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Membership of AFINet affords members the opportunity to be part of a global network of researchers, practitioners and those concerned with policy in effects on family members and family life of excessive alcohol or drug use, gambling, or other addictive behaviour.

Members will be able to share experiences and ideas on the subject, exchange methods and materials, and provide each other with support and encouragement.

To be a member of AFINet you should:

  • Have an active interest in research, practice or policy regarding the effects on family members and family life of excessive alcohol or drug use, gambling, or other addictive behaviour.
  • Already be engaged in international collaboration in that area of work
  • Or be actively considering such collaboration,
  • Or be seeking support or collaboration in that area of work from those in better resourced countries
  • All members should be in broad agreement with the aims of AFINet.

 

To apply for membership to AFINet, please complete our application form below. Once your application has been approved, AFINet will contact you with further details.
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All information supplied below by you will be used solely by AFINet, for the purposes of AFINet. As an AFINet member, your name, work title and country will appear in a members-only section of the AFINet website. We will not share this information with anyone unless they are associated with AFINet and we will not share any information we hold about you with anyone without your permission. We will use the contact details we have for you in order to communicate with you about AFINet business, including sending you our regular Newsletter and details of forthcoming AFINet events.

Completing the form below will be taken as positive agreement that we have your permission to hold these data.


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1. An active interest in research, practice or policy regarding the effects on family members and family life of excessive alcohol or drug use, gambling, or other addictive behaviour. If "yes", please provide details
2. Currently engaged in international collaboration in this area of work.
3. Actively considering a collaboration in this area of work.

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4. Seeking support or collaboration in this area of work in other countries.

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I understand that by becoming a member of AFINet I undertake to be part of a global network of researchers, practitioners and those concerned with policy relating to the effects on family members and family life of excessive alcohol or drug use, gambling, or other addictive behaviour and I am in agreement with the AFINet Aims. I agree that any documents downloaded from the site are for personal use only and will not be distributed without permission of the author(s).

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Technical problems with membership applications

We have just discovered that the AFINet Membership application form has not been working for the last 6 months, due to a technical error. While it has been fixed now, all applications since May have been lost (we had assumed that the lack of applications was due to Covid!).

We are very sorry for this. If you have applied for membership and have not received a response, we would kindly ask you to re-complete and re-submit the form (to be found here: www.afinetwork.info/members/apply-for-membership). If you know of any colleagues or friends who have tried to join AFINet over this period, it would be very helpful if you could forward this information to them, and encourage them to re-apply.

The AFINet Trustees