Events & Ideas

December 3-6, 2023 | Tampa, FL Jack Henningfield will be attending. VIEW CONFERENCE Posters:No Indication of Abuse or Withdrawal Potential with Esmethadone (REL-1017): Results From Two Phase 3 Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trials in Patients With Major Depressive Disorder Nonclinical Studies of Abuse Potential With Dual Orexin Receptor Antagonists: Concordance With Real-World Use

October 19-20, 2023 | San Diego, CA Judy Ashworth and Ryan Lanier will be attending and participating in a panel session. VIEW CONFERENCE Panel Session:Overview of the Current Regulatory Landscape and Challenges in the Development of New Safer and Effective Analgesic Drugs

Panel Session CHAIR: Judy Ashworth, MD, Senior Vice President, Pinney Associates Panelists: Ryan Lanier, Director, Clinical Development & Abuse Liability, Pinney Associates Marc Lesnick, Ph.D., Chief Development Officer, Tris Pharma Jeff Reich, MD, Co-founder & CEO, Sparian Biosciences There is a high unmet medical need to develop new effective analgesics that offer safety advantages over… Read More

September 19-20, 2023 | Bethesda, MD Lucy Owen and Christine Sweeney will be attending. VIEW CONFERENCE

September 11-13, 2023 | London Joe Gitchell, Robyn Gougelet, Arielle Selya, and Floe Foxon will be attending and presenting. VIEW CONFERENCE Presentations:Poster #135: Updated Population-Level Counterfactual Trend Modelling to Examine the Relationship between Smoking Prevalence and E-Cigarette Use among US Adults and Adolescents Poster #158: What Substances are Adolescents Vaping? Estimating Nicotine-Specific and Marijuana-Specific Vaping… Read More

Poster #160 Authors: Gitchell J Abstract: Background: The role of explicit harm reduction approaches to tobacco smoking has been debated for decades. From the historical deception of reportedly low-tar filtered cigarettes versus actual low-toxin exposure smokeless tobacco and snus, to the current focus around e-cigarettes and other noncombustible tobacco and nicotine products, the issues and… Read More

Poster #159 Authors: Selya A, Foxon F Abstract: A major concern about e-cigarettes is that they may act as a gateway to cigarette smoking – the most harmful tobacco product – among youth; however, while there is clearly an association between e-cigarette use and smoking among youth, growing evidence supports that the association is not… Read More

Poster #158 Authors: Selya A, Kim S, Shiffman S, Gitchell JG, Foxon F Abstract: Background: The prevalence of electronic cigarette (“e-cigarettes”) use among youth has raised alarm over recent years. Vaping is usually assumed to be of nicotine, but uncertainties in survey definitions may also include non-nicotine substances which can impose different risks (particularly marijuana)…. Read More