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University of Otago

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5.04/23/2026

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Simon Adamson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological Medicine, Christchurch, at the University of Otago, Faculty of Medicine. He holds an MSc (Dist) from the University of Canterbury, a Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Psychology (DipClinPsych), and a PhD from the University of Otago. Throughout his career, he has focused on psychological medicine, particularly alcohol and drug problems. His research interests encompass the description, identification, and treatment of addictive disorders, including treatment outcomes, effectiveness, efficacy, prediction of treatment outcomes, and various methods of measuring outcomes. Adamson is affiliated with the National Addiction Centre at the University of Otago, Christchurch, where he contributes to research on substance use disorders, harm reduction, and related psychiatric comorbidities. He supervises postgraduate research on topics such as personality and addiction, consumer recovery in opioid substitution treatment, psychological adaptation to addiction, and co-existing mental health disorders with substance use.