman has added a list of AFINet-related scientific papers published from 2017 ... Read more
Conference Programme and Pack AFINET CONFERENCE PROGRAMME AFINET ABSTRACTS AFINET... Read more
AFINet member Urvita Bhatia presents Poster and gives Twitter interview at the Wellcome Trust / Departmen... Read more
AFINet members Anil Rane, Urvita Bhatia, Jim Orford, Richard Velleman and Abhijit Nadkarni recently publi... Read more
Matua Raki (the national addiction workforce development centre in New Zealand) has been working closely ... Read more
As part of the ‘Checkmate’ programme (reported elsewhere in this newsletter) , Gill and Richard Velleman ... Read more
Great to see an article in support of our 5-Step intervention for family members in the Feb '17 issue of ... Read more
Save the Date! On 1st & 2nd November 2016, Richard and Gill Velleman will be running a 2-day trainin... Read more
I have just read two articles which come from countries which, as far as I know, have not produced resea... Read more
Another paper from this recently completed 3 year study in the UK, which focuses on a subset of intervi... Read more
A paper outlining the main findings from a recently completed UK study in to bereavement through subs... Read more
AFINet 1st AGM Birmingham Wednesday July 15th 2015 Winterbourne Gardens, Edgbaston Park Road, Birmin... Read more
In June 2015 AFINet members, Lorna Templeton and Richard Velleman, attended the final event of a major ... Read more
Following the delivery by Richard Velleman and Gracemary Leung of a 2-day 5-Step Method training in Hon... Read more
The following papers may be of interest to AFINet members. They report findings from a two year longitu... Read more
Brazilian AFINet colleagues, Helen Sakiyama et al. have had a paper describing their research in Sao Paol... Read more
Iran’s first research about family members affected by addiction has been published! In fact we think thi... Read more
“How do I tell my children about what my mum's like?” Conflict and dilemma in experiences of adult fami... Read more
This multi-site randomised controlled trial aims to test the feasibility of implementing and evaluating ... Read more
The short questionnaire for family members (affected by addiction) – the SQFM(AA) – is starting to prove... Read more
This is the first AFINet Newsletter so a big welcome to all AFINet members and to others of you who hav... Read more
A team at the Centre for Child and Youth Research at Brunel University, London, led by Professor Judith H... Read more
Although this interesting qualitative study by Maria Fotopoulou, of the School of Social and Political Sc... Read more
Is a child, harmed by the mother’s drinking during pregnancy, entitled to compensation, and what are the ... Read more
The first phase of this UK 3 year study (funded by the Economic and Social Research Council) has been com... Read more
A major 4 year project is underway in Northern Ireland. Building on previous work (further information ca... Read more
Richard Velleman, a founder AFINet member, is travelling to Hong Kong in April to co-run (with Grace Leun... Read more
Jan Ligon, PhD, LCSW Georgia State University The abuse of alcohol and other drugs in the older adult po... Read more
During November 2013 Alex Copello was invited to give one of the keynote addresses at the Australasian ... Read more
This work builds on the first phase of UK Drug Policy Commission (UKDPC) family research, with a stud... Read more
Jim Orford recently made two presentations about gambling and family members at the Third International... Read more
"1 in 3 people report having heavy drinkers in their lives" and "1 in 2 people report being harmed as a... Read more
Two projects have been completed in Northern Ireland with our AFINet partners to develop and evaluate Ste... Read more
Due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic we as a Board of Trustees have taken the extremely difficult decision to postpone the second AFINet conference scheduled for 9-11 September 2020 in Rotterdam.
We have just discovered that the AFINet Membership application form has not been working for the last 6 months, due to a technical error. While it has been fixed now, all applications since May have been lost (we had assumed that the lack of applications was due to Covid!).
We are very sorry for this. If you have applied for membership and have not received a response, we would kindly ask you to re-complete and re-submit the form (to be found here: www.afinetwork.info/members/apply-for-membership). If you know of any colleagues or friends who have tried to join AFINet over this period, it would be very helpful if you could forward this information to them, and encourage them to re-apply.
The AFINet Trustees