World Psychiatric Association Congress

On October 16, Irma Kirtadze, associate professor of Ilia State University and chief researcher of Alternative Georgia, presented the preliminary results of a general population study on the use of psychoactive drugs and gambling at the World Psychiatric Association Congress. A full study report will be available soon.

Alternative Georgia’s researcher Tamar Mgebrishvili shared with the audience a study examining the impact of COVID-19 on drug use behavior. The publication, published in the Harm Reduction Journal, can be found here:

https://harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12954-022-00601-z