World Conference on Addiction Psychiatry November 29-30, 2021 Madrid, Spain

Gabriele Fischer works as a psychiatrist & neurologist and is head of the Addiction Clinic at the Medical University of Vienna. She is involved in many epidemiological clinical and psychopharmacological studies in the field of substance use disorder and non-substance-related addictions including the topic of co-morbidities. She has over 150 peer-reviewed publications. She is, inter alia, a member of the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug addiction (EMCDDA) and the commission director of the Austrian Ombudsman Board dedicated to improving human rights in vulnerable populations. Dr.Fischer is also an expert on the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) of the Council of Europe.

Gender differences, Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity, Buprenorphine, Evidence-Based Medicine, Gambling, Methadone, Morphine, Opioid-Related Disorders, Pregnancy, Substance Abuse Treatment Centers, Substance Abuse, Intravenous, Substance-Related Disorders

Sam Vaknin is Visiting Professor of Psychology, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia, and Professor of Finance and Psychology in CIAPS (Centre for International Advanced and Professional Studies). He is the author of Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited and other books about personality disorders. His work is cited in hundreds of books and dozens of academic papers. He spent the past 6 years developing Cold Therapy: a treatment modality for Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). Over the years, with dozens of volunteers, he found that it was effective with clients suffering from a major depressive episode as well.

his research interest focuses on Personality disorders