As a researcher, Prof Owen Bowden-Jones is an Honorary Professor at University College London and his research focuses on developing innovative treatments for substance use problems. He currently leads project NEPTUNE, which has brought together clinical experts to develop guidelines for emerging drugs problems. His research has been widely presented at national and international conferences including to the UK Government, European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Abuse (EMCDDA), Group of Seven (G7) meeting and the United Nations.

CNWL recognition for three CNWL Clinicians

14 December 2019

CNWL’s Dr Owen Bowden-Jones wins the Royal College of Psychiatrists Award

Dr Owen Bowden-Jones, Consultant Psychiatrist

Psychoactive Substances Inquiry

Presentation on Prescription medications improving access and reducing harm. United Nations, Vienna

28 September 2023

National Forum for Police and Crime Commissioners. Presentation on prevention of drug use.

13 September 2023

Maudsley Cannabis Peer Group. “How do I know if I have become dependent on cannabis?”

27 June 2023

British Army, Wellington Barracks: “Alcohol, drugs and behavioural addictions: An update”.

25 May 2023

RCPsych London Division Eating Disorder and substance misuse

17 March 2023

Mental Health is Health

United Nations Commission for Narcotic Drugs, Vienna 2023 

14 March 2023

 

All party parliamentary group (APPG) New Emerging drugs and risky online behaviour trends: Clinical and Policy Implications

16 January 2023, House of Commons

Royal College of Psychiatrists, Faculty of Addiction Annual Conference

April 2022

Managing Drug and Alcohol Problems in Primary Care, RCGP

March 2022

A Pilot Reporting Scheme for Harms Associated with Illicit Drugs

Faculty of Addictions Annual Scientific Conference, London, April 2017

September 2018 Project NEPTUNE: Novel Psychoactive Treatment UK Network. Warsaw, Poland

Warsaw, Poland, September 2018

Smoking, Drinking and Drugs

Eton College, May 2018

Project NEPTUNE: A UK Approach

United Nations, Vienna, Austria, March 2018

What parents need to know about substance misuse

Milton Abbey School, Dorset, March 2018

Club Drugs and Novel Psychoactive Substances

Andrew Sims Centre, Leeds, October 2017

The Parent-Child Environment: Talking about Drugs to Youth

iCAAD, Brussels, Belgium, October 2017

Reporting Illicit Drug Reactions (RIDR). A New Approach to Understanding NPS Harms.

Addiction National Conference, Leeds, May 2017 

Enhancing Inpatient Detoxification Provided by Residential Rehabilitation Services

Royal Society of Medicine, London, February 2017

Fourth International Conference on Novel Psychoactive Substances

Budapest 30 – 31 May, 2016

Joint `Action on Emerging and Existing Trends: Reducing Health Harms ssociated with Alcohol and Drugs

Guildhall, London, February, 2016

A New Look at Young People’s Health

Kings House Conference Centre, Manchester, February, 2016

Club Drugs Reviewing the Evidence for Treatment

3 November, 2015

International Society of Addiction Medicine: Congress Dundee

October, 2015

European Drugs Summer School

Summer, 2015

The Law’s Drugs Problem: The Challenge of Legal Highs

November, 2012

London Joint Working Group on Substance Use and Hepatitis C

November, 2010

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Using a pragmatically adapted, low-cost contingency management intervention to promote heroin abstinence in individuals undergoing treatment for heroin use disorder in UK drug services (PRAISE): a cluster randomised trial. Metrebian N et al. BMJ Open July 2021 11(7): e046371

July 2021

Carfentanil on the darknet: Potential scam or alarming public health threat?

A. Negri, H. Townshend, T. McSweeney, O. Angelopoulou, H. Banayoti, M. Prilutskaya, O. Bowden-Jones, O. Corazza

International Journal of Drug Policy, Volume 91, 2021,103118, ISSN 0955-3959

May 2021

Using a pragmatically adapted, low-cost contingency management intervention to promote heroin abstinence in individuals undergoing treatment for heroin use disorder in UK drug services (PRAISE): a cluster randomised trial. Metrebian N et al. BMJ Open July 2021 11(7): e046371

May 2021

 

“Hot” and “Cold” Cognition in Users of Club Drugs/Novel Psychoactive Substances. Savulich G, Bowden-Jones O, Stephenson R, Brühl AB, Ersche KD, Robbins TW and Sahakian BJ. Front. Psychiatry 2021 12:660575.

March 2021

Management of acute gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) and gamma-butyrolactone (GBL) withdrawal: use of CIWA-Ar scoring is not sufficient in determining need for benzodiazepine treatment

British Pharmacological Society, 2015

One new drug a week. Why novel psychoactive substances and club drugs need a different response from UK treatment providers

Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2014

Cambridge Textbook of Effective Treatments in Psychiatry

January, 2008