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Highlights of BPS / EBPS MeetingSSPD sponsored a symposium and poster session at the recent joint meeting of the Behavioral Pharmacology Society and European Behavioural Pharmacology Society held in Boston, MA in early September. The symposium was entitled "Drug Discrimination: A Unique Tool in Drug Discovery." Both symposium and poster session were well-received. Abstracts of the presentations are published in Behavioural Pharmacology, volume 10, supplement 1, 1999. We would like to welcome our new member, Jeffrey Vivian, Ph.D., Wake Forest University School of Medicine, who was accepted for membership by the SSPD officers at the Boston meeting. SSPD Website InformationA website for SSPD has been prepared by Ian and Dominic Stolerman and it is almost ready for members to use. It will contain a statement of the aims of the society, the full by-laws, information about forthcoming meetings, and the society newsletter (which will continue to be distributed in printed format for the time being), and lots of other information that will be useful for members. Any issues relating to the site will be discussed at the SSPD business meeting at Neuroscience. One important matter upon which the views of the membership will be sought relates to the membership list. It will be possible to place the list on the website (names, addresses, telephone, fax and email). To hide the list from casual browsers who have no real interest in the list, it will be possible to provide a simple password system, with just one password used by all members. The advantages of doing it this way are ease of setting up, ease of use, and low cost; this approach will provide a very modest degree of security. An alternative approach would be to give members the option to have their contact details withheld. In such cases, the member's name only would appear in the list and no other information. This method will also be easy to implement and low in cost. Finally, a much more secure system would be possible but this would entail much more work to establish and maintain and the cost would be considerably greater. |
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