Sussex Addiction Research & Intervention Centre

SARIC

Last year, nearly 3 million people in the UK used illegal drugs, including cannabis, cocaine, amphetamines, ketamine, and heroin
Tens of thousand people in the UK abuse prescription medications containing opioids, barbiturates, or benzodiazepines
Every year more than 80 thousands of people in the UK die because of alcohol or tobacco-related causes
In the past three decades we have learned a lot about the neurobiological effects of addictive drugs and identified some of the risk factors implicated in addiction …
… but we still do not know what exactly is wrong with the brains and minds of addicts and, most important, why it went wrong
Much progress has been made in the treatment of drug addictions …
… but therapeutic options are still limited especially for certain types of addiction
The goal of SARIC is to bring real world clinical problems and insights into cutting-edge addiction research and translate research findings back into intervention