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Overview

Jim Orford is affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily psychology and medicine, with a strong focus on clinical psychology, general health professions, and epidemiology. Additional areas of study include social psychology and endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism.

Their main topics of research cover diverse social and health-related issues, including:

  • Gambling Behavior and Treatments
  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
  • Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology

Jim Orford has contributed to several recent papers, which include:

  • A public health approach to gambling regulation: countering powerful influences, 2021, The Lancet Public Health
  • Setting Limits: Gambling, Science and Public Policy-summary of results, 2020, Addiction
  • The case for developing a cohesive systems approach to research across unhealthy commodity industries, 2021, BMJ Global Health
  • 'No evidence of harm' implies no evidence of safety: Framing the lack of causal evidence in gambling advertising research, 2023, Addiction
  • Prevalence and self-rated health and depression of family members affected by addictive disorders: results of a nation-wide cross-sectional study, 2022, Addiction

Frequent co-authors who have contributed alongside Jim Orford include:

  • Rebecca Cassidy
  • Gallus Bischof
  • Richard Velleman
  • May CI van Schalkwyk
  • Mark Petticrew

The most common publication venues where Jim Orford's work appears are:

  • Addiction
  • The Lancet Public Health
  • BMJ Global Health
  • BMJ
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Jim Orford has published books as well, including an upcoming title, The Psychology Of Economic Inequality, scheduled for 2025 with Springer International Publishing.

Best Publications

  • Excessive Appetites: A Psychological View of Addictions

    Jim Orford

  • Alcoholism: a controlled trial of "treatment" and "advice".

    Griffith Edwards;Jim Orford;Stella Egert;Sally Guthrie

  • Addiction in the family is a major but neglected contributor to the global burden of adult ill-health.

    Jim Orford;Richard Velleman;Guillermina Natera;Lorna Templeton

  • Addiction as excessive appetite.

    Jim Orford

  • Sociodemographic Correlates of Internet Gambling: Findings from the 2007 British Gambling Prevalence Survey

    Mark Griffiths;Heather Wardle;Jim Orford;Kerry Sproston

  • The Experiences of Affected Family Members: a Summary of Two Decades of Qualitative Research

    Jim Orford;Richard Velleman;Alex Copello;Lorna Templeton

  • Family members affected by a close relative's addiction: The stress-strain-coping-support model

    Jim Orford;Alex Copello;Richard Velleman;Lorna Templeton

  • Coping with Alcohol and Drug Problems: The Experiences of Family Members in Three Contrasting Cultures

    Jim Orford;Guillermina Natera;Alex Copello;Carol Atkinson

  • Women's experiences of workplace bullying: changes in social relationships

    Sian E. Lewis;Jim Orford

  • Defining the online gambler and patterns of behaviour integration: evidence from the British Gambling Prevalence Survey 2010

    Heather Wardle;Alison Moody;Mark Griffiths;Jim Orford

  • Addiction and the family: is it time for services to take notice of the evidence?

    Alex Copello;Jim Orford

  • Asking the right questions in the right way: the need for a shift in research on psychological treatments for addiction.

    Jim Orford

  • Risk and Resilience: Adults Who Were the Children of Problem Drinkers

    Richard Velleman;Jim Orford

  • The families of problem drug users: a study of 50 close relatives

    Richard Velleman;Gerald Bennett;Tony Miller;Jim Orford

  • Family members of relatives with alcohol, drug and gambling problems: a set of standardized questionnaires for assessing stress, coping and strain.

    Jim Orford;Lorna Templeton;Richard Velleman;Alex Copello

  • The Rules of Interpersonal Complementarity: Does Hostility Beget Hostility and Dominance, Submission?.

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  • The clients' perspective on change during treatment for an alcohol problem: qualitative analysis of follow-up interviews in the UK Alcohol Treatment Trial.

    Jim Orford;Ray Hodgson;Alex Copello;Bev John

  • Abstinence or control: the outcome for excessive drinkers two years after consultation.

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  • Ways of coping and the health of relatives facing drug and alcohol problems in Mexico and England

    Jim Orford;Guillermina Natera;Richard Velleman;Alex Copello

  • Systems Thinking as a Framework for Analyzing Commercial Determinants of Health

    Cécile Knai;Mark Petticrew;Nicholas Mays;Simon Capewell

  • Tolerate, engage or withdraw: a study of the structure of families coping with alcohol and drug problems in South West England and Mexico City

    Jim Orford;Guillermina Natera;Jill Davies;Adriana Nava

  • PGSI and DSM-IV in the 2007 British Gambling Prevalence Survey: reliability, item response, factor structure and inter-scale agreement

    Jim Orford;Heather Wardle;Mark Griffiths;Kerry Sproston

  • Hypersexuality: implications for a theory of dependence.

    Jim Orford

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Velleman
Richard Velleman University of Bath
Christine Godfrey
Christine Godfrey University of York
Ray Hodgson
Ray Hodgson Alcohol Research UK
Mark D. Griffiths
Mark D. Griffiths Nottingham Trent University
Nancy M. Petry
Nancy M. Petry University of Connecticut
Stephen Sutton
Stephen Sutton University of Cambridge
Róbert Urbán
Róbert Urbán Eötvös Loránd University

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