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Marilena Guareschi, PhD

Executive Secretary
AU-CNS/EUROPAD
Pietrasanta (LU), Italy

Marilena Guareschi was born in Pietrasanta (LU), Italy on September 2nd, 1954.
She graduated in Philosophy, with maximum grade cum laude, at the University of Pisa (Italy) in 1978 and in Psychology at the University of Padua (Italy) in 1996.
In 1983 she was appointed ‘data coordinator’ for pharmacological trials at the Institute of Psychiatry of the University of Pisa.
She has been a founding member of the Association for the Application of Neuroscientific Knowledge to Social Aims (AU-CNS), of which she has also been Executive Secretary since its foundation in 1994.
Since 1999 she has been Editorial Coordinator of Heroin Addiction and Related Clinical Problems, the official journal of EUROPAD and of the World Federation for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence (WFTOD).
Since 2000 has always been in charge of the organizing secretariat of the EUROPAD conferences.
From 2013 to 2016 she has been coordinator of a 2nd level Master Program in “Pharmacological and Behavioral Dependencies” held at the University of Pisa.
From 2018 to 2019 she has been coordinator of a 2nd level Master Program in “Dual Disorder” held at the University of Pisa.
Since January 2012 she has been ‘Program Leader’ of a Pilot Project promoted by the Denver Health and Hospital Authority (Colorado, USA), in collaboration with EUROPAD, which had the aim of assessing overall rates of prescription drug misuse in various European countries.
In 2014 the project became a permanent surveillance, and ended in July 2019.
She has been also ‘Site Investigator’ of an online Survey of Non-Medical Use of Prescription Drugs (NMU-Rx) in Italy, which objectives were to study rates of non-medical use of prescription drugs among the general population, in collaboration with the Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center (Colorado, USA). The survey started in June 2017 and ended in 2021.

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