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Personal profile
Research interests
- Epidemiology of substance use;
- Substance-related mortality;
- Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS)
- Co-morbidity;
- History of drug addiction;
- Drug control;
- Public health;
- Patient & medicines safety
Teaching specialisms
- Epidemiology of substance use;
- Substance-related mortality;
- Co-morbidity;
- History of drug addiction; Drug control;
- Research methodology
Commercial and public engagement
Expert on Drug-Related Mortality for UK Focal Point of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction 2000-15; and advisor on drug availability indicators
http://www.nwph.net/ukfocalpoint/
Member of UK Drugs Early Warning System
http://www.nwph.net/ukfocalpoint/
Co-opted Member of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs' Novel Psychoactive Substances Committee
Co-opted Member of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs' Technical Committee (from February 2016)
Member of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drug's Drug-Related Deaths Working Group (from June 2016)
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/drugs/acmd/
Member of Scottish Government's NPS Expert Group Link
Member of Hertfordshire County Community Safety Unit's NPS Working Group
Adviser to the National Programme on Substance Abuse Deaths (NPSAD) based at St George's, University of London Link
Member of LTG (London Toxicology Group)
http://ltg.uk.net/
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Member (honorary) of the London Addiction Consultant Psychiatrists forum
Overview
John Corkery worked for the Home Office for 30 years in a range of policy areas including Immigration & Nationality, Prison Department, Fire Service Training & Research, and from 1987 onwards in the Research, Development and Statistics Directorate on topics including Courts & Financial Penalties, Firearms, Capital Punishment, Race & the Criminal Justice System, but especially Drug Statistics.
Specific Home Office research posts included:
Senior Research Officer, 16 June 2003 - 4 March 2005: International & Race Statistics Section - responsible for race statistics on the Criminal Justice System in England & Wales, and on ethnic monitoring in that connection. Collating data from various sources and compiling an annual Command Paper to go to Parliament.
Research Officer, 1 September 2000 to 15 June 2003: Drugs & Alcohol Research Unit - Collection, validation, analysis and publication of statistics on Notified Drug Addicts, Drug Seizures & offenders, etc. Manager of project by Forensic Science Service on the chemical and statistical profiling of heroin, an d for the National Statistics Review of Drug Seizure and Offender Statistical Series.
Executive Officer (ADP), 5 January 1994 to 31 August 2000: Crime & Criminal Justice Unit - Drugs Research and Statistics Section - as above, plus Scientific Procedures to to April 1996.
During this time he studied part-time with the Open University, and was awarded BA Hons (2:1) in 1988 and a MSc in Advanced Educational & Social Research Methods. This was followed by the award of a MPhil in the Sociology of Religion and Onomastics by King's College London in 2001. John was Senior Research Fellow in Drug Epidemiology, International Centre for Drug Policy (ICDP), St George's, University of London from March 2005 to August 2010.Programme Manager of National Programme on Substance Abuse Deaths from 7 March 2005 to present & Volatile Substance Abuse Mortality Project from April 2009. He joined the ICDP on a full-time basis in March 2005, having previously held an Honorary Research Fellowship since 1997.Honorary Research Fellow in Drug Epidemiology from 1 September 2010, following cessation of Government funding for his post. John joined the School of Pharmacy, University of Hertfordshire, as Research Lead in April 2011.
Management responsibilities
Research Co-ordinator, Department of Pharmacy UH April 2011 to December 2014; Programme Manager - National Programme on Substance Abuse deaths & Volatile Substance Abuse mortality register based at International Centre for Drug Policy, St George's University of London (2005-2010)
Project supervision
Programme Manager, National Programme on Substance Abuse Deaths & Volatile Substance Abuse mortality register (2005-10)
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First death involving 4-Fluoroethylphenidate (4F-EPH): case-report, user experiences, and review of the related literature
Corkery, J. M. & Schifano, F., 1 Dec 2022, In: Academic Forensic Pathology. 12, 4, p. 149-166 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Knowledge and use of over-the-counter drugs in Italy: a survey-based study in the general population
Chiappini, S., Ceci, F., Mosca, A., Di Carlo, F., Burkauskas, J., Pettorruso, M., Martinotti, G., Guirguis, A., Corkery, J. M., Scherbaum, N., Schifano, F. & di Giannantonio, M., 6 Oct 2022, In: Current Neuropharmacology. 21, 1, p. 133-141Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Alprazolam-related deaths in Scotland, 2004-2020
Corkery, J. M., Guirguis, A., Chiappini, S., Martinotti, G. & Schifano, F., 27 Sep 2022, In: Journal of Psychopharmacology. 36, 9, p. 1020-1035 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Designer Benzodiazepines’ Activity on Opioid Receptors: A Docking Study
Catalani, V., Botha, M., Corkery, J. M., Guirguis, A., Vento, A. & Schifano, F., 22 Sep 2022, In: Current Pharmaceutical Design. 28, 32, p. 2639-2652 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Contribution of drugs to drownings in Scotland, 1996-2020
Corkery, J., Martinotti, G. & Schifano, F., 30 Aug 2022, In: Current Neuropharmacology. CN-2022-0158.R1.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review