The
meeting was opened by the outgoing
president Moira Plant
1.
Approval
of minutes of year 2000 annual meeting in Oslo.
Robin
Room moved that these minutes be adopted. Seconded by Jim Rooney.
The motion was passed unanimously.
2.
Introduction of new executive and committee members.
Moira
introduced the new president (Ingeborg Rossow) and Vice President (Tom
Greenfield) and committee members (Guillermina Natera [2 year term], Kim Bloomfield, Pia
M@kel@, Sharon Wilsnack, Harald Klingemann and Marie Choquet).
It was also announced that the change to the By-Laws, separating
the offices of Secretary and Treasurer, had passed by a vote of 70-0.
Ingeborg
then assumed the chair and formally thanked the outgoing President, Vice
President (Harald Klingemann) and retiring committee members (Robin
Room, Kaye Fillmore, Martin Plant and Sturla Norland).
3.
Report on the Toronto conference
Alan
Ogborne reported on the conference on behalf of Norman Giesbrecht and
other members of the organizing committee.
The
conference had 148 participants from at least 20 countries. Thirty two
(32) attendees were given partial support from KBS funds. The final
figures for the cost of the conference are not yet in but it appears
that these were in line with the original budget.
One
hundred and ten (110) papers were presented and 76 arrived in time to be
uploaded to the conference Web site. About the same number of abstracts
arrived by the deadline set for abstracts.
As
ever a lot of work was required to process abstracts and format papers
for the Web. Abstracts and papers that arrived after the deadline and
those that did not follow the guidelines were especially troublesome.
Clearer guidelines and a stricter adherence to the published
deadlines will be recommended to future conference organizers.
4.
Report from the KBS secretary
Alan
acknowledged the hard work of the outgoing executive and retiring
committee members and indicated that an ongoing priority will be to
improve communication with members through the KBS Website. Tom
Greenfield has offered to propose that the site be hosted by the Alcohol
Research Group and he will work with the local webmaster to improve the
site and add new material. One priority will be to add information on
organizing thematic meetings. Suggestions for improvement or addictions to the Website
should be directed to Tom or Alan.
Moira
asked that members acknowledge Ron Roizen's work on the KBS Website and
this brought an enthusiastic round of applause.
5.
Report from the KBS treasurer
Trygve
reported that before the conference the society had 295 members who have
paid at least once since 1996. Ninety-three have not paid since 2000 or
earlier, while 68 have paid for 2001, 22 are paid up through 2002 and 12
are paid up through 2003. Between the Oslo and Toronto meetings Trygve
received fees from 80 people, of whom 44 were paying from personal
resources (US$15) and 36 from institutional resources (US$50).
Trygve
considered that this was a good year for KBS financially. We raised
US$6000 for the Toronto conference because many members paid
their fees. This was due to a more active approach by Trygve. More
people have signed up or renewed their membership at the conference and
Trygve will be sending reminder notices at the end of this calendar
year.
Trygve
and other members of the committee were, however, concerned that the
society will not have US$6000 to support the conference in Paris. An
increase membership fees was therefore called for.
Ingeborg
indicated that a proposal to increase individual membership fees to
US$25 (from US$15) and institutional fees to US$75 (from US$50) will be
sent to all members within the next three months.
Jacek
Moskalewicz asked why the individual fee increase was higher in
percentage terms than the institutional fee increase, and suggested
setting the latter at $85. Moira
Plant pointed out that more member joined as individual than as
institutional members. Roberta
ferrence remarked that KBS was the kindest society that she knew of, but
if only half of the members were paying their fees, it needs to get more
structured. Andrée Demers
pointed out that the fees were used to provide partial travel support to
scholars from developing societies and without access to institutional
resources. Trygve Ugland
noted that he would send e-mails reminding people of fees which were
due; he sent 90 in November, which resulted in 30 members paying up.
6.
Workshop reports
International
Research Group on Gender and Alcohol (IRGGA)
Sharon
Wilsnack reported that this will hold its 9th annual meeting
after the conference. It is an open group that currently has over 100
members from 30 countries. IRGGA has conducted a number of collaborative
analyses and projects over the years. The major project at present is
GENACIS — “Gender, Alcohol, and Culture: An International Study.”
GENACIS will involve surveys and comparative analyses of women's and
men's drinking in up to 30 different countries
using a common questionnaire developed by IRGGA members over the
past three years.
Workshop
on alcohol related crashes: how to cut them down
Moira
presented a report on this workshop on behalf of Alicia Rodriguez-Martos.
Two
sessions were held during the conference. On Sunday three papers were
presented and discussed.
The discussion focused on
identification and brief interventions. On Tuesday there was a session
on attitudes, knowledge and beliefs among health professionals working
in emergency departments.
Names
and address of participants were collected to build a network of people
interested in this topic. Anyone interested in joining the network
should send an email to Alicia: amartos@imsb.bcn.es.
The
role of qualitative research in the addictions field: experiences and
examples
Harald
Klingemann reported that two meetings were held during the conference.
The fist involved 20-25 people and the second 40-50. Points of general
interest which emerged including computer analysis, sampling and
cross-cultural research. Another workshop will be held in Paris and
there has been some talk of producing a book.
7.
Recent thematic meetings
Youth cultures and subcultures:
functions and patterns of drinking
and drug use.
Robin
Room reported that over 40 people attended this meeting in April 2001
and that everyone was very pleased with the outcome. Among other things
the meeting succeeded in bringing the British tradition of cultural
studies into contact with the field of substance use and abuse. Selected
papers will be published in Contemporary Drug Problems.
Natural
recovery
Harald
reported that a book based on this 1999 meeting is now available (H.
Klingemann et al., Promoting Self-Change from Problem Substance Use, (Kluwer,
2001, paper- & hardback) and that some papers will be published in
Substance Use and Abuse and in Addiction.
Measuring alcohol consumption
and problems
Robin reported that selected papers from this 2000 meeting
had been published in a special double issue of the Journal of Substance
Abuse (12:1-212, 2000).
8.
Future thematic meetings
Community-based
prevention research - Helsinki March 2002
A
flyer concerning this meeting was distributed by Marja Homila.
This will be the fifth in the series of these meetings under KBS
auspices. Abstracts are due October 31, 2001.
Those who did not receive this flyer can find out more by contacting
Marja:
marja.homila@stakes.fi or
Thomas Karlsson: thomas.karlsson@stakes.fi.
Qualitative
and qualitative studies of substance use over the life course –
probably in Stockholm, October 2002
Anja
Koski-J@nnes
reported on plans for this meeting. Both qualitative and
quantitative studies will be solicited.
The organizers would also like to see conceptual papers on the
historical development of the disease concept. The participation costs
will be about EU250. Abstracts will need to be submitted by May 31st
2002.
9.
Other meetings
Harald
reported that there is to be a meeting in October 2002 to mark the 100th
anniversary of Swiss Institute. The theme will be 'From Science to
Action'. The KBS coordinating committee has agreed that KBS will
cosponsor this meeting. The
provisional program is already pretty final; many of the speakers are
from the KBS.
10.
Future annual meetings
Paris
2002
AndrPe
Demers gave a report on plans for this meeting on behalf of Marie
Choquet. The meeting will be held from June 3rd to June 7th
at Val de Grâce, in the 3rd arrondissement,
at the oldest military hospital in Paris.
The meeting will be cosponsored by the Société FranHaise d’Alcologie.
Deadlines
will be: as follows:
Abstracts: February 1st
Papers: April 15th.
AndrPe
urged members to respect these deadlines.
Robin
moved that members approved the proposal to hold the next meeting in
Paris. This was seconded by Moira and approved unanimously.
Krakow
2003
Jacek
noted that he was pleased to suggest Krakow for this meeting.
He reported that this will be ten years after KBS last met in
Poland. Krakow is a beautiful old city about 300kms south or Warsaw. It
is close to the mountains and home to Poland's oldest university.
Accommodation can be found for a low as US$19-US$28.
And
beyond—
Marja
reported that she and her colleagues have offered to host 2004
conference in Helsinki.
11.
Matters arising
Jacek noted that in the past members had received more writing
communications concerning events and other issues of interest. There was
a KBS Circular, which originally came twice a year, and which was a very
useful channel of communication. Tom indicated that he saw the KBS
Website as potentially carrying more information of this kind, and that
he would look into resuming publication of something like the Circular.
12.
Other business
There
being no further business the meeting concluded with a further round of
applause in appreciation of the Toronto conference.
